Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985 . |
| 2 | Armed with my definition of a manager and my time-span measuring instrument , I then bumped into the second surprising finding — repeatedly confirmed — about layering in managerial hierarchies : the boundaries between successive managerial layers occur at certain specific time-span increments , just as ice changes to water and water to steam at certain specific temperatures . |
| 3 | We found in the first covert and then twice more , I ca n't remember so many good runs in a day before , not all at once . ’ |
| 4 | Holland I sank before the first nuclear tests and was shielded by the sea from radiation . |
| 5 | As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father . |
| 6 | Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) . |
| 7 | In 1930 he presided at the eleventh International Veterinary Congress in London . |
| 8 | At the decade 's start everything was gloom and doom , cutbacks the order of the day since in 1979 the number of commuters going into London dropped for the tenth successive year . |
| 9 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 10 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 11 | His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) . |
| 12 | Zhelev 's victory came in the second round run-off , when he won 53 per cent of the vote against 47 per cent for Velko Valkanov , an independent supported by the ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party . |
| 13 | With its tirades against the ‘ unnatural alliance ’ between capitalism and Bolshevism , it appealed to the last remaining hope — the belief in the miracle of a split between the eastern and western allies and a new alliance between the Reich and the West against Bolshevism . |
| 14 | I knew an immovable object when I saw it , and I retreated through the first sleeping car , where grooms in T-shirts lolled in open day compartments ( shut off by heavy felt curtains for sleeping ) , on my way to consult with the Chinese chef in the forward dome car 's kitchen . |
| 15 | We have still to mention the following , whose contributions arrived after the last published list : Pete Silverton , Pat O'Neill , M How , Brad Hatton , W McColl and William Gibson . |
| 16 | He showed in the first official Surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1925 and the following year he had his first solo show . |
| 17 | This disendowment of a loyal servant is reminiscent of Edward 's shabby treatment of John Neville in 1470 and had similar consequences : Neville rebelled at the first real opportunity and the Howards backed Gloucester in 1483 . |
| 18 | This disendowment of a loyal servant is reminiscent of Edward 's shabby treatment of John Neville in 1470 and had similar consequences : Neville rebelled at the first real opportunity and the Howards backed Gloucester in 1483 . |
| 19 | I had thought that if you were not following with a score to marvel at Rattle 's ability to achieve those dynamics so accurately , you would probably feel alienated until you arrived at the next big moment . |
| 20 | That eventful first full year of 1908 finished with the second Annual General Meeting in October and the presentation of the First Annual Report and Financial Statement — copies of both have luckily survived , as has the bondholders ' account which deals with the course and clubhouse construction . |
| 21 | Peter Bassett , from Chelsea , said that the present economic difficulties bore no relation to that which pertained under the last Labour government when the country had to be bailed out by the International Monetary Fund . |
| 22 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 23 | In 1578 he subscribed to the first unsuccessful colonizing voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | Debate on the all-important , but heavily traditionalist , schema on the Church began at the 31st general congregation on 1 December . |
| 25 | On Sunday , the racing starts with the Support class followed by the first Open race , then the second 125–200cc , the 600cc , the Junior ( 250–350–400cc ) followed by the second Classic race , and the Enkalon Grand Final which sees most of the riders on the line and McCallen out to repeat his win of last year . |
| 26 | The mayor , the mayoress and an obscure royal rode in the first sleek open limousine . |
| 27 | She started as the first hired staff person . |
| 28 | As Holly , tired to death , stumbled along the last long stretch , a backpacked figure appeared in the distance which looked like his own image coming to meet him . |
| 29 | It has gone in repaying the overseas debt that we inherited from the last Labour Government . |
| 30 | The strained atmosphere never survived beyond the first trickling bouquet from the roasting bird , stuffed pot-bellied with chestnuts . |