Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [num ord] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what thoughts will be going through your mind when you send out the last Grand National runner ? |
| 2 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 3 | This research will carry out the first national random sample of Labour Party members . |
| 4 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 5 | Also on Dec. 23 , leading intellectuals set up the first independent human rights monitoring group , the Forum for the Defence of Human Rights , which set itself the goal of the release of all political prisoners . |
| 6 | This research project aims to carry out the first national random sample of Conservative party members in order to explore some of the most important questions concerning their role and importance both within the Conservative party itself and additionally within the wider political system . |
| 7 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | The same economic difficulties held up the last great station-building project in Canada . |