Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE furnace which powered the last bastion of North Wales 's once-mighty steel industry was last night on its way to China . |
| 2 | In the country of Giurgiu , to the south of the capital , Ceauşescu himself supervised the first demolitions at the end of July 1988 . |
| 3 | But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood . |
| 4 | George Stephenson himself drove the first passenger train on Tuesday 27 September 1825 . |
| 5 | Several of you are already subscribed twice in this way — as a result of the confusion which occured the last time the Oxford mailer was messed about with . |
| 6 | Such aspects of Fascist economics were almost an anticipation of Labour government policy in the crises which followed the Second World War . |
| 7 | The second part is a quantitative study which complements the first part . |
| 8 | But unlike most schools which set the 2nd MB at the end of the second year of the course , before the students start their clinical studies , Southampton has moved the exam to the end of the third ( first clinical ) year . |
| 9 | Theodora leaned over the white rail fence which formed the fourth side of Yaxlee 's yard . |
| 10 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
| 11 | He plunged on the bomber and raked it from tail to nose ; then let his dive carry him under it and pulled up in time to plant a burst in its belly before climbing into a half-roll which brought the next plane almost within range . |
| 12 | Most of the prototypes of both civil and military aircraft which followed the Second World War were fitted with both still and movie cameras for recording specially fitted instrument panels , but their use was confined to test flying and performance proving . |
| 13 | He was describing Odd-Knut 's Volvo which arrived the next morning , the like of which I have yet to see again . |
| 14 | The historical sketch included in Macdonald 's 1904 survey of women in the printing trades states that it was indeed the pupils of Merchant Company Schools who formed the first recruits , and that these were " a better class of girl " , sometimes described as " stickit " ( would-be ) teachers . |
| 15 | The British sweet tooth was cultivated by sugar traders who formed the third side of the triangular slave trade : British cotton goods were exported to Africa , African slaves to the West Indies and West Indian sugar to Britain . |
| 16 | From videofilms shown to reporters in Saudi Arabia , and the reports of the few journalists who spent the first days of the war in Baghdad , other successful hits can be independently verified . |
| 17 | Looking unusually demure , Jennie Walker who became the second Mrs Tiller |
| 18 | Thank you for the compliment you paid the last edition of Rural Wales . |
| 19 | In the last issue of Action we published the first portion of the international Study and Action Programme which was launched in July this year by WACC 's Central Committee . |
| 20 | mummy he had the last cherry bakewell |
| 21 | For Bede he became the fifth overlord of all the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber ( HE II , 5 ) . |
| 22 | School Mission had first been conceived by Edward Thring , headmaster of Uppingham , but it was Eton which opened the first club in 1880 , followed by Harrow in 1883 . |
| 23 | The large urban local authorities which remain the last bastion of Labour power have tried to undercut New Right attacks by improving the efficiency and quality of their services , and becoming more responsive to their users ( Fenwick 1989 ; Young 1991 ) . |
| 24 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 25 | In the history of the six generations which succeeded the first H.O . |
| 26 | In the centre is a long paper fastener which permits the second circle to spin round so that the picture will appear in the window . |
| 27 | The ‘ middle class ’ designation has retained some validity for so long , covering such disparate socio-economic categories , largely because of the remarkable tenacity of the amalgam of cultural values which characterised the nineteenth century middle classes : part bourgeois ( thrift , independence ) and part acquired from the aristocracy and gentry ( respectability , ‘ gentlemanly ’ behaviour ) . |
| 28 | An example may be found in Mozart 's third sentence from the Andante just quoted : This looks quite different from the previous section ( Example 26 ) , yet it is really made up of semiquaver groups which end the second sentence , with the addition of the dotted rhythm which begins the second full bar of the music . |
| 29 | During the Second World War , the United States operated a ‘ bare-shelves ’ policy towards grain stocks , fearing a repeat of the price crash which followed the First World War . |
| 30 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |