Example sentences of "these were the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 2 | After the Russians , these were the second most numerous ethnic group to be ruled from St Petersburg and occupied an area which , apart from the north-eastern corner of the Habsburg Empire , included the three southernmost of Russia 's nine western provinces and an equally large region on the left or eastern bank of the river Dnieper . |
| 3 | These were the first volumes to be received by the library from overseas and it is significant to note that after two centuries many of the original books remain on the shelves and Miller 's Dictionary is still is use . |
| 4 | These were the first nuclear stations to be built anywhere in the United Kingdom for some time , and they attracted special attention . |
| 5 | These were the first words spoken between us since we had arrived in Rome four days earlier . |
| 6 | As the first land-based creatures would need a tougher , armoured skin to protect them from their new environment , it is likely that these were the first amphibians . |
| 7 | Joachim Müncheberg , outstanding commander of 7 Staffel , Jagdgeschwader 26 , who led his little unit to Sicily in February 1941 , to operate over Malta ; these were the first Messerschmitt Bf109E fighters to operate anywhere in the Mediterranean war zone . |
| 8 | — these were the first decent UG plates to appear in the hobby , and I have always stuck to them , having no cause to complain after 15 years of use . |
| 9 | These were the first large-scale arrests of government opponents since a program of political reforms started in 1989 . |
| 10 | These were the first court-ordered executions in Chad for many years . |
| 11 | Originally , the lymphocyte function associated LFA-3 ( CD58 ) glycoprotein was identified as the CD2 ligand ; these were the first two molecules shown to be involved in heterophilic adhesion and their interaction is likely to be a paradigm for adhesion interactions within the IgSF . |
| 12 | These were the first examples my research threw up , which leads me to wonder why the letter H hunts in packs . |
| 13 | These were the first men of less than fully aristocratic background to gain prominence through their merit . |
| 14 | These were the first brachiopods . |
| 15 | These were the first forces to come in . |
| 16 | These were the first three of five rules pronounced by the Fowler brothers , and with these three Quiller-Couch agrees . |
| 17 | A systematic search for the pair of NTPs that led to the formation of stable initiated complexes ( to be shown and discussed below ) indicated that only the simultaneous presence of GTP and UTP could give rise to stable complexes , indicating that these were the first two NTPs incorporated at both promoters . |
| 18 | These were the first photographs successfully to render sky and foreground in a single exposure . |
| 19 | These were the first premises in Britain to mass-produce photographs , using a factory system . |
| 20 | These were the first tests with the camera , and were encouraging ; a suitable refinement of the technique should discriminate quite well between different sizes of plant . |
| 21 | These were the first multiparty elections to be held in the Soviet Union , the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet having in December 1989 abolished the constitutionally guaranteed communist monopoly of power [ see p. 37129 ] and having earlier in February passed a new law regulating the establishment and functioning of new political parties ; in fact new or revived political parties had been emerging in Lithuania since the beginning of 1989 [ see pp. 36487 ; 36854 ] . |
| 22 | These were the first contested presidential election since independence in 1960 . |
| 23 | These were the first opposition parties to be approved under the legislation of the previous October [ see p. 38519 ] . |
| 24 | These were the first elections since the overthrow of President Mengistu Haile Mariam in May 1991 and the establishment of a transitional government in July 1991 ; a general election was still scheduled for 1993 . |
| 25 | These were the first exchange traded financial derivatives . |
| 26 | as if realising that these were the last days of his anonymity , he took to walking the New York streets at night , staring into people 's faces . |
| 27 | Unaware that these were the last rites of disco , the aliens reported back to their Mistress ruler on the home planet . |
| 28 | He had been doing road duty when the first wagons rolled past , with a US Cavalry Escort , and he had looked upon the face of the Josephite leader and known that these were the last days of the world . |
| 29 | These were the Last Days , and soon would come the cleansing fire . |
| 30 | These were the last photographs taken of Sharon Hill . |