Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ plane lumbered around , came back into the wind , and began its second run in over the target zone . |
| 2 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
| 3 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 4 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 5 | When this was first pointed out to the ambassador , he said that he could not be sued for libel since he possessed diplomatic immunity . |
| 6 | These private verses were first collected up in the Nonesuch Collected Papers vol. 2 ( see MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ) . |
| 7 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 9 | The prizes as stated will be awarded to those readers whose correct entries are the first drawn out of the bag after the competition 's closing date . |
| 10 | His returned warranty card was the first drawn out for the month of April under a new scheme to encourage registration of pumps and a faster system of repair as featured in February 's Newsround . |
| 11 | It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain . |
| 12 | He was at first driven out by the duces , Berhthun and Andhun , but it was not long before he attacked again and slew King Aethelwealh ( HE IV , 15 ) . |
| 13 | The key factor for Freud is the prohibition on sexual desire , first set up by the father in the primal horde . |
| 14 | The two clubs are the first set up by the recreation support unit of Darlington Borough Council . |
| 15 | It is important to realise that serious books of this kind , which form the backbone of the libraries and were first laid down by the Victorians , are most often those which are not taken out or ‘ issued ’ at all . |
| 16 | The town centre , west of the Windrush river , was first laid out by the Bishop of Winchester in the early 13th. century , and is considered to be a fine example of medieval town planning . |
| 17 | And when King Rudolf the Fifth stepped out of the train , the people shouted , ‘ God save the King ! ’ |
| 18 | In the consultation document that was first put out to the public in nineteen ninety one , the public was only offered the yellow route . |
| 19 | It was first worked on at the turn of the century by the American psychologist , E. L. Thorndike , and more recently by another American psychologist , B. F. Skinner , and many others . |
| 20 | When they are first chipped out of the rock such fossils will often be partly concealed by matrix . |
| 21 | Like the ‘ Samson ’ , it is an important rediscovery , once in the Demidoff Collection , that had been missing for decades and was last seen in at the C.L.Cardon sale in Brussels in 1921 . |
| 22 | Harbour Town , believe it or not , is a rather superb public course , with its 18th laid out alongside the Calibogue Sound , where a lighthouse forms the backdrop to the green — no excuse for missing this one . |
| 23 | The brewers have at last woken up to the fact that their high-street shops have become dinosaurs slouching towards extinction . |
| 24 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |