Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 On 2 December 1793 , having adopted the alias of Silas Tomkyn Comberbache , he secretly enlisted in the 15th Light Dragoons .
2 Sword used by Coleridge as a recruit in the 15th Light Dragoons .
3 In April 17th Iraqi diplomats are due to meet their Iranian counterparts in Geneva for a new round of peace talks .
4 For example , Riseholme , near Lincoln , did not finally disappear until the late sixteenth century-ecclesiastical records show that it still existed in the 1520s , but that by 1575 it had no facilities for burials .
5 Eventually , the message reaches the end of the line , and we read it ( or rather our 12,000th great grandchildren do , assuming that all the typists have a speed typical of a good secretary ) .
6 I think many of us in the hall here er realize that we 're probably the second largest users of the waters after the feathered variety and it 's very encouraging to realize that er there are some , may I say , green members of Council and its committees er who are very foresighted .
7 Founded in eighteen sixty nine , N C H , is Britain 's second largest children 's charity .
8 FASTA searches in SWISSPROT and NBRF protein databases with the derived amino acid sequences of NP1450L and EP1242L gave high scores against the largest and second largest subunits of eukaryotic , poxviral and bacterial RNA polymerases , respectively ( not shown ) .
9 Eukaryotic cells have three different RNA polymerases of similar multimeric structure , whose largest and second largest subunits share a high amino acid sequence similarity ( reviewed in ( 33 ) ) .
10 Pairwise comparisons of NP1450L and EP1242L with the largest and second largest subunits of Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA polymerases I , II and III , respectively , show that the ASFV subunits are more similar to the equivalent subunits of RNA polymerase II than to those of RNA polymerases I and III ( not shown ) .
11 Multiple alignment of conserved regions of the second largest subunits .
12 Fisons , which owns 40 per cent of the UK market in peat , is handing over 8,000 acres comprising parts of Thorne and Hatfield moors on the borders of South Yorkshire ( Britain 's largest and second largest bogs ) as well as bogs in the Somerset Levels and in Cumbria .
13 Placed in the top four universities in terms of financial support from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) , Bristol has received funding from the UFC this year to support the second largest increases in student numbers in the country — some 17% .
14 One of the school 's main aims is to raise enough money for a second indoor sports base , which would be of benefit to both the school and the local community .
15 Next comes a basic operations course covering all aspects of the business and , once this is mastered , trainees become second assistant managers .
16 It also allows reprocessing of data , enlargement of curve sections , superimposition of titration curves , first and second differential plots and exporting of data files to Lims or other software formats .
17 The first category covers business contracts , the second private contracts , and the third could cover either .
18 The item uppermost on his desk was a note in his own handwriting which said : ‘ Straker hol — chck Daw 1st 2 pts Pellings chchiness . ’
19 Beeney … not aided by appalling 1st half conditions , had an attack of the lukics , and was nt getting good direction on kicks , a lot of the time .
20 The historical analysis also charts trends in the degree of consensus of approach existing between the parties , highlighting an increased level of agreement by the time of the second direct elections to the European Parliament in 1984 .
21 In the period February 21st-26th , the French losses amounted to 25,000 men , and , although during that time the ratio of French and German casualties was reliably estimated at three to one , by the 29th German losses had already passed the 25,000 mark .
22 The vital signs of the patients were checked every hour for the first 12 hours , every two hours for the second 12 hours , and every four hours for the following 24 hours until they became stable , and then four times daily .
23 The second 10 cases had polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) with Y centromeric primers .
24 Klinsmann pulled a goal back in the 66th minute and Andreas Moeller scored the second 10 minutes from time .
25 Orders for the second 10 years , by which time the capital costs of THORP will also have been recovered , are coming in steadily with more than 40 per-cent capacity sold to Germany , Nuclear Electric and Scottish Nuclear .
26 pointed out that the meeting needed to grant an indulgence to waive the requirement that candidates for First and Second Vice Presidents should have served two years on a National Committee .
27 ( If ) At any time within a year the said Wm Roe by writing in his own band signified that he intended to have a 21 year lease from the date hereof " paying one-fifteenth part of the 1st 7 years and one-twelfth for the remaining 14 years such lease will be executed . "
28 The Profitboss goes out of his way to discourage report-writing : to do so he will go out of his way to walk the patch and give ( or obtain ) thirty-second verbal reports .
29 * BP Chemicals said its total emissions from major sites fell by 4,000 tonnes to 154,000 tonnes in 1992 when it published its second annual emissions report .
30 BNFL took a further step along the road of its partnership with schools when about 100 employees from throughout the company converged on Risley for the second annual governors ' seminar .
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