Example sentences of "[num ord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials underwent no formal education in the eighteenth century , and in the early nineteenth the level of education in the provincial offices remained very low . |
| 2 | That report was sent to our national executive committee and on May the nineteenth the leader of the Labour party stated and I quote , the plant committee concludes that different elected bodies can be chosen by different electoral systems , that is the view which I share and I support the proposals made both for a reformed second chamber and the European parliament . |
| 3 | The murder was on the 12th , the 13th found him in Farnham , the 15th in Petersfield , and on the 17th the fugitive was in Portsmouth , trying desperately to join the Marines . |
| 4 | On May 17th the krona was pegged to the ecu , within 1.5% either side of a central rate of SKr7.40 . |
| 5 | On the 17th the bunkers are on the left , so Seve missed the fairway to the right and hacks over all the trouble up the right , pitches on and the crowd are all shouting ‘ get in ’ . |
| 6 | This force is effective at distances of one hundredth the diameter of the proton , or 10 -15 cm . |
| 7 | From June 6th–14th the charity hopes one million people will walk one mile and each raise £1 for the appeal . |
| 8 | These will run on December 22nd and 29th the Sundays before and after Christmas . |
| 9 | The second the door shut behind the two women , Bumface attacked . |
| 10 | President , Congress , Sheila , South Western region , pleased to second the composite . |
| 11 | However , attempts to translate the Geographical Information Systems Tutor ( GISTutor ) ( Raper and Green 1989 ) into a number of European languages have encountered two main difficulties : first , the local adoption of English for spatial terms ( and therefore concepts ? ) due to the English lexicon of most commercially available GlS , and second the difficulty of providing for translation of terms with no direct counterpart . |
| 12 | Dr Frank Weymouth Sailing Club , I would like to second the proposition that Messrs continue in office . |
| 13 | But in the second the word ‘ ride ’ suggests that the man is doing something to the horse . |
| 14 | The first was the Legend of St Sylvester and the Donation of Constantine , the second the triumph of the legitimate popes over the anti-popes of the early twelfth century , and the third the settlement of the Investiture Contest . |
| 15 | The first is the willingness to mount genuine experimental projects ( as distinct from ‘ trial ’ or ‘ experimental ’ schools in curriculum projects committed from the very start to widespread implementation ) , the second the building up of machinery for curriculum development at local level . |
| 16 | In the second the press is restrained by its own professional Code of Practice not to misrepresent or mislead the public . |
| 17 | I object er er yes I would like to , I would like to er second the resolutions , this , there is er , there is er a certainly a great deal of concern within the community both those er who live within reach of , of , of , of car boot sale erm er sites in particular the ones that are regular and also the people who attend them and get ripped off , that we need to do something about er bringing er the er , er at to add , add to law into range of , of the people who of , of people who er er of of people who er sell er of people who sell those goods at these at these functions . |
| 18 | In the second the observations of a character are noted : the metaphor is muted . |
| 19 | In the first the message is received in full and is then given out to the person ; in the second the message is received and is simultaneously translated into the second language . |
| 20 | In the first Test , Robin Smith looked like an elephant learning to knit , but in the second the message transmission service from head to feet was reconnected . |
| 21 | First , the payment of various forms of allowances to council members , and second the transforming of the role into a full-time occupation similar to that of a Member of Parliament . |
| 22 | For a full equilibrium two conditions must be fulfilled : first the economy must be at the natural level of unemployment , where expectations of inflation are correct ; and second the government must have no incentive to fool people by stimulating aggregate demand . |
| 23 | In the second the assembly process is easy and the overall design simple but the items themselves are expensive and difficult to produce . |
| 24 | In the second the assembly process is easy and the overall design simple but the items themselves are expensive and difficult to produce . |
| 25 | I have in mind two especially : the first involves what might be called the impossibility of desire , the second the notion of desire and/or identity as involving an ineluctable splitting . |
| 26 | The first is Mrs Whitehouse 's emphasis on the power of television as a medium , the second the notion of the ‘ new morality ’ which was widely used in the mid-1960s and which Mrs Whitehouse focused upon in her attacks on both broadcasting and the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians . |
| 27 | The first term represents the genetic transmission ; the second the advantage provided by parental wealth ( relative to the mean ) ; is the stochastic term distributed independently of N , B ( and Β ) , and across generations , with constant mean and variance . |
| 28 | In the second the end user develops an idea for a new product that is beyond the present vision of the industry and brings it to the attention of a manufacturer or industry . |
| 29 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |
| 30 | Second the fact that God 's personal self-disclosure in the Bible was given in terms of the hearers ' own culture inevitably means that misunderstanding may arise and points be missed when read by people of another culture who are unfamiliar with the cultural milieu of the Bible . |