Example sentences of "[num] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As these family dramas were played out around Low Birk Hatt farm and the Hauxwell family battled against the twin effects of an overpriced heavily mortgaged farm , and an agricultural depression which presaged the deep national depression of the thirties the other people in Baldersdale coped with their lives . |
| 2 | The first Australian team was South Sydney , named the Rabbitohs these days , because in the hard times of the Thirties the sand-dune dwellers of that part of the city subsisted by rabbit hunting . |
| 3 | When the destroyers , HMS Volage and HMS Saumares , ran into Albanian mines while passing legitimately through the Corfu channel between Albania and Corfu , 44 men had been killed ; in 1948 the International Court of Justice at the Hague had ruled that the Albanian government should pay £843,947 compensation . |
| 4 | In 1275 the first statute of Westminster spoke of Edward 's concern to improve the lot of both the church and the realm generally : the statute was issued |
| 5 | Eventually in 1275 the first Statute of Westminster appears to have provided that the ravishment of any woman was an offence punishable with a penalty of two years ' imprisonment and ransom and in 1285 the second Statute of Westminster turned this into a capital offence . |
| 6 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 7 | In 1875 the notorious Duchess of Sutherland , responsible for some of the most brutal Clearances , was in London with the Duke lionising Mr Moody . |
| 8 | By November 1934 the conciliatory attitude of the Communist International had caused the Labour and Socialist International to modify its earlier warning against entering into United Front agreements with national Communist Parties . |
| 9 | As late as 1934 the New Survey of London Life and Labour was opining that ‘ a large proportion , perhaps a majority , of London working class families are still unable to reach this very modest standard [ a week 's holiday ] and have to be content with day outings on Bank Holidays or Sundays ’ . |
| 10 | In 1934 the British members of the NATPS took another step along this road when , after talking with officials of America 's National Association of Creditmen , they planned to form an ‘ Institute of Creditmen ’ , a body of individuals , which came into being in April 1939 based in London but with local societies all over Britain . |
| 11 | Thus , the final decision , announced at the end of 1982 , reprieved teacher training in one polytechnic and two colleges of higher education by increasing by 500 the total number of training places scheduled for 1985 . |
| 12 | By the year 1203 the casual assembly at Harborough was sufficiently well established and viable to attract the notice of the Crown — ever on the look-out for revenue — and the infant township was called upon to pay three marks into the Exchequer for the right to hold a regular weekly market . |
| 13 | 15.11 The different consequences of an expert 's decision and an |
| 14 | 1.5 The timeous reporting of incidents of violence or harassment is important and employees who are subjected to such incidents must complete the Department 's report form . |
| 15 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |
| 16 | In Scotland , Irish imports were banned , and after the Union in 1707 the total ban on European imports extended to Scotland and at the same time free trade between England and Scotland was allowed . |
| 17 | 2.4 The Irrelevant Rise of Scientific Medicine |
| 18 | In June 1950 the Daily Express described him as ‘ at 32 the Royal College of Art 's youngest teacher , a brilliant exhibitioner in London and New York , and one of our most sought-after magazine illustrators ’ . |
| 19 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |
| 20 | 17.22 The full development of both reading and writing in the secondary years requires a broad definition of text to encompass both literary and non literary forms . |
| 21 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 22 | Thus in Figure 18–1 the efficient level of capacity might be Q if the weighted average of P 2 and c is equal to . |
| 23 | 2.40 The interesting thing about this particular case is that all the members of the House of Lords adopted a different approach from each other in assessing damages . |
| 24 | In 1986 the poorest 20% of households received less than half the average final income , whilst the richest 20% received nearly twice the national average . |
| 25 | Early in 1986 the strategic sensitivity of the Mediterranean region was brought into sharper focus in East-West exchanges . |
| 26 | On 26 January 1986 the first protest against the proposed lignite mining took place when over 2,000 people marched from Moortown school to the Old Cross at Ardboe where they held a rally . |
| 27 | From 1980 to 1986 the annual rate of growth averaged c . |
| 28 | Between 1976 and 1986 the average error in the Treasury 's forecasting of the PSBR ( whether negative or positive ) was £2.3 billion , and in the 1983 edition of the Treasury 's Financial Statement and Budget Report it was estimated that the average error in forecasting the public sector borrowing requirement for the year ahead was ofthe order of 1.5 per cent of GDP . |
| 29 | In 1986 the European market for value-added network services was worth $900 million — with over 60 per cent of this in the two most deregulated larger markets , Britain and France , and only 16 per cent in West Germany and Italy combined . ’ |
| 30 | Between 1976 and 1986 the total number of one parent families increased by 35 per cent . |