Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The favourite still seemed to be going well enough , however , and the adoring masses were not particularly worried as the leading group — Ten of Spades and Desert Orchid , with Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin close behind — thundered down towards the third last fence . |
| 2 | In other words , there are marvellous projects going on which really stimulate the interest of everybody , and it 's , the Engineering Council 's still trying to push them along into the twenty first century itself . |
| 3 | As you approach the time of competition , begin ‘ interval training ’ in your aerobic band by working very hard to raise the pulse rate almost into the anaerobic threshold , then easing up to drop the pulse rate down into the lower third of the band . |
| 4 | The par-five 13th , along with the long 15th , is probably the key , where scores can be made or broken . |
| 5 | Like Denny , Eamon McAuley came in from the cold last night for a good win ( pts 6 ) over Manchester visitor Russell Davidson . |
| 6 | An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century . |
| 7 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 8 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 9 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 10 | The next time I 'm going to be in my office will be a week next Tuesday , as I , you know , I 'm due to arrive in on the twenty eighth . |
| 11 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |
| 12 | No they have to be in by the twenty sixth of June . |
| 13 | Right through from the mid sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth one of these families was always recorded as Bonner alias Pitt , a continuity in the use of a double-barrelled surname that Dr Prior thinks suggests a certain family pride . |
| 14 | The process of expansion which the press went through in the late 19th century did not continue beyond the First World War . |
| 15 | The quiet period starts on the eighteenth of May and it goes right through until the twenty first of June . |
| 16 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Holywood got through to the final last year so they will be hoping for another good run this year . |
| 18 | There was clearly an increase in population from probably the ninth and tenth centuries right through to the troubled fourteenth century , but there are several ways in which extra people can be fed and accommodated on the land . |
| 19 | But Valli then dropped back to third when club secretary and veteran runner Brian took over on the penultimate third stage . |
| 20 | Audience figures fell off during the weaker second series ( 21 episodes ) , but TV had already received its enema , and things would never be the same again . |
| 21 | Faithful readers will recall that , despite being bottom of the Banks Group Northern Youth League , the lads had played the entire season without a booking or sending off until the catastrophic 82nd minute of the final game . |
| 22 | Hirst , seven goals in nine games this term , is banned after being sent off in the 3-1 first leg defeat while £1 million new boy Bright is ineligible . |
| 23 | GARETH HALL will miss Chelsea 's Coca-Cola Cup quarter-final with Crystal Palace after being sent off in the stormy fourth round replay against Everton . |
| 24 | Wednesday 's players are still furious over the controversial refereeing that saw striker David Hirst sent off in the 3–1 first leg defeat in Kaiserslautern . |
| 25 | The hamlet of Blinkbonny grew up during the late 19th and early 20th century alongside Blinkbonny Farm . |
| 26 | As for the records being destroyed , it is true nothing now predates 1465 , but early records certainly existed up until the early seventeenth century . |
| 27 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 28 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
| 29 | Up to the mid eighteenth century , foreign holdings , predominantly Dutch , amounted to around a fifth of the debt . |
| 30 | On a back street , just off Bucharest 's Bulevardul General Magheru , a spiral stone staircase winds up to the cramped first floor offices of Comturist . |