Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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1 | The policies of the Fabians were described by Beatrice Webb during the 1890s as ‘ essentially collective ownership wherever practicable ; collective regulation everywhere else ; collective provision according to need for all the impotent and sufferers ; and collective taxation in proportion to wealth ’ . |
2 | Women heard about the different educational method used in the five phrenological schools that had beer founded by William Ellis in the 1850s . |
3 | Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball . |
4 | There will still be a strong North-East contingent , however , including Edwards in the triple jump , Colin Walker in the 5,000 metres and Tony Morrell in the 1500 metres . |
5 | Someone who had worked closely with Ian Paisley in the 1950s claimed that he had once joked that the only way they would get anywhere would be if they went to gaol for the Protestant cause . |
6 | There were modest alternatives available to an antislavery readership but they either propounded the outlook of a minority tendency as did the Anti-Slavery Advocate , edited by the Irish Garrisonian Richard Webb in the 1850s , or had a predominantly local circulation as was likely with the short-lived Anti-Slavery Watchman of Manchester produced by the Garrisonian group around George Thompson and his son-in-law F. W. Chesson , or propounded a particular remedy for slavery in the case of the Quaker Richardson family in Newcastle through the Slave 's stress on the free produce movement . |
7 | The preaching of the Wesleyan Morley Punshon in the 1850s was described as follows : ‘ After the text was announced there was a kind of subdued rustling and expectancy … |
8 | Historical Society , Good Templar Hall , Hamilton Road , 8pm , Dr ATQ Stewart on the 1798 Rebellion in Co Down . |
9 | A koka down against East Germany 's Torsten Brechot , who threw Neil Adams in the 1988 Olympics , he gained a yuko ( five points ) with a rolling sacrifice throw three seconds from time . |
10 | Andrew Sarris accepted that , ‘ By following up the glamorous Graduate with the dreggiest drop-out imaginable , Dustin Hoffman has achieved his aim of not becoming the Andy Hardy of the sixties and seventies . ’ |
11 | MILLWALL boss Mick McCarthy was angry with the sending off of teenager Andy Roberts in the 1–0 defeat at Bristol Rovers . |
12 | Hero of the series would be Ian Chesterton , an everyday individual catapulted , like Richard Hannay in The Thirty Nine Steps , from suburban normality into a fight for survival , armed only with wits , ingenuity and physical prowess . |
13 | He had fought in the Boer War and he was John Buchan 's model for Richard Hannay in the Thirty-Nine Steps . |
14 | When completed the Breda will be painted as I-ABCT , the aircraft flown by Lt Andrea Zotti at the 1932 Cleveland National Air Races , and will be displayed inverted . |
15 | [ That this House welcomes the public announcement by Her Majesty 's Government of the identity of the new head of MI5 ; but calls on Her Majesty 's Government to make a full statement about the role of Stella Rimington , in particular in connection with the activities of Mr. David Hart during the 1984 miners ' strike . ] |
16 | Admittedly there 's nothing else as inane as the tale of Froggie and Miss Mousey among the 13 tracks on Good As I Been To You ( Columbia ) — but neither is there anything actually written by Dylan . |
17 | Rees-Mogg 's answer to the question of why his name had such appeal for Downing Street during the eighties has an undramatic plausibility about it . |
18 | In the early hours of 18 July , Franco sent a telegram from Las Palmas to the eight regional headquarters of the army in mainland Spain and to thirty-one other garrisons . |
19 | Big Tweedy 's was a replica of the goal scored by Carlos Alberto in the 1970 World Cup Final so he is walking around feeling very pleased with himself this morning ! ’ |
20 | The idea was subsequently revived by Neil Kinnock after the 1987 election in modified form which allowed local union branches to retain a voice in the selection process . |
21 | She is the only pop star of any sex who has been shrewd enough to re-invent herself successfully at 18- months interval since David Bowie in the Seventies . |
22 | Challenging strongly under Richard Quinn at the two furlong pole , Spring briefly looked set to collect the prestigious Group One prize , but failed to quicken . |
23 | These majorities in the legislature were only marginally less favourable to the president than those enjoyed by Lyndon Johnson after the 1964 election . |
24 | The tension between the ideas of nationalism and of socialism , and the great strength of the former , can also be seen in other , somewhat different contexts ; in Quebec , for example , the rise of the Parti Quebecois in the 1960s almost certainly owed more to its nationalism than to the social democratic aspects of its programme . |
25 | Howard ( 43 ) earned the tag ‘ Fearless Fred ’ when , after sending off Australian David Codey in the 1987 World Cup , he dismissed three more internationals in 1990 — Kevin Moseley , of Wales , Frenchman Alain Carminati and Andre Stoop , of Namibia . |
26 | The outside-half thereby became only the second player , after Neil Bennett in the 1970s , to score 300 points in a season for Bedford . |
27 | Since the work of S. S. Stevens in the 1930s and later , it has been recognized that , although the Weber-Fechner Law holds for many sorts of sensory experience , the exponent varies widely ; nevertheless , the principle of a quantitative correlation between external stimulus , neural activity and experienced sensation remains intact and now appears to be well-established . |
28 | Right : David Cook below the 170 foot unclimbed wall . |
29 | Right : David Cook below the 170 foot unclimbed wall . |
30 | I played six versions of this song as comparison , but the only singer on record who really ‘ gets ’ it is the veteran Trude Hesterberg on the 1958 Berlin recording . |