Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 2 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 3 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 4 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 5 | It met for the first time on 25 February 1986 and includes representatives from the Departments of Transport , Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry ; Kent County Council ; the district councils of ; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies ; Eurotunnel ; Transmanche Link ; and British Rail . |
| 6 | They all met for the first time on the show . |
| 7 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 8 | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , in January [ see p. 38710 ] was formed on Feb. 13 under the chairmanship of Col. Mohammed al-Amin Khalifah ; it met for the first time on Feb. 24 in the building which formerly housed the National Assembly — the elected parliament overthrown by Bashir in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 9 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 10 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 11 | Such is the force of tradition that when the newly instituted Parliament of Northern Ireland met for the first time in 1921 , its first act was to claim these ‘ undoubted and ancient privileges ’ . |
| 12 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 13 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 14 | In the report the former President , Chiang Kai-shek was criticized for the first time for failing to punish the officials responsible for the massacre . |
| 15 | Filled for the first time in twenty years , Lake Eyre became a rich source of food , attracting tens of thousands of birds whose closest usual breeding area is five hundred miles to the south . |
| 16 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 17 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 18 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 19 | He tried to empty his mind of all thoughts , preparing for what only the most naive would fail to see as the last meeting of the Academy . |
| 20 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 21 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 22 | Each party to the conference , including the Palestinian representation , was understood to have received during the second half of October a separate " letter of assurances ' from the US government . |
| 23 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
| 24 | Nor should it be forgotten , as Professor Orth has pointed out , that in 1799 penalties were prescribed for the first time for workmen as a class , not for hatters or paper makers as a special group ; in other words , the language of the act was concerned with a horizontal social division , not with the reconciliation of difference within the vertical structure of a craft . |
| 25 | On Oct. 25 Costa Rica was ratified as the 100th member of the General Treaty on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 26 | During the relaying of this track , the Marton trams operated in a complete circle , returning to Talbot Square via Royal Oak and Lytham Road , while the St. Annes blue cars were diverted for the first time to the Promenade at Talbot Square . |
| 27 | This will ship during the first quarter of this year . |
| 28 | A 7 day tour to Poland , open to CIT members , spouses , and colleagues has been arranged for the first week of July , boasting a programme , both transport orientated and cultural . |
| 29 | In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago . |
| 30 | More detail is given for the first part on document preparation systems as this has been developed into the HyperCard system described below . |