Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twenty-five dealers specialising in drawings and paintings are joined for the first time by Colnaghi who opened a small Paris branch in May and are keeping their exhibits a closely guarded secret . |
| 2 | Representatives of the United Kingdom and Argentine governments were joined for the first time by a Falklands official in talks on fishing controls held in the Argentinian capital , Buenos Aires , in May 1991 . |
| 3 | North-East champion Brian Rushworth finished a best-ever 11th in the senior men 's race , which was won for the second time by Commonwealth Games 10,000 metres gold medallist Eamonn Martin , of Basildon . |
| 4 | The Prix de l'Avenir — Marne la Vallée , worth F30,000 was won for the first time by kayak paddler Bernard Bregeon . |
| 5 | He hopes to be challenging for the first team by Christmas . |
| 6 | In conclusion , I 'd like to warn Ben that the Plage route at Buoux is n't his project , but one which was undertaken and tried for the first time by Le Menestrel , and that he has no particular rights over it . |
| 7 | The trend towards a form of social colonisation was accentuated throughout the nineteenth century by the perceived otherness of the working class , condemned , it was believed , to sexual rampancy and immorality , and often even physically different from the more leisured classes . |
| 8 | ‘ Modern ’ type-faces , first designed in the 18th century by men like Bodoni and Baskerville , emphasised the contrast between the thick and thin parts of a letter . |
| 9 | Conference participants agreed that regular meetings would be preceded in the first instance by a meeting in September of arms control experts who would finalize details of an agreement in time for a plenary session scheduled for October . |
| 10 | All applications will be considered in the first instance by one of six regional short listing panels , each regional panel will consist of a professional recruitment consultant and two people independent of government and I shall select those I wish to appoint as members of police authorities from the short list . |
| 11 | The oddest is that used in the fourteenth century by the English historian Adam of Murimuth . |
| 12 | The empire of Charlemagne was divided in the ninth century , and its eastern division came to be dominated in the tenth century by the now Christianized Saxons . |
| 13 | The slightest hint of rigour in ‘ cold ’ is alleviated in the next line by ‘ gold ’ . |
| 14 | Amidst patriotic excitement , it was won on the last stage by a Frenchman , Jean Robic . |
| 15 | As I expected , the hon. Gentleman responded to the last intervention by saying that a Labour Government would simply reintroduce rates . |
| 16 | The 20th session of the World Economic Forum , a meeting of senior economists from some 60 industrialized countries , was held in Davos , Switzerland , on Feb. 1-6 , when the discussion was attended for the first time by representatives from Eastern Europe . |
| 17 | The annual meeting was attended for the first time by a Soviet delegation led by Viktor Gerashchenko in anticipation of full Soviet membership of the Fund and the Bank . |
| 18 | It was attended for the first time by observers from China and France , neither of which was a signatory of the treaty . |
| 19 | In what is being seen as the first licensing by Apple Computer Inc of its Macintosh technology , the company has signed an OEM agreement that enables Honeywell Inc to use the Mac interface in avionics systems : Honeywell will use the technology to drive management information systems for commercial airline cockpits , building an Electronic Library System incorporating an adapted avionics version of Apple 's Macintosh Quadra 800 high-end box . |
| 20 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
| 21 | The clinical diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma was made after the first assessment by the clinician in 13 cases ; four of five cases with carcinoma and nine of 88 without carcinoma giving a sensitivity of 80% and specificity of 90% . |
| 22 | The analysis draws throughout on the work done in the last decade by Gruber ( 1974 ) , Herbert ( 1974 , 1977 ) , Ghiselin ( 1975 ) , Ruse ( 1975a , b ; 1979 ) , Schweber ( 1977 , 1980 ) , Kottler ( 1978 ) , Manier ( 1978 ) , Sulloway ( 1979 , 1982a , b ) , Kohn ( 1980 ) , Ospovat ( 1981 ) , and Sloan ( 1983a , b ) and is derived from studies by the present writer ( Hodge , 1982 , 1986 ; Hodge & Kohn , 1986 ) where full reference is made to the documentary sources and secondary literature . |
| 23 | The lecture modules selected in the first term by individual students determine the ‘ flavour ’ of the degree course to be followed , and may indeed determine its title . |
| 24 | Given this mixture of affective and schizophrenic features a modern psychiatric diagnosis for Margery Kempe would most likely be ‘ schizoaffective psychosis ’ , precipitated in the first instance by childbirth . |
| 25 | The word algebra derives from the word al-jabr which appears in the title of a book written in the 9th Century by the Persian mathematician Mohammed Al-Khowarizimi ( from whose name comes the word algorithm ) . |
| 26 | ‘ The Collector ’ is arranged in three parts , each told in the first person by Clegg , Miranda , then Clegg again . |
| 27 | The truth of the matter is that the bridge was built in the mid-18th century by James Essex to a design by W. Etheridge , an undergraduate . |
| 28 | Bothwell Castle was built in the 13th century by Walter of Moray , a descendant of Freskin , Lord of Duffus . |
| 29 | This quinta was originally built in the nineteenth century by an Englishman , James David Gordon . |
| 30 | It has very interesting old cloisters built in the fifteenth century by order of Zarco 's son , João Gonçalves da Cãmara . |