Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The diatom analysis was sensitive enough to pick up land use changes : lake records detected pollen change , showing variation in vegetation , but it was the coincidence of the onset of acidification with the industrial revolution , its rapid acceleration after the Second World War when the consumption of fossil fuels leapt up , and the appearance of industrial metals , which made the conclusive link . |
| 2 | When it was formed in 1919 AIB was a branch of the old Air Ministry which controlled civil aviation as well as the Royal Air Force , and it remained in that department until immediately after the Second World War when the Ministry of Civil Aviation was formed . |
| 3 | Research on the role of stress in psychiatric disorder has grown markedly since the Second World War when the numbers of psychiatric casualties brought an awareness to the general public of the prevalence of mental illness . |
| 4 | From the Second World War onwards the top 100 firms became even more dominant : by 1970 they produced 45% of total output . |
| 5 | Views on the tests were also sought from the teachers and their pupils in these second phase schools when the tests were administered . |
| 6 | The sixth unit rams home the enormity of such an act , but the sacramental references have already introduced the joy latent in the horror . |
| 7 | In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system . |
| 8 | By the First World War both the Canadian Northern and the GTP , shackled with loss-making mountain railroads , were in deep financial difficulties . |
| 9 | There were frequent rowdy incidents as these gangs of travelling supporters descended on a town for an away match , especially after the First World War when the struggle for Irish independence was at its height . |
| 10 | So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself . |
| 11 | That would leave the afternoon free for the first walk-around rehearsals where the Director would begin working out his cast , camera and microphone boom movements . |
| 12 | If the first stage functions then the final second stage output is likely to be hard against the positive or negative amplifier limits , but very careful manipulation of the core orientation will find a position in which tiny movements will flick the output between limits . |
| 13 | Villagers in Usk , Powys , thought they were to be the next flood victims when the River Usk rose 20 feet in three hours . |
| 14 | The supplier need not identify the actual manufacturer , only the next person back up the chain of supply . |
| 15 | In Third World countries where the disease occurs , day-today exposure to leprosy would confuse the trials by giving many people natural immunity . |