Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination . |
| 2 | Palatinate of Durham Within the Department of Palaeography of the University of Durham , established in 1948 for the promotion of the study of manuscript material mainly from the northern counties , there are major collections dating from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries . |
| 3 | Despite US-European commercial rivalry , the American hopes of 1948 for the creation of a stable , thriving , anti-communist Europe had arguably been fulfilled . |
| 4 | He subsequently took out a number of patents in these two fields , the most valuable being in 1875 for the making of copper rollers for calico printing . |
| 5 | Canada 's Ray Stewart was alone in second place on 136 while the defending champion , Tom Watson , was eight off the pace after a second-round 68 . |
| 6 | It began trading in 1971 as the subsidiary of a Germany company before being bought over by its management team in 1987 . |
| 7 | The Republic of Zaïre ( known until 1971 as the Republic of the Congo ) , became independent from Belgium in June 1960 . |
| 8 | The Republic of Zaïre ( known until 1971 as the Republic of the Congo ) became independent from Belgium in June 1960 . |
| 9 | The red jacket of C/Sgt Nicholl was acquired from his descendants by the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside in 1971 for the collection of the King 's Regiment . |
| 10 | This point is picked up by both Gregory and Fredegar , who describe the later Frankish invasion of Burgundy in 523 as the prosecution of Chlothild 's bloodfeud against her uncle 's family . |
| 11 | Shanks 's name is permanently associated with the system of vats , known as ‘ Shanks 's vats ’ , introduced in 1861 for the extraction of the soda from black ash in the Leblanc industry for the production of alkali , but these were never the subject of a patent . |
| 12 | Aunt Harriet Craven had been married to a politician , a Cabinet Minister , so that always their Surrey house was full of weekend guests , men strolling in twos and threes about the lawn before luncheon , tall and important , and their lady wives , as Eleanor must learn to call them , in drooping hats . |
| 13 | Alistair Campbell will be chasing the 25 runs he needs to reach 500 for the season with club delighted by his contribution on and off the field . |
| 14 | Lion Cavern , on the other hand , is 12–1 for the race with Ladbrokes , while Hills quote him 6–1 ‘ with a run . ’ |
| 15 | The year before they had taken the League title for the third time running , becoming the second , and last , club to do the hat-trick , after a season that saw Highbury 's record crowd — 73,295 for the game against Sunderland in March 1935 . |
| 16 | This body was founded in 1869 for the purpose of publishing not only the manuscripts of the heraldic visitations but other ‘ inedited ’ documents of a related nature . |
| 17 | While still in London she worked for many other causes , campaigning from 1869 for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts and organizing relief for the refugees from Turkish atrocities against the Bulgars in 1876 . |
| 18 | The Data Protection Registrar , in publicising a closing date of May 1986 for the receipt of registrations , had no idea how many data users ought to be registering ; in the event the flow of registrations was far slower than had been hoped , but by the end of 1986 it was clear that the higher guesses were more likely to be right . |
| 19 | The applicants contemplate use of the procedures in sections 234 to 236 of the Act of 1986 for the purpose of obtaining information , but those powers are only available to the applicants if they are ‘ office holders , ’ a term defined as including administrative receivers : see section 234(1) of the Act of 1986 . |
| 20 | The image of modernism as artefact is in this sense a totalizing image using the project of art as its means of accomplishing such totality ( compare Gell 1986 for the ability of the commodity to perform this function in a non-industrial context ) . |
| 21 | In short , there is no clear anti-racist equivalent of girl-centred schooling , or indeed girl-friendly schooling ( see Weiner , 1986 for the distinction between these two approaches ) . |
| 22 | The landlord hereby demises unto the Tenant ALL THAT messuage or dwelling-house with the outbuildings and garden attached thereto and forming part thereof known as Number 10 Downing Lane Old Fableland in the County of Humberside which premises are outlined in red on the Plan annexed to these presents EXCEPT AND RESERVING AND SUBJECT to the exceptions and reservations set out in the Schedule hereto TO HOLD the same unto the Tenant from the 25th day of December 1986 for the term of seven years PAYING therefore the net yearly rent of £2500 clear of all deductions by equal quarterly instalments commencing on the 25th day of December 1986 next and thereafter on the usual quarter days . |
| 23 | Sutton Manor was built during the 1820s as the residence of a retired British Indian Governor . |
| 24 | And Richard Ellmann , in New Approaches to Ezra Pound ( 1969 ) , names 1925 as the year in which the two poets , with their respective wives , were together in Sicily . |
| 25 | Builder and councillor Cuthbert Joseph Todd presented The Pierremont Vase to the town in July 1925 as the plaque on the fountain base notes . |
| 26 | The data on applications at the head of this section can be checked against the information in Figure 2.4 for the Polytechnic as a whole . |
| 27 | Thus entries for , say , the year 1680 will not end at 31 December but continue through January , February and most of March 1681 ; sometimes they will be written as 1680/1 for the period between 1 January and 25 March , and it is as well for the local and family historian to adopt that convention or else he will get in a hopeless muddle . |
| 28 | The 1990-91 annual report of the Reserve Bank of India ( the central bank ) named the main task of monetary policy in 1991-92 as the containment of inflation . |
| 29 | 29 year old Steven Mynott was sentenced to life in 1980 for the murder of a 54 year old man . |
| 30 | The Laplacian derivation of the response of a series resonant circuit comprising resistance R , inductance L and capacitance C , to an e.m.f. suddenly applied at time , is worthy of comparison with the direct derivation of the same response carried out in section 4.5 through the solution of appropriate differential equations . |