Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthey Electronics Burslem has for the third successive year won the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety . |
| 2 | Beta testing starts during the first quarter of 1993 , with commercial availability expected by year-end . |
| 3 | Everyday objects are of course the stock-in-trade of Arman , whose retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum continues until the 26th of this month . |
| 4 | Once Arthur is in the boat Bedivere realises for the first time that ‘ the true old times are dead ’ . |
| 5 | As dialogue continues down on the floor the Inlay Operator prepares for the first of his ‘ big moments ’ ; the establishing shot of the city as seen by the time-travellers . |
| 6 | Waqar Younis celebrates the key wicket of the England captain as the home side slumps in the second innings . |
| 7 | Cotton wool falls into the first category . |
| 8 | Much of the main three storey mill dates from the mid-19th century , although a large part of this is masked by the addition of later industrial plant and buildings . |
| 9 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
| 10 | They may be hampered in the efficient winding up of your affairs by the limited powers Parliament gives to the next of kin in these circumstances . |
| 11 | ANDRE AGASSI will claim a slice of unwanted history if his Wimbledon defence falters at the first hurdle next Monday . |
| 12 | The UK government has for the first time ruled out the award of oil and gas exploration licences in certain areas on environmental grounds . |
| 13 | A developmental progression of toilet training emerges during the first four years of life . |
| 14 | Your finger ring dates to the 15th century and is gold on silver . |
| 15 | Taking enforcement action requires in the first place techniques to bring deviance to light . |
| 16 | Sales promotion falls into the first category . |
| 17 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 18 | The most popular period for BES investment occurs in the last three months of the tax year as investors begin to think about reducing tax liabilities ; the early autumn sees a second surge as investors can claim up to half the tax relief for the previous year on investments made before 6 October ( subject to a maximum of £5,000 ) . |
| 19 | There is still a great deal for CAMRA to do to ensure that a wide-ranging and diversified brewing industry survives into the 20th century . |
| 20 | The objective fossil record starts with the first Ediacaran assemblages ( 560–600 million years ( Myr ) ago ) , but some evidence suggests that metazoans were already in existence as early as 800–1000Myr ago . |
| 21 | This year 's International Air Tattoo coincides with the 75th anniversary of the RAF , and to mark the occasion the organisers are determined its going to be the most spectacular yet . |
| 22 | If road traffic doubles within the next 20-25 years as forecast , then the number of annual road vehicle crossings of the Forth could conceivably reach 40 million by the early part of the next century . |
| 23 | The main branch of the Bonsai Society meets on the second Friday of every month in Cregagh Library . |
| 24 | The availability of sequence data from two mosaic genes of P.wickerhamii mitochondria allows for the first time a comparison of algal intron positions with those from fungi and liverwort . |
| 25 | Before the dummy is placed on the table , declarer 's left hand opponent leads to the first trick . |
| 26 | The recall re-presents come back in two phases erm one tape will come back on the fifteenth of April , the second tape will come back on the sixteenth of April which means that those policies , when status report runs on the fifteenth of April it will only assess those policies erm that have had |
| 27 | It was built in brick over a long period ; the east end dates from the ninth century and the west from the tenth and eleventh while the vaults are mainly twelfth century . |
| 28 | The training tempo increases over the next few weeks … as cox and crew alike attempt to learn all they can about the famous course . |
| 29 | It broke Tony Cottee … and the Everton striker reveals for the first time the enormous cost of carrying the tag of Britain 's costliest player . |
| 30 | During a glaciation , the streams draining the neck of land will be rejuvenated and will tend to cut into the neck of land , which will be partly flooded when sea level rises in the next interglacial . |