Example sentences of "[num] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Throughout the thirties the Germans had been eager to displace the British . |
| 32 | By 1948 the US needed an international cultural prestige to offset its military and political power : it needed a sophisticated reply to the slogans of Yankee Go Home ! |
| 33 | In 1948 the exemption was set at $600 a person ; in 1990 it was $2,050 . |
| 34 | This was carried out with thoroughness , but without success , by the Missing Research and Enquiry Service , and in 1948 the case was closed . |
| 35 | The Gunners ' services were regularly sought by the England selectors , and between April 1933 and November 1948 the England side for full internationals always included at least one Arsenal man . |
| 36 | In 1948 the Works suffered another major fire . |
| 37 | As we have seen , by 1948 the British government seemed to have modified its attitude , and many thought the time to be more propitious for attempting to pull Britain more firmly within the European orbit . |
| 38 | Leading economic advisers began to press for greater reliance on the price mechanism , and in 1948 the Board of Trade had a ‘ bonfire of economic controls ’ . |
| 39 | We have already seen ( on pp. 33–4 , above ) that in 1948 the conventions of historic-cost , straight-line depreciation of capital led ( if the Boards broke-even on book costs ) to artificially low prices . |
| 40 | Between the surrender and December 1948 the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce retail price index rose by 4000 per cent and it is estimated that black market prices increased at double this rate . |
| 41 | On 19 October 1948 the Yosu rebellion occurred when police about to be sent to Cheju-do rebelled . |
| 42 | By autumn 1948 the split along the 38th parallel had been formalized . |
| 43 | Between June 1947 and July 1948 the Cabinet considered capital punishment six times . |
| 44 | Until 1948 the British ruled Palestine , but on 15th May that year the British mandate came to an end , and they handed over the country to the Jews . |
| 45 | Meanwhile , in April 1948 the US Congress approved the European Recovery Programme , as the Marshall Plan had become , which provided several billion dollars to European countries in 1948–52 . |
| 46 | At Christmas 1948 the situation exploded with the KNDO fighting the PVO , and then units of the Karen Rifles fighting the ex-BNA units of the Burma Rifles . |
| 47 | We were told that after 1948 the revenue sought to tax at least two categories of employees in receipt of in-house benefits . |
| 48 | Under the Children Act of 1948 the local authorities were given a duty to place a child in foster care unless this was not practicable or desirable in the child 's best interests . |
| 49 | In 1948 the National Health Service took over all the hospitals and institutions as psychiatric and subnormality hospitals under the regional hospital boards , while local health authorities continued the provision of community services . |
| 50 | In 1948 the International Ozone Commission was formed , with Dobson as president and Normand as secretary ( until 1959 ) . |
| 51 | From January 1948 the line formed part of the Western Region of British Railways until the closure of practically the whole line in December 1960 . |
| 52 | Restoring their land fell within the purview of the bill because in 1948 the Slovak government had agreed that many Hungarians should get their land back , but the decision had never been implemented . |
| 53 | When the destroyers , HMS Volage and HMS Saumares , ran into Albanian mines while passing legitimately through the Corfu channel between Albania and Corfu , 44 men had been killed ; in 1948 the International Court of Justice at the Hague had ruled that the Albanian government should pay £843,947 compensation . |
| 54 | In January 1948 the US State Department began to consider posting an Ambassador to Madrid and supplies of petroleum and military and paramilitary matériel began to be sent through the Standard Oil Company . |
| 55 | In 1948 the Netherlands , Belgium and Luxembourg formed Benelux which was a CU in industrial goods . |
| 56 | In 1948 the Vulcan Foundry of Lancashire gained a controlling interest ( strangely enough , Vulcan was an off-shoot of a firm founded by George Stephenson in the 1820s ) and in 1962 the name changed to English Electric . |
| 57 | They were also losing votes to the left : in 1948 the Christian Democrats received 49 per cent of the votes while the Communists and Socialists together polled 31 per cent ; by 1963 the Christian Democrats ' share had fallen to 38 per cent and the Socialists and Communists ' had risen to 39 per cent . |
| 58 | In 1948 the United Nations gave Israel to the Jews in Israel . |
| 59 | Denis Smith reckoned you could n't tell which was the top club … and which was the bottom … that 's a fair point … but Charlton took all three … 1-0 the final score … |
| 60 | Figure 16–6 THE LAFFER CURVE . |