Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [num ord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the , le let's say association was first formed on the thirteenth of February nineteen seven , nineteen thirty seven , so you can see by that date fifty years an established national organization for the whole of Scotland . |
| 2 | The condition that we now recognise as AIDS was first reported in the USA in 1981 . |
| 3 | When AIDS was first identified in the USA , all those affected seemed to be gay or bisexual men . |
| 4 | Indeed , when a collecting programme was first proposed to the US National Science Foundation in 1973 it was severely criticised by reviewers , who claimed it would be an expensive and essentially hopeless venture to search the vast polar wastes for meteorites . |
| 5 | Spitsbergen was first mentioned in the old Icelandic annals of the year 1194 , and was said to lie ‘ four days sailing from Langanes , at the northern end of the sea ’ They called it Svalbard , the ‘ cold coast ’ . |
| 6 | Metcalfe was first dropped for the game against Kent but returned at Basingstoke after two half centuries in a second team match and he was the top aggregate scorer against Hampshire . |
| 7 | Action was first promised after the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 8 | Such a cause of action was first introduced by the 1846 Act . |
| 9 | Two other contemporary writers whose work was first performed by the English Stage Company are Nigel Williams , author of Sugar n' Spice and Paul Kember , author of Not Quite Jerusalem ( which has recently been filmed ) . |
| 10 | De Staël was much admired in Switzerland until 1972 , when his work was last shown at the Peter Nathan gallery in Zurich , but was then largely neglected . |
| 11 | Poprischin was first played by the same actor Tim McConnell ( who also wrote the screenplay ) in the Dublin Theatre Festival 1987 where he won the Best Actor Harvey Award , and in 1989 won the off-Broadway OBIE . |
| 12 | The ceiling was first introduced in the 1989 Budget , at the then figure of £60,000 , which as the Chancellor explained would be linked annually to the retail prices index . |
| 13 | Environmental auditing was first developed in the US in response to the increasing pressure of legislation and fear of expensive litigation . |
| 14 | In the event , the sterling balances were much less of a problem from London 's point of view than was commonly anticipated when the scale of their wartime accumulation was first discussed in the mid-1940s . |
| 15 | Programme budgeting was first recommended in the US by the Hoover Commission in 1949 ( Report to Congress on Budget and Accounting ) . |
| 16 | For insertion into other sites ( eg , Xba I/ Stu I or Spe I/ Sma I ) each fragment was first subcloned into the Bam HI site of the multiple cloning vector pUC19 and subsequently isolated as a Xba I- Sma I fragment . |
| 17 | On 22 November the question was first raised in the Commons and John Nott , then Minister of Defence , replied : ‘ It would be wholly against our policy to supply equipment such as Rolls-Royce engines direct to Argentina . |
| 18 | The little corn mill was last worked during the 1950s but is still essentially complete . |
| 19 | Patients of this sort were first discovered in the late 1940s by Dr Theron G. Randolph , one of the founders of clinical ecology in America , and they have been reported by many other doctors since . |
| 20 | Vehicles for repair were first placed in the initial examination bay , this activity occupying three rows in the top paint shop . |
| 21 | Although the Supreme Court had ruled that amendments should be ratified within a reasonable period in order to reflect a contemporaneous consensus — the time limit most usually accepted was seven years — no such restriction had applied at the time when the amendment was first sent to the states for consideration . |
| 22 | Piano was first associated with the restoration project in 1987 and proposed a drastic plan involving the restructuring of the interior of the basilica . |
| 23 | This point was next considered in the case of Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd ( 1963 ) 2 All ER 575 . |
| 24 | In the so-called ‘ pill scare ’ of 1977 attention was first drawn to the risks from thrombosis to older women on the pill ( Vessey et al . |
| 25 | However , if the right is not commercially exploited within 15 years of the creation of the topography , the right expires 15 years from the time the topography was first recorded in a design document or the time when an article was first made to the design , whichever is the earlier . |
| 26 | This article was first published in the VORRSA Newsletter and is re-printed here by kind permission of the Editor . |
| 27 | Founded by Charles II in 1675 , the observatory was first opened to the public in the 1950s and contains one of the world 's finest collections of precision clocks and scientific instruments . |
| 28 | In several cases , important types of behaviour were first investigated in the Lorenz equations although these behaviours have since been recognised as typical of many systems . |
| 29 | Elections were held in June 1973 but the assembly was first paralysed by the Protestant-led ‘ workers ’ strike' and then prorogued by Parliament . |
| 30 | And he enjoyed picnics ; in the Guide he recounts how one day during a drive up Little Langdale and home by Dungeon Ghyll , ‘ the cloth was laid on the green grass , for that was the table : the cold collation was next produced from the carts , and the writer , though he has been one of many , has seldom witnessed more cheerful gipsyings . |