Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ? |
| 2 | I was pleased to see that in the 1992 World Cup team there were four Afrikaners in murg en beens ( in marrow and bone ) who had Afrikaans as their first language of fluency — Wessels , Cronje , Bosch and Sonald . |
| 3 | Many , unable or unwilling to see that by the 1890s the emergence of the proletariat had redefined the terms of the class struggle , failed to cut themselves adrift from their bourgeois and petty-bourgeois roots . |
| 4 | A 54 hour working week was to remain until after the 1914–18 war , when , on l January l919 , a 47 hour week was introduced . |
| 5 | But on 21 July , Edward I ordered Jean de Grilly to obey Philip III 's summons and to make ready to perform military service ; but in his reply to the king of France he was to stress that in the 1259 treaty ‘ the certainty of the said service has not yet been found ’ . |
| 6 | Prussia was the weakest of the victorious powers in 1815 , and posed no threat to Britain , as France seemed to do when in the 1860s Napoleon III appeared to be following the ambitions of Napoleon I , and contemplating invasion . |
| 7 | It is also important to recognise that throughout the 1980s , whilst MDC has received access to substantial financial resources , the government has simultaneously squeezed local authority budgets , particularly Liverpool City Council 's ( Liverpool City Council , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Are we to suppose that in the thousands of millions of years before conscious life emerged in the world — and still today in those extensive parts of the universe where no conscious life has yet developed — no wavepacket has ever collapsed , no atom for certain decayed ? |
| 9 | Maybe average 1.5->2 is a tough number of points to get BUT over the 6 games 3 wins ( Scum/Hammers/Arse ) and the rest draws ( QPR/Newc/Norw ) is just what we need ! ! ! |
| 10 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it seems fair to say that by the 1530s social grievances were again being voiced to an extent that they had not been in the previous century . |
| 12 | It is therefore true to say that by the mid-1930s , the Labour Party was truly , as it had never been before , the party of the working class . |
| 13 | It is interesting to note that in the 1978 World Bank Report some communist countries were given a special category , ‘ centrallyplanned economies ’ . |
| 14 | You have the problem of how much to tax because on the one hand you 're trying to promote this rich peasant economy and not erm tax them too heavily because you do n't want to , them to not invest with |