Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experiences of 1933 and 1934 suggested to many that European politics was likely to intrude increasingly into a previously insular British labour movement . |
| 2 | Until the recent repopulation of the countryside this last law , Law 4 , did n't seem to apply and Laws 2 and 5 seemed to be operating inexorably . |
| 3 | The handbook of artificial intelligence , volumes 2 and 3 Edited by A. Barr & E. A. Feigenbaum ( vol 2 ) ; P. Cohen & E. A. Feigenbaum ( vol 3 ) , Pitman |
| 4 | The non-farm workforce rose by only 19,000 compared with an increase of between 50,000 and 75,000 predicted by economists . |
| 5 | His support of plots against Beaton in 1544 and 1545 came to fruition in May 1546 , when a group of Fifeshire lairds headed by Norman Leslie , son of the earl of Rothes , broke into the episcopal castle at St Andrews , murdered the cardinal and slung his body over the castle walls ; the murderers , henceforth known as the Castalians , barricaded themselves inside the castle , which they held as a Protestant stronghold . |
| 6 | The spot marks the place where where hundreds and thousands gathered in February 1986 for a popular uprising that overthrew the late President Ferdinand Marcos , and made Mrs Aquino the President . |
| 7 | The spot marks the place where where hundreds and thousands gathered in February 1986 for a popular uprising that overthrew the late President Ferdinand Marcos , and made Mrs Aquino the President . |
| 8 | Willys , who had been imprisoned in 1654 and 1655 had in fact reached an understanding with John Thurloe [ q.v . ] , |
| 9 | Mr Turner his wife and three daughters aged eight , six and four moved to France in April and his auberge opened in July . |
| 10 | The excellent fold-away seats six and seven accessed by spring-loaded rear step make this an excellent people ( school run ) vehicle . |
| 11 | Nos. 44 and 48 passed to London Transport still with bogie mounted plough carriers . |
| 12 | In America the divisions over slavery in the 1840s and 1850s continued with separate Northern and Southern churches . |
| 13 | 1990 No. 2203 ) , matters of complaint in paragraphs 6 , 7 and 8 corresponded to paragraphs 1 , 4 and 5 of Schedule 8 as amended . |
| 14 | Over fifty years ago Dorothy George contested the views of writers like the Webbs and the Hammonds that 1799 and 1800 amounted to " the most unqualified surrender of the State to the discretion of a class in the History of England " . |
| 15 | This was matched by increasing synchronisation in economic fluctuations such that the crises of 1971 and 1973 reverberated throughout the whole system with an effect stronger than anything experienced in peacetime for nearly half a century . |
| 16 | As the government exceeded its monetary targets and unemployment soared , so critics in 1980 and 1981 waited for a U-turn , or a change in economic strategy . |
| 17 | At the same time , the proportion of freight carried on the railways between 1980 and 1990 dropped from 9% to 7% , while the proportion using road transport rose to 83% . |
| 18 | Older , Clapham Sect- Christian Observer evangelicals who had always believed in the necessity of good deeds in the world for forming the true Christian heart , increasingly in the 1820s and 1830s regretted amongst younger ‘ ranters and ‘ noisy professors ’ , followers of the histrionic Edward Irving , a relative complacency about public activity beyond the conversion of individual souls . |
| 19 | Prussia in the 1820s and 1830s stood with one foot in the feudal , agricultural past and the other foot in the new age of industry . |
| 20 | Three or four dropped into the darkness and choc ice wrappers , dead ; a few fluttered aimlessly to rest around us ; some took off into the vast space above . |
| 21 | By getting to grips with such details as whether tradesmen negotiated with the servants at the front door or down the area steps , how the speculative system which produced most of London 's houses between 1700 and 1830 worked between landlord , builder and tenant , how builders skimped on brickwork and laced their masonry with pieces of wood , how the proportioning of windows in façades and interior details were worked out , and how water supplies entered houses and were stored ( in decorative lead cisterns usually prominent in the basement kitchen ) , it gives an extraordinarily vivid sense of contact with the life that created London 's Georgian world of squares and terraces , all of which is heightened by effective quotations form the impressions of foreign visitors . |
| 22 | The youth work practice which began to emerge in the 1870s and 1880s built upon a long tradition of mainly religious charitable activity among young people , usually in connection with Sunday schools , temperance societies and the Band of Hope . |
| 23 | However , Eiders may also be seen right along the coast , and the total numbers recorded wintering between 1960 and 1976 varied between 20 in the winter of 1960/61 and 250 in that of on average about 70–80 are usually present . |
| 24 | The company began rating suppliers in 1984 and 1990 moved to a more sophisticated system with the introduction of its supplier Quality Management Process . |
| 25 | It is important for us to understand , therefore , that what was going on in schools in the 1920s , '30s , '40s and '50s paled into insignificance by the side of community drama . |
| 26 | The main Sussex wintering locality for this species is Rye Bay , where winter peaks between 1964 and 1976 ranged between 150 and 1,100 birds , averaging 530 . |
| 27 | Patients 101 and 102 died at the ages of 72 and 70 years with no known features of FAP and no cancer . |
| 28 | Figures 6.3 and 6.4 reproduced by kind permission of the authors and editor of the British Medical Journal ) |
| 29 | Hence there was a serious distortion in policy which between 1981 and 1985 led to the number of places in private and voluntary residential nursing homes rising by 138 per cent , from 39,000 to 93,000 despite a policy commitment to community care . |
| 30 | The World Bank has admitted that many of the projects it funded in Brazil during the 1970s and 80s resulted in massive environmental degradation and the eviction of over 100,000 poor farmers and their families , many of whom were forced into the shanty-towns of major cities . |