Example sentences of "[verb] by the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organic textbook market of the 1970s was dominated by the third edition of Robert Robert Boyd 's Organic Chemistry ( Allyn & Bacon , 1st ed 1959 ) . |
| 2 | Those Q.T. 's who have already received tickets to sell will greatly assist Cicely in the organisation of the event if they would let her know by the first week in February how many tickets they have sold as she will be away from 8th Feb. to 8th March . |
| 3 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 4 | Central to Thorngumbald was the blacksmith 's shop , hub of working activity for a large area , now rebuilt as a modern garage but still owned by the fourth generation of Willinghams . |
| 5 | Hawksmoor , which came out in 1985 , was preceded by the Eliot biography of 1984 , which was preceded by The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde of the year before , and in 1987 these annual events were pressed upon by Chatterton . |
| 6 | What this usually means is that payment is expected by the last day of the month following the month in which the invoice is issued . |
| 7 | The first Abba/E systems running under Unitree are expected by the fourth quarter of 1993 . |
| 8 | The first Abba/E systems running under Unitree are expected by the fourth quarter of 1993 . |
| 9 | Support for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT is to be added by the second quarter of next year . |
| 10 | Support for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT will be added by the second quarter of next year . |
| 11 | In the Exchequer , as we have seen , they had come by the sixteenth century to be usual even for so important an officer as the Chancellor . |
| 12 | ULSTER hockey 's senior league title will be decided by the last game of the programme on Saturday … and it wo n't involve Lisnagarvey , the team which has had a four-year reign as champions . |
| 13 | The returns also show how far those surnames which are peculiarly local in origin had ramified by the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 14 | They had joined the 401st within the previous ten days and this was the only loss suffered by the 615th Squadron on this mission . |
| 15 | The output produced by the pattern recogniser becomes the data that must be accepted by the first stage of this system . |
| 16 | Since 1979 , after the changes in party policies had been accepted by the Third Plenum of the CCP , a number of important measures had been taken . |
| 17 | Other neurons conduct impulses from the spinal cord to muscles and cause them to contract ; so the pain relayed by the first neurons might cause a limb to be moved by the second set of neurons . |
| 18 | Built by the first Earl of Northampton , Simon de Senlis , to commemorate his safe return from the Crusades . |
| 19 | The trial judge , however , directed the jury that there was no evidence available against the first appellant that he was acting in concert , and that the only evidence that there was a concerted attack came , if the jury accepted it , from statements made by the second appellant outwith the presence of the first appellant . |
| 20 | The attack against Beaumont-Hamel proved abortive , and a thrust made by the Third Army against Gommecourt failed utterly . |
| 21 | Newman , a decision in which the misappropriation theory was adopted by the Second Circuit for the first time , the court held that Newman had stolen information from his employer and had thereby breached his fiduciary duties to his employer and his employer 's clients . |
| 22 | Ayliffe chaired the committee which produced the draft of the new constitution which was adopted by the next Congress in Birmingham in 1922 . |
| 23 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 24 | In 1989 the same committee suggested that a possible slight shortage of doctors might occur by the first decade of the twenty first century . |
| 25 | A woman seeks the truth of her ancestry , and discovers truth can be what you want it to be ; in a hospital a neglected old man weaves fables in a lost language ; fantasy becomes reality when a young boy 's sense of wonder is awakened by the first man in space ; a man 's obsession with ‘ the dogs ’ has grim but farcical consequences ; a couple 's holiday in France is disturbed by the ghosts of war ; a chance encounter brings an unexpected delight to a birdwatcher . |
| 26 | The Montgomerie family finances continued on their downwards spiral until , in 1925 , they were so low that the contents of Eglinton Castle had to be auctioned off , including the suit of armour bought by the 13th Earl for the Tournament . |
| 27 | While the main west-to-east movement in the occupation of Siberia was accomplished by the first half of the eighteenth century , the frontiers of the Russian Empire continued to be pushed forward in various directions , thus bringing more peoples under its control . |
| 28 | An extra £250,000 was approved by the first meeting of the South Tees Acute Hospitals Trust for North Riding Infirmary to convert an in-patient ward into a day ward . |
| 29 | The mention of suspension is of interest : that the cause of it — truancy — is not only a 20th century phenomenon is shown by the next paragraph of the Report : " The parent of George Highton who had been suspended on account of frequent absence attended by order of the Deputation and stated that he had 3 boys in the School and that the one complained of was so refractory as to be beyond his management and would not attend as he should , frequently persuading his Brothers to follow his example and having gone into service he wished him to be dismissed , which was done , and the parent was informed that if the other two were not more regular in their attendance they would also be discharged . " |
| 30 | Un-expected frequency changes are always offered by the last controller in the UK , alleviating a panic reference to paperwork . |