Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many kings in the past have kept collections of animals and in the 12th Century A.D. King Henry I founded the first British zoo . |
| 2 | Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) . |
| 3 | Sam Reed had set up two of the goals and in the second half it was his cross that led to Grant 's second goal . |
| 4 | His success at Brisbane and in the fifth Test , followed by a century for Victoria against the Englishmen , sealed his reputation . |
| 5 | This year BMW will make about 580,000 cars and for the first time outstrip Mercedes . |
| 6 | All the trouble and strife is behind you today is a golden glow beh today , a golden glow begins to settle over all of your relationships and during the next month many of you may be thinking of making serious commitments . |
| 7 | We had about six or seven weeks to finish the album and by the last week , I did n't have a vocal on two of the tracks and this is where it actually began — David writing on microphone . |
| 8 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 9 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 10 | The entrance is by a flight of steps and from the first floor . |
| 11 | Before describing and assessing the binomial and Black and Scholes option pricing models it is appropriate at this point to examine the factors which are expected to influence option premiums and in the next section to have a brief look at the various investment strategies that may be created with options and securities . |
| 12 | Digital Equipment Corp has announced that it will offer a new hub backplane , code-named One Hub , in early 1993 , plugging the gap at the high end of the DEChub 90 range and for the first time offering Ethernet , Token Ring , and the Fibre Distributed Data Interface , FDDI , at first , and Asynchronous Transfer Mode high-speed networking technology , when it becomes available , in one product . |
| 13 | It is a language that needs a large memory capacity and for the first time there were machines available to use it . |
| 14 | Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite . |
| 15 | My father 's tour with 112 Squadron finished at the end of May and on the 31st Sgt Pilot Davis flew FX740 for the first and last time , sadly being shot down by ack-ack in the vicinity of Frosinone , south of Rome . |
| 16 | Karnival , another high profile area of the Students ' Union , concentrates its work on fund raising and in the last year raised over £100,000 for various charities . |
| 17 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 18 | Seven minutes into the second period Gavin Currie got his name on the score sheet with Atkins the provider and in the 47th minute Mervyn Cooke scored from the edge of the circle . |
| 19 | Susan followed her down a short , dark passage and into the second sitting-room , which , ugly and over-full as it was , looked comparatively cheerful with its blazing fire . |
| 20 | The Festival of Britain , 1951 , was designed to tell the world that we were back in business , full of vim and zip , bursting with new ideas , new teeth in the new bulldog , through another war with honour and into the second half of the twentieth century with eagerness and confidence . |
| 21 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 22 | Captain Ally McKay grabbed a try in the first half and in the second half a brace of tries from his wing forward partner Watson secured the winning margin . |
| 23 | In 1866 Stirling succeeded Archibald Sturrock as locomotive superintendent of the Great Northern Railway at Doncaster and in the next year his 0–4–2 type mixed-traffic locomotive was first introduced , with construction continuing over the next twenty-eight years , as well as the 2–4–0 type for passenger service . |
| 24 | The French influence here was even greater than in Spain and in the eleventh century the northern region had broken free to become a satellite of Burgundy , though later it became independent . |
| 25 | As they come to the final fence Second Schedule being pressed by Ebony Jane and Bishops Hall on the nearside and over the last Second Schedule and Bishops Hall on the nearside , Ebony Jane in third , in fourth place is Joe White and racing into the closing stages it 's Second Schedule with Bishops Hall on the nearside Graham Bradley again as they go to the line , Bishops Hall wins it for Harry , Second Schedule is second , Joe White is third , Ebony Jane four . |
| 26 | The couple begin to lead separate lives and for the first time there is public concern over the marriage . |
| 27 | There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered . |
| 28 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 29 | Over the centuries the border has moved more than a little — for instance in 1917 , Alsace was part of Germany and during the last war it was again occupied by the Germans . |
| 30 | Samways made a vital interception to snatch the ball off Taylor 's foot and in the 71st minute Thomas hammered the ball inches wide from a Connolly pass cleverly dummied by substitute Steve Watkin . |