Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh God you have n't , have you heard about the fifth year toilet yet ? |
| 2 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 3 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 4 | The process of post-mortem decomposition has been traced through the ninth century . |
| 5 | In the report the former President , Chiang Kai-shek was criticized for the first time for failing to punish the officials responsible for the massacre . |
| 6 | Filled for the first time in twenty years , Lake Eyre became a rich source of food , attracting tens of thousands of birds whose closest usual breeding area is five hundred miles to the south . |
| 7 | THE long-mocked idea of reparations to compensate black Americans for the slavery experienced by their ancestors is now before the US Congress , and its supporters say the $1.25 billion package to compensate Japanese-Americans who were interned during the second world war has created a legal precedent . |
| 8 | A few years ago Japanese-Americans were compensated for being interned during the second world war , and some ( mostly white ) people have begun to point out that blacks have yet to be compensated for centuries of slavery . |
| 9 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |
| 10 | When stopped for the first offence , he claimed the cruise control on his BMW was set at 98mph . |
| 11 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 12 | Can you say why the intervention must be stopped for the second baseline ? |
| 13 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 14 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 15 | Each party to the conference , including the Palestinian representation , was understood to have received during the second half of October a separate " letter of assurances ' from the US government . |
| 16 | Only within the last 20 to 25 years has there even been an identifiable cohort of ageing disabled adults ; first , life expectancy for many types of impairments prior to this was low ; second , people who became disabled as a result of injuries received during the Second World War are now entering older age ; third , many children and young adults disabled as a result of the polio epidemics of the late 1940s and early 1950s are now in their 50s or older . |
| 17 | Nor should it be forgotten , as Professor Orth has pointed out , that in 1799 penalties were prescribed for the first time for workmen as a class , not for hatters or paper makers as a special group ; in other words , the language of the act was concerned with a horizontal social division , not with the reconciliation of difference within the vertical structure of a craft . |
| 18 | On Oct. 25 Costa Rica was ratified as the 100th member of the General Treaty on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 19 | It was stripped of this status when its majority Tatar population was deported to Central Asia , accused of having collaborated during the Second World War with the Nazi German occupiers . |
| 20 | During the relaying of this track , the Marton trams operated in a complete circle , returning to Talbot Square via Royal Oak and Lytham Road , while the St. Annes blue cars were diverted for the first time to the Promenade at Talbot Square . |
| 21 | A 7 day tour to Poland , open to CIT members , spouses , and colleagues has been arranged for the first week of July , boasting a programme , both transport orientated and cultural . |
| 22 | This was the end of the first visit and a date , 10 days away , was arranged for the next visit . |
| 23 | The whole of Ramsay 's Edinburgh-Rome-London career is examined for the first time , with over one hundred exhibits , including many of his fine drawings . |
| 24 | In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago . |
| 25 | More detail is given for the first part on document preparation systems as this has been developed into the HyperCard system described below . |
| 26 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 27 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 28 | The new date for the first round had been announced on Feb. 4 , when new provisional dates were also given for the second round ( March 8 ) and the two rounds of the presidential elections ( March 22 and April 5 ) . |
| 29 | Ivan 's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans . |
| 30 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |