Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Taylor J felt that J 's dyslexia was a ‘ disability ’ and thus was covered by the second definition of learning difficulty ( above ) . |
| 2 | A higher income still was achieved in the first four years of Elizabeth , but the feudal revenue then fell back to between £12,000 and £14,000 per annum until 1598 , when an upward movement began once more . |
| 3 | On the other hand , though , all descriptions of climbing here were excluded from the last Pembroke guide by the Climbers ' Club 's editor for the volume . |
| 4 | Some two hundred years after Descartes had formulated his concept of mechanical laws , a proven capacity to discover the laws of nature and to express them mathematically was taken by the first systematic historian of science , William Whewell , as evidence of an affinity between human and the divine mind . |
| 5 | The dramatic story of the royal rescue has always attracted visitors , and an attempt to ‘ restore ’ the house to its appearance when Charles was here was made in the 19th century in deference to this appeal . |
| 6 | The original mill here was built in the eleventh century . |
| 7 | At Goslar , in the region of the Harz Mountains , the Kaiserpfalz here was restored in the nineteenth century on its original pattern , 1132 . |
| 8 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |