Example sentences of "[num] [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a series of bloody encounters in 1796 Napoleon threw back the Austrian , liberating the Italians — again — and created several new republics , one of which , the Cisalpine Republic , had Milan as its capital . |
| 2 | After 1788 Baldwin took over the development of the Bathwick estate , a project conceived on the most ambitious scale . |
| 3 | " Yon " just happened to be three WAAFs toiling up the brae each with a kit bag . |
| 4 | With the deaths of Parent and Brassey in 1870 Buddicom wound up the partnership . |
| 5 | White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices . |
| 6 | As long ago as 1957 Chomsky pointed out the weaknesses of n-gram techniques to provide an English grammar based on their inability to cope with long distance dependencies . |
| 7 | But in 1908 Edison set up the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ) , which included among its aims an increase in the share of the US market taken by domestic productions . |
| 8 | His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities . |
| 9 | The Kitching works were sold off to the S&DR and in 1860 Alfred handed over the Lister works to his cousin , Charles Ianson . |
| 10 | In the late 1850s Stringfellow took up the new art of photography , becoming so proficient that he advertised himself as a professional portrait photographer , with a studio in the High Street of Chard . |
| 11 | In October 1953 Khrushchev replaced Malenkov at the head of the party , and in 1955 Bulganin took over the chairmanship of the Council of Ministers . |
| 12 | From 1624 to 1640 Dutton bought up the land round Sherborne Park in order to create a deer park , to be enclosed by a high wall . |
| 13 | In 1988 McBain set up The Electronic Studio , a technology and business systems specialist . |
| 14 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |