Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Extract 7 , from B-4 , on the other hand , the overlapping talk does not commence until after the first part of Brenda 's Creole stretch . |
| 2 | It was a terrible disappointment , my heart sank as for the first time I detected a stiffness in Leo 's voice . |
| 3 | Rarely can St Augustine 's dictum that bands of brigands are but petty kingdoms without justice ( City of God , iv , 4 ) have been so easily comprehended as in the eleventh century . |
| 4 | Cecil King , Daily Mirror chairman , preferred ‘ to wait until after the second bankruptcy ’ . |
| 5 | Only 5 per cent of women want a child within the first year , and 12 per cent prefer to wait until after the fifth year of marriage . |
| 6 | Most of us have not really solved that puzzle even today , but what did the question look like in the eighteenth century ? |
| 7 | Eta ( 3.9 ) , in the Y , was ranked as of the second magnitude in ancient times , but as it is an A-type star it is not likely that there has been any real change in it . |
| 8 | Cotton topped the bill at the London Coliseum in 1939 and was such a hit that he was offered a 16-week provincial tour , never realised because of the Second World War . |
| 9 | In some ca centres that 's justified because of the sixth form |
| 10 | In the mid-eighteenth century the linen industry made its appearance , though power looms had to wait till after the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution . |
| 11 | For that reason , the result of the appeal may not be made known until after the last race on 5 November . |
| 12 | In 1965 the clash was more marked because for the first time the EEC was seriously attempting to inaugurate a common policy . |
| 13 | If the sense of the magnetic field is irrelevant , but the same physics applies as for the first reversal , the pole that starts at the North Geographic Pole must once again pass through the Americas . |
| 14 | If it is pressed while on the first input field of a line , then the cursor will be placed on the last input field of the previous line . |
| 15 | Furthermore , if it is pressed while on the first input field of the first line of a scrolled area , then it has the same effect as EXIT SCROLLED AREA BACKWARDS , described below . |
| 16 | If it is pressed while on the last input field of a line , then the cursor will be moved to the first input field of the next line . |
| 17 | Furthermore , if it is pressed while on the last input field of the last line of a scrolled area , then it has the same effect as EXIT SCROLLED AREA FORWARDS , described below . |
| 18 | Mrs Belgrove , a 32-year-old agricultural graduate , started by hacking down trees and giant weeds , under which were plants such as sedum and aquilegia which had been hidden since before the First World War . |
| 19 | Even in the first year , when fewer than a third of Leeds primary schools were involved in PNP , this requirement accounted for 760 teacher-days ; but from year to year , as more and more schools became involved and as roles proliferated , the investment of time increased until in the fourth year it stood at 2,035 teacher-days . |
| 20 | The development value of St. Andrews square bus station is extremely difficult to assess because in the last year alone commercial property values in the centre of Edinburgh have literally doubled . |
| 21 | Neil Cochrane 's mouth tightened when for the first time Sally-Anne saw his face plain , and reacted by controlling her own , so that the shock which she had received was only momentarily shown . |
| 22 | They were allowed to lapse in the late nineteenth century and were not revived until after the last war . |
| 23 | Their own experiences at the Front , and the fact that in many of their villages and townships heavier losses had already been recorded than in the First World War , contradicted what Hitler had had to say . |
| 24 | He played his first match at the age of 17 for Gloucester in 1920 and continued until after the Second World War . |
| 25 | Regular air services , by aeroplane , did not start until after the First World War . |
| 26 | An initiation for prisoners had been established where for the first week officers were encouraged to violently beat and humiliate the new prisoner in nauseous ways . |
| 27 | Between 1912 and 1930 their most successful period was 1914–18 when all football was suspended because of the First World War . |
| 28 | Virtually the whole movement comprises a double canon which begins as in the second violin and viola parts given in Example 90 ( these parts first being played by first violin and viola ) : The point at which our example begins is the first entry of the full orchestra , with the first and second violins in one canon and the violas and basses in another . |