Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 2 | The favourite still seemed to be going well enough , however , and the adoring masses were not particularly worried as the leading group — Ten of Spades and Desert Orchid , with Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin close behind — thundered down towards the third last fence . |
| 3 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 4 | This ambitious piece of engineering , extending for 12 miles between Peterborough and Wisbech , survives today , although the tower Morton built from which to watch over his work-force crumbled away in the early nineteenth century . |
| 5 | TEXAN oil and gas exploration minnow Aviva Petroleum sank back into the red last year with an $8.7m loss , against 1990 's $537,000 profit , on revenue down from $12.2m to $9.3m . |
| 6 | MacWhirter , though settled in London from his middle years on , was a Scottish painter whose best work was in the tradition of landscape painting traced back to the early seventeenth century . |
| 7 | Two further operations to her left wrist were carried out on the twenty seventh of January nineteen eighty nine and the twenty sixth of April nineteen eighty nine . |
| 8 | The position changed again in the early fifteenth century , when Ladislas of Naples , who aspired to the throne of Hungary , sold his claims over Dalmatia , Zeta and Albania to the Venetians . |
| 9 | Hari was seated in the small shed at the side of the house bent industriously over the wooden last . |
| 10 | Holywood got through to the final last year so they will be hoping for another good run this year . |
| 11 | Like Denny , Eamon McAuley came in from the cold last night for a good win ( pts 6 ) over Manchester visitor Russell Davidson . |
| 12 | George veered away from the obvious next question which he was sure Mr Nightingale would n't answer . |
| 13 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 14 | In Kingshams Field , the bank was apparently partly levelled or cut away by the mid third century at least , prior to the construction of a stone building with a courtyard to the south . |
| 15 | The town has grown up around the magnificent 13th century Scaliger castle which towers above the water from a sheer rock and offers the most fantastic views . |
| 16 | We do n't break up till the twenty eighth . |
| 17 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 18 | Well erm he came back on the twenty fourth , no , never mind that we we 've been to-ing and fro-ing have Asian Associates and I and |
| 19 | Public expenditure control has a long history dating back to the early eighteenth century . |
| 20 | Many of the wagons , dating back to the late nineteenth century , were requisitioned during the First World War and purchased , from R.N.A.D. Bandeath on its closure , by the S.R.P.S. |
| 21 | ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ lay a quarter of a mile up-river , and dated back to the early seventeenth century , a long , low , white-painted house on a terrace cunningly clear of the flood level of the Comer , and with ideal fishing water for some hundreds of yards on either side of it . |
| 22 | It was built mainly between the late eleventh century and 1197 . |
| 23 | General von Bothmer 's Sürmé sited roughly between the Russian Eleventh and Seventh armies , delayed Brusilov 's advance , as did General von Linsingen 's troops opposite the extreme Russian right in the area of Kovel . |
| 24 | It roared back into the black last year to the tune of £6.8 million , compared with taxable losses in 1991 of £1.2 million . |
| 25 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |
| 26 | this is erm , this is going to be exhibited here on the twenty third of July , ok , erm , two , two of Gaugin 's pictures , this is one of them , and several other artists er of the same period , and I think this is going to be the only venue in , in England , I do n't think there coming , sort of worth seeing , but unfortunately I shall miss it cos I 'm , I wo n't be here , erm this is a poster of |
| 27 | The development of an elite theory which dared to call itself such came about in the late nineteenth century as a reaction particularly against the radical egalitarian democratic ideals of Karl Marx and the Western European socialist movements . |
| 28 | Looking ahead to the early twenty-first century , the smaller size of nuclear families in the late twentieth century makes it evident that there will be fewer relatives about to share family care although it is likely that many fewer people will be childless ( Rossiter and Wicks , 1982 , p. 66 ) . |
| 29 | Such moments happened mostly during the ungodly first hours of a new day , those breathless hours when a soul sighs away from a dying body . |
| 30 | These provisions define the basis for the highly complex cursus honorum of the learned profession which finally became fully elaborated only in the early eighteenth century . |