Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination . |
| 2 | Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority . |
| 3 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 4 | Palatinate of Durham Within the Department of Palaeography of the University of Durham , established in 1948 for the promotion of the study of manuscript material mainly from the northern counties , there are major collections dating from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries . |
| 5 | No 15 , a 2-6-2T loco built in Nivelles , Belgium in 1948 for the Jokioisten Railway in Finland stands stored in Llanfair station yard . |
| 6 | Despite US-European commercial rivalry , the American hopes of 1948 for the creation of a stable , thriving , anti-communist Europe had arguably been fulfilled . |
| 7 | Several quote 70 as the upper age limit for voluntary and statutory committees and the like . |
| 8 | Ian Woosnam fired a two-under-par 70 as the rain-hit Malaysian Open got underway in Kuala Lumpur yesterday . |
| 9 | Applied to problem P1 of Section 8.2 , it gives x 2 l = 7 , x 4 l = 1 , x 43 = 3 , x 45 = 1 and x 46 = 4 , which has a cost of 67 compared with 92 for the initial BFS given in that section . |
| 10 | Skipper Arjuna Ranatunga ( 76 ) and Hashan Tillakaratne ( 43 ) then steadied the ship , adding 92 for the fifth wicket . |
| 11 | NICK FALDO was scotched on the rocks but toasted a scintillating 70 for the halfway lead in the £1.8 million Johnnie Walker World Championship here yesterday . |
| 12 | The demand for places continued to grow : in 1952 there were 200 applicants for the 29 Senior places , 55 for the 10 in the Junior School ; in the following year 310 for 44 Senior places ( every so often , three forms were admitted instead of the usual two ) , 70 for the 10 Junior . |
| 13 | And to ensure you get there in style we 'll lend you the Volvo 460 for the weekend ! |
| 14 | He subsequently took out a number of patents in these two fields , the most valuable being in 1875 for the making of copper rollers for calico printing . |
| 15 | Canada 's Ray Stewart was alone in second place on 136 while the defending champion , Tom Watson , was eight off the pace after a second-round 68 . |
| 16 | It began trading in 1971 as the subsidiary of a Germany company before being bought over by its management team in 1987 . |
| 17 | The Republic of Zaïre ( known until 1971 as the Republic of the Congo ) , became independent from Belgium in June 1960 . |
| 18 | The Republic of Zaïre ( known until 1971 as the Republic of the Congo ) became independent from Belgium in June 1960 . |
| 19 | followed at Faversham in 1971 as the ‘ boss ’ leaving in 1980 to return to East Anglia as director and general manager — East Anglia . |
| 20 | JOHN LENNON 's Academy Award , won in 1971 for the song ‘ Let It Be ’ , will be auctioned in New York on October 5 . |
| 21 | The red jacket of C/Sgt Nicholl was acquired from his descendants by the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside in 1971 for the collection of the King 's Regiment . |
| 22 | With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket . |
| 23 | Built in 1934 for the infamous 1936 Hitler Olympics , when the black hero of America , Jesse Owens , smashed the formidable sprint opposition of Germany , the stadium had withstood the Allied bombings during the war and became a symbol of a new Germany when Berlin was split in half by the Wall . |
| 24 | Oak is a ‘ Severner Motor ’ built by Charles Hill in 1934 for the Severn & Canal Carrying Company . |
| 25 | This point is picked up by both Gregory and Fredegar , who describe the later Frankish invasion of Burgundy in 523 as the prosecution of Chlothild 's bloodfeud against her uncle 's family . |
| 26 | As it happens , the concrete evidence about marriage in the " 1910 sample " analysed in Chapter 6 ( those women in the trade in 1910 ) very largely relates to women who were aged about 18–28 during the Great War , and it could reasonably be argued that the war played such havoc with the marriage chances of this generation that it will have contained an unusually high proportion of women who never married . |
| 27 | whitewashed West Indies in the one-dayers and were then routed 4–0 during the main business of that summer . |
| 28 | Shanks 's name is permanently associated with the system of vats , known as ‘ Shanks 's vats ’ , introduced in 1861 for the extraction of the soda from black ash in the Leblanc industry for the production of alkali , but these were never the subject of a patent . |
| 29 | To check you understand this , try drawing a diagram like Figure 15–4 for the meals industry . |
| 30 | Let's see , from the top and grossing it up on a worldwide basis , it 's roughly fifty for the visor , two hundred for shirts and sweaters , just under fifty for the golf gloves , and a hundred for the trousers . ’ |