Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believe it or not , the society has now been in existence for a year and subscriptions became due on the 16th of March . |
| 2 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 3 | Now it was replaced by an administrative , legal , and organizational unity , which first became possible in the twelfth century as a result of the development of the administrative , legal and scholastic instruments of government . |
| 4 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 5 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 6 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |
| 7 | Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth . |
| 8 | The Soviets , as shown by declining equipment orders since 1976 , have themselves become more careful in weighing the balance , and have lost much of their earlier enthusiasm , as Brezhnev made clear to the Twenty-Sixth Party Congress of 1981 : |
| 9 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 10 | This invention turned out to be ahead of its time ; U-shaped grooves remained normal until 1939 , and Packman-type cutters only became universal after the Second World War . |
| 11 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 12 | Rooms gaped empty on the next landing , their doors gone for firewood , paper stripped and plaster crumbling away from the lath walls . |
| 13 | The worst wildlife depletion occurred prior to the Second World War before conservation was even recognised . |
| 14 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 15 | I think I came unstuck at the last fence |
| 16 | BRITAIN 'S most bitter boxing rivals bawled it out during a chance encounter in London yesterday when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank came face-to-face for the first time in 25 months since their epic world title fight . |
| 17 | But it became obvious on the next pitch that even had I been so inspired we would not have progressed much further . |
| 18 | The wide gulf between these approaches reveals the extent to which the relation between theological and historical study became problematical through the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | But for most States , that only became feasible in the nineteenth century with the development of popular participation . |
| 20 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 21 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 22 | From there , he became involved with the first commercial bungee jumping company , and brought the idea back home . |
| 23 | ‘ I sometimes wonder why you became involved in the first place . ’ |
| 24 | Where the third estate became powerful in the eighteenth century — as in Great Britain , in France , and in the United States — nationalism found its expression predominantly , but never exclusively , in political and economic changes . |
| 25 | Connor McCaffrey ( 18 ) was taking the lift to his room at Queen 's University halls of residence when it became stuck between the third and fourth floors . |
| 26 | The ultimate clinical course of the colitis became evident during the first year of the study and there was no difference between the one year analysis and the final analysis ( Table II ) performed after a mean follow up of 2.8 years in the placebo group and 3.0 years in the cyclosporin group . |
| 27 | Well , you 've heard the story of how your mother got soaked on the third tee in a downpour . |
| 28 | As we have seen , the internal nationalist tensions of the Austro-Hungarian empire became severe in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity . |
| 30 | Graphite mining was another industry which became important in the second half of the nineteenth century . |