Example sentences of "that [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of meetings which had begun in London in 1645 , the mathematician John Wallis could say : These remarks indicate the scope that existed by the mid-seventeenth century for differentiation between the sciences . |
| 32 | He certainly had a Herculean task to maintain any consistency of policy among an immensely disparate collection of politicians , constituting , I think , one of the most brilliant Cabinets of our time , short of the Cabinet that served after the Second World War . |
| 33 | ‘ Raised ’ from the ruck , originally , by his family 's wealth , he does n't want to ‘ sink ’ , and rejects ‘ the idea of defeat ’ that prevails in the Third World : ‘ I 'm tired of being on the losing side . |
| 34 | Received Pronunciation is the accent , used by a minority of speakers in Britain , that developed in the nineteenth century in the public schools and universities , and was associated in the 1930s and 1940s with BBC newsreaders . |
| 35 | Sponsored by UNESCO , the meeting followed up initiatives that sprang from the Third Consultation of Ministers of Culture of Latin America/Caribbean in September last year . |
| 36 | The return of Tony Hanson to the team that lost in the last five seconds at Broxbourne could be the inspiration , but with Doncaster playing second placed Oldham and Plymouth at fourth placed Brixton , the two teams above them could well lose ground . |
| 37 | Descent is made southwards over a pathless moor to a depression containing a small tarn and a wall that rises to the next height , Swarth Fell . |
| 38 | so the scheme , there 's a scheme number as well , I do n't want that yes , that 's one , and that started on the first of August nineteen ninety good that 's fine , yeah , so the information 's there |
| 39 | The stockmarket rally that started in the last quarter of 1992 pushed up the composite share index from a low point of 459 on August 21st to 678 at the end of the year , up 11% from 12 months earlier . |
| 40 | Greavesey of course and at the risk of overdosing on goals you can see all the action that mattered from the First Division yesterday . |
| 41 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
| 42 | Some of the water in these aquifers comes from recharge in wetter areas nearby , but much of it is ‘ fossil water ’ , rain that fell in the last Ice Age . |
| 43 | But no-one used that label in the ninth century ; nor did Charles ever call himself king of the West Franks : his own royal title was simply " king by the grace of God " . |
| 44 | Aware of the concern felt by many in his audience of European parliamentarians about the potential power of a united Germany , Mr Shevardnadze went out of his way to express agreement with President Franois Mitterrand that ‘ no European country can act without due regard for the European balance , without taking into account the interests of others and the existing historical situation that resulted from the second world war ’ . |
| 45 | Sometimes you might have a vision for an entire song and sometimes the vision is just for a particular part that relates to the next particular part . ’ |
| 46 | In a game that went to the fifth day only because many hours were lost to the weather — the actual playing time was two and two-thirds days — one was left wondering what he might have done had he been fully fit . |
| 47 | Of the 12 games that went to the 18th hole during the course of the match overall , only one was won by an American and , as matters got tighter and tighter , the home team got worse and worse . |
| 48 | The original trophy that went with the first prize disappeared — it is thought at some time during the eighteenth century — and there was never enough money to replace it . |
| 49 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 50 | Indeed , a striking and major aspect of the final volumes of À la Recherche is their often cruel analysis of the moral bankruptcy and social collapse of this salon world , during the years that culminated in the First World War . |
| 51 | Indeed , its constituent elements characterised and were inherited from the tradition of labourism that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century ( Saville 1973 ) . |
| 52 | Such expansion in a small business is particularly dangerous at this stage of its development in terms of potential survival given the number of small firms that fail in the first two years . |
| 53 | A lethal charge that lurked around the next junction ? |
| 54 | Furthermore , two-earner couples enjoy greater allowances ( 2.6SA ) than single-earner couples ( 1.6SA ) , a provision that dates from the Second World War when there was a policy to encourage married women to work . |
| 55 | Cross-channel traffic between South Wales and the coast from Weston to Ilfracombe , with settlement of Somerset and Devon families along the Welsh coast , is attested in the parish records that survive from the seventeenth century . |
| 56 | A head is all that part of a tone-unit that extends from the first stressed syllable up to ( but not including ) the tonic syllable . |
| 57 | The head was defined in the last chapter as ‘ all that part of a tone-unit that extends from the first stressed syllable up to , but not including , the tonic syllable ’ . |
| 58 | The wedding bells that sounded on the last page of so many ‘ romantic ’ novels of the last century are still sounding in certain genres but in the adventure story they seldom sound at all . |
| 59 | This view characterises most sociological explanations of crime , including those that fall into the third category of causal explanation : invention . |
| 60 | Nicholas 's personal judgement may well have been crucial in blocking negotiations with the Kadets in the fluid situation that prevailed in the first half of 1906 . |