Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first set of changes in this period led to the Sexual Offences Amendment Act in 1976 ; the second led to Home Office guidelines on revised police procedures in 1983 ( and later 1986 ) . |
| 2 | The first needs no elaboration ; the second stemmed from socialism and the growing demands of the Welfare State ; and the third created rampant inflation in the cost of defence equipment , which has yet to be mastered . |
| 3 | It needed a sterling crisis and two ministerial reshuffles , the first caused by Morrison 's demotion as economic overlord after the convertibility crisis of August 1947 , and the second triggered by Dalton 's resignation the following November , before the Cabinet machine adequately adapted itself , with the creation of the Economic Policy Committee , to tackle the fundamental problem confronting the Government . |
| 4 | Owen Pickard got the first and the second came from Howard Clark … the comeback came too late … 3-2 to Preston |
| 5 | ‘ We posed them quite a few threats in the first half , ’ said Graham Taylor , while conceding the second belonged to Liverpool . |
| 6 | JANUARY 1st dawned in Czechoslovakia and the world did not come to an end . |
| 7 | Her eldest son was killed in an air raid on Liverpool in 1941 , the second died in Australia in 1973 , the third ( aged nine months ) in 1909 , and two of her daughters in 1948 and 1967 respectively . |
| 8 | Dylan Thomas first lived in Laugharne in the spring of 1938 , moving to Sea View shortly afterwards , but did not live there permanently until 1949 when he moved to the Boat House . |
| 9 | They are most often described as the offspring of fire , though some sources claim they first arose from man 's shadow . |
| 10 | Now in his late 40s Mr Rees says he has seen many changes in attitude to transsexuals in the 20 years since he first asked for treatment . |
| 11 | First asked for ideas for alternative employment to replace the arms industry , Mr. Browne suggested that it was the job of business not governments to provide employment , but he hoped some of the technologies currently used in defence could be deployed for civilian use . |
| 12 | I first met with Arnie it must 've been ‘ 44 , I did n't get to know him well then but he came out of that with one hell of a name as a field man . |
| 13 | Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) . |
| 14 | Established as a privately-financed institution by a Planning Board which first met in January 1969 , UCB had at an early stage to consider what awards it might offer in advance of the Charter it hoped to obtain . |
| 15 | They first met in April 1938 at High Leigh in Hertfordshire and Eliot regularly attended further meetings until 1943 . |
| 16 | They called themselves the Red Lions , after the name of the pub where they first met in Birmingham in 1839 . |
| 17 | He was president of the York Mechanics ' Institute from its foundation in 1827 , and was a founder member of the Yorkshire and Scarborough Philosophical Societies , and of the British Association , which first met in York in 1831 . |
| 18 | The people who were on the radio when I first got into listening were really fine singers , people like Perry Como , Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby , but good as they were , they did n't inspire me to be like them . |
| 19 | Tony O'Brien first got into photography because he did n't know what he wanted to do . |
| 20 | He first got into naturism in 1959 and spent years only stripping off abroad - especially in Yugoslavia , the Mecca for all naturists . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember that when I first got to Vogue , it was all the old school . |
| 22 | When I first applied for part time training in September 1984 I was interviewed within two weeks of the birth of my first child . |
| 23 | The rational expectations hypothesis does not pose a threat to Keynesian theory in the way that was thought to be the case when it first entered into macroeconomics . |
| 24 | Pioneering scholarship in the 1960s by Rudé and Rose suggested that food rioting first occurred in Oxfordshire in the closing years of the seventeenth century and then spread over the South and West and into the Midlands , but were uncommon in the northern counties . |
| 25 | The proposal form should be checked to see if the Policyholder disclosed the illness/injury or if the complaint first occurred after inception of the policy , did the Policyholder disclose this at the appropriate renewal date . |
| 26 | She first visited in March last year with her mother thanks to the villagers who started an appeal when they heard about the serious burns Elena suffered in a domestic accident . |
| 27 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 28 | This diagram is , of course , the old and familiar friend which we first encountered in Chapter 2 when discussing Pigou 's theory of employment . |
| 29 | The first stemmed from Britain 's own decline as a world power . |
| 30 | The fighting first erupted on July 16 when Hezbollah fighters captured the Amal-held village of Jarju in the Iqlim al-Tuffah hills south of Sidon . |