Example sentences of "[adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1943 the course was at risk of being farmed when official orders were made to plough up the 9th , 10th , 11th , 12th , 13th and 14th holes . |
| 2 | Indeed , scores of battalions had already been formed from ethnic minorities on an ad hoc basis by German formations in the field , and by late 1943 the total would exceed 400,000 men . |
| 3 | In December 1942 his committee issued the so-called ‘ Smolensk Manifesto ’ outlining their aims , and early in 1943 the existence of a Russian liberation movement and its Russian Liberation Army ( Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Armiya , ROA ) was proclaimed . |
| 4 | In January 1943 the Ministry of Town and Country Planning Bill was introduced , providing for the appointment of a Minister whose ‘ sole ministerial responsibility is in connection with town and country planning ’ ; the Bill was passed in February and W.S. Morrison was appointed first Minister . |
| 5 | By 1943 the group of three full-time and three part-time workers were dealing with 2,000 requests a year from hospital almoners , social workers and individuals , placing 523 and advising 986 , besides visiting homes to see if they were suitable . |
| 6 | In July 1943 the Town and Country Planning ( Interim Development ) Bill received the Royal Assent , legislation which effectively extended planning control to the whole of the country not so far covered by a planning scheme . |
| 7 | In the Thirties the Archbishop of Canterbury , Cosmo Gordon Lang , had such a powerful hand in the affairs of state that he was instrumental in getting Edward VIII to abdicate . |
| 8 | ‘ In the Thirties the Archbishop of Canterbury had a lot to do with the abdication . |
| 9 | In the thirties the business expanded , with further branches opening in the North of England and Scotland and it was at this point that the name Beaverbrooks was adopted . |
| 10 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 11 | I was grateful the bar was empty . |
| 12 | Glamorgan , needing 427 to win after starting the day on a 16 for three , were grateful the weather permitted only 17.1 overs . |
| 13 | Adopted without a vote on Nov. 22 , part B of Resolution 44/27 expressed the conviction that the system of apartheid could not be reformed and had to be eliminated , leading to the establishment of a united , non-racial and democratic South Africa . |
| 14 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 15 | She unplugged the percolator . |
| 16 | She unplugged the telephone and disconnected the doorbell , resolutely shutting herself off from the world as she manipulated her characters like pieces in a board game , reading their thoughts , putting speech into their mouths , controlling their destinies . |
| 17 | Juliette finished her task , put the trousers on a wooden hanger , hooked it over the back of a chair and unplugged the iron . |
| 18 | She unplugged the fridge and opened the door intending to let the fridge defrost . |
| 19 | This was carried out with thoroughness , but without success , by the Missing Research and Enquiry Service , and in 1948 the case was closed . |
| 20 | By autumn 1948 the split along the 38th parallel had been formalized . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Between June 1947 and July 1948 the Cabinet considered capital punishment six times . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On 19 October 1948 the Yosu rebellion occurred when police about to be sent to Cheju-do rebelled . |
| 26 | In 1948 the exemption was set at $600 a person ; in 1990 it was $2,050 . |
| 27 | We were told that after 1948 the revenue sought to tax at least two categories of employees in receipt of in-house benefits . |
| 28 | Rather dear the shirt . |
| 29 | He unbuckled the belt and , leaving it around Newley 's waist , looped it through the wheel and through the glassless window of the door . |
| 30 | In MS Harley 372 the work is ascribed to Sir Richard Ros , and this has been generally accepted . |