Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 2 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 3 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 4 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 5 | Over 2400 JS pensioners gathered together for the 45th JS Veterans Reunions on March 29 , April 5 and 26 — the event being organised on three days for the second time due to the large number of participants from all corners of the country . |
| 6 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 7 | Divinity degrees require some study in each of the departments listed below in the first two years of the course . |
| 8 | Notice how the sunset and the greeting are welded together in the last stanzas and are transformed into the endless journey and ‘ human sweetness ’ of the last three lines . |
| 9 | Pauper apprenticeship , like child labour in general , was not a particular novelty of the factory system , although its use in coal mining seems to have developed only in the nineteenth century and to have been largely localised to the Black Country . |
| 10 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 11 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 12 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 13 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 14 | The identification with the ‘ home town ’ ( furusato ) was carried on into the next , urban-born generation . |
| 15 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 16 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 17 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 18 | Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net . |
| 19 | The M.wt. of proteins N-terminally deleted down to the 73rd , 205th and 356th residue were 69 , 56 and 27kDa , respectively . |
| 20 | What has been er what has been pleasing is that a n a number of the people who 've come in on the last two or three years or so er are younger people , people in their er late teens or twenties . |
| 21 | Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days . |
| 22 | Half of the extra cash will be forthcoming only if projects of sufficient quality to take up the whole £2 million come in by the next deadline for grants on 1 April . |
| 23 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 24 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
| 25 | Do n't forget — the £22,250 Extra Prize ( which you may already have won ) and the £27,750 ‘ Early Bird' Prize can be claimed only within the next SEVEN days . |
| 26 | Resettlement outside the region should be considered only in the last resort . |
| 27 | In 1860 eleven independent Cumbrian rifle corps were grouped together as The 1st Admin Battalion of Cumberland Rifle Volunteers . |
| 28 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 29 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 30 | It was the Saint Mary 's window though , which was considered best for the first class stamp . |