Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after eleven she heard the doorbell ring , then he groaning of the lift and a soft clatter as the grille door closed . |
| 2 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 3 | Once a Renaissance palace , after 1709 it became the property of Count Vrtba who commissioned Kaňka to rebuild it for him . |
| 4 | After 1949 he joined the Foreign Ministry and served in London between 1954 and 1962 . |
| 5 | In the Wimpy after 2001 we imitated the apes banging their bones on the ground with our knives and forks on the formica table . |
| 6 | But it was the Gooch-Atherton opening partnership of 168 which demonstrated the flexibility of numbers . |
| 7 | The battle cry of 1948 which saved the life of an Oxfordshire village . |
| 8 | From the age of eight I attended the Odeon in Exeter . |
| 9 | Training sessions half past eight you shut the door . |
| 10 | The law against sex discrimination was strengthened by the Sex Discrimination Act of 1986 which removed the restrictions on the hours women could work , allowing both night work and shift work , and gave women the right to work until the same age as their male colleagues . |
| 11 | In 1984 the Housing and Building Control Act reduced the qualifying period of tenancy from three years to two and increased the maximum discount from 50 per cent to 60 per cent , and this was followed by the Housing and Planning Act of 1986 which increased the discounts available on flats to 70 per cent . |
| 12 | The dual system was an anomaly based on the Ausgleich or ‘ Compromise ’ of 1867 which guaranteed the independence of both Austria and Hungary except in certain matters of common concern ( see p. 202 ) . |
| 13 | He summoned his junior , Rajiv Sengupta , a rising star of thirty-six who had the job of co-ordinating financial assistance to industry in the regions , to worry with him . |
| 14 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 15 | In the zemstvo elections of 1909–10 they used the marginally greater electoral freedom granted after 1905 to elect vigorous upholders of the peasant interest . |
| 16 | My right hon. Friend then said : ’ I understand that in this instance Dr. Beer 's request was considered at some length by an assessment panel of six which included the District Chair , Chief Executive and District Director of Public Health . |
| 17 | Using the tides to his advantage , he had beaten to windward across St Austell Bay as far as Deadman Point , and to his crew of six who manned the sheets and tended the lines , it had seemed that he had some magic way with him : every time they lost the fish , he would put about and find the shoal again , so that his lads hardly had time to swallow a hunk of bread or a gill of ale from one end of the day to the other . |
| 18 | one of six who leaned the table down , |
| 19 | The place seems to enshrine for the Swiss their national ideals from the earliest days of the Confederation onward , and there is an element of pilgrimage attendant on the crowds of citizens from all parts of the country , wearing many varieties of national costume , who come here , ferried across from Brunnen by relays of lake steamers , to join in the observations of the day , commemorating the solemn oath of 1307 which confirmed the earlier League Covenant of 1291 to defend inherited liberties . |
| 20 | The term ‘ continuation school ’ was derived from the wording of the Education Code of 1862 which defined the Evening School as one providing ‘ not secondary , but continued elementary instruction ’ . |
| 21 | The principle had been first established in an Act of 1662 which authorised the levying of a capital sum or an annual rent in respect of the ‘ melioration ’ of properties following street widenings in London . |
| 22 | During the summer of 1975 I visited the station one day when we had nothing particular to do , with two friends . |
| 23 | He successfully negotiated the repeal of a clause in the statute of 4 & 5 Philip and Mary , c.5 , which seriously prejudiced west-country clothiers ' interests ( 43 Eliz. , c.10 ) , and was one of three who persuaded the French to repeal , in February 1606 , a decree prohibiting the import of English tentered cloth . |
| 24 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |
| 25 | It was the dramatic and unexpected fall of France in the early summer of 1940 which persuaded the British leadership as a whole that , whatever the cost , it was now imperative to secure American assistance . |
| 26 | The names and dates tell their own story : the Treason Act of 1842 , passed after an impotent attempt to frighten the sovereign by a young hunchback with a faultily loaded pistol ; the Vagrancy Act of 1824 which allowed the flogging of ‘ incorrigible rogues ’ , commonly elderly tramps , and which has come into more recent notoriety through the ‘ sus ’ laws ; the Diplomatic Privileges Act of 1708 which offered protection to Ambassadors and their servants ; and the Knacker 's Act of 1786 which dealt with the irregular slaughter of horses and cattle . |
| 27 | If the system is so ‘ sophisticated ’ that outside organisations are handling our magazine and problems like the one in Autumn occur why bother with that system ? why not go back to good old postage stamps ? … the reason is because we commenced distribution by Royal Mail 's ‘ Presstream ’ at the beginning of 1992 which involves the sender sorting all its UK mail into postcode order , the benefit being considerable savings from two discounts , firstly the Presstream pricing is lower than the standard postage rate and secondly an extra discount is earned because we have done the sorting instead of Royal Mail . |
| 28 | I am speaking about a special form of small-holding — the croft , as defined by the UK parliament in legislation , from the first Crofters Act of 1886 to the Act of 1976 which gave the crofter the right to purchase his holding on very favourable terms . |
| 29 | However you feel about the useless violence of these eruptions , it was the riotous protests of 1981 which created the space in which political antiracism became an option . |
| 30 | The Fenland ( covering Cambridgeshire , Isle of Ely , Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough ) was without a tutor-organiser from the time Frank Cossey resigned in July 1956 until the appointment of Robert Darby in July 1959 : here it was the decision not to reappoint in Essex following Collingwood 's departure at the end of 1957 which allowed the District to negotiate with the Ministry for a new tutor-organiser to be assigned to the Fenland instead . |