Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] ' [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Institute 's standards , for example , training organisations are expected to pay for the students ' first examination attempt . |
| 2 | Elland Road , home of England 's football champions Leeds United , was the stage for the Springboks ' third game of their four-match tour , and the North Division took up the gauntlet . |
| 3 | It was Lear 's example that provided the impetus for the Goulds ' first publication , and it was Lear who later transformed Gould 's static and unimaginative style into the confident and innovative work that characterised his second and all subsequent publications . |
| 4 | Within two minutes Mike Hall put Peter Dods in for the Barbarians ' third try , and another four followed in a procession interrupted by one for Newport by John Thomas . |
| 5 | The tie is sponsored by Carmen Furniture , appropriate to the musical chairs likely for the Scots ' second outing and key to qualification for the knock-out stages — against Canada — where the intention is that Tony Stanger and Carl Hogg will play . |
| 6 | Swooping in on a spilled pass he gathered one-handed on the run for the winners ' fourth try , one that Rees just failed to convert . |
| 7 | Baker did well apart from losing possession for the Saints ' third goal while Wark earned a first half booking for a challenge on Banger . |
| 8 | South African tour manager Abie Malan , preparing for the tourists ' first game with England since 1984 , said : ‘ I am disappointed to hear such news on the eve of the last important match of our tour , one which the ANC publicly approved . |
| 9 | Walters landed a second penalty in the opening minute of the second-half before wing Wayne Proctor squeezed in at the left corner for the tourists ' third try . |
| 10 | This was partly due to the timescale involved ( the commitment to privatise during the Conservatives ' third term ruled out any complex break-up ) , but was also due to the problems involved with the nuclear industry . |
| 11 | However , promises were made to shift the emphasis of policy during the Conservatives ' third term towards reforming the private rented sector of the housing market . |
| 12 | The very day after the judges ' first meeting , the slenderness of the chances of anything being built , as a result of the competition , was publicly revealed . |
| 13 | The gathering of about 90 delegates from most Highland denominations took place a year after the churches ' first AIDS conference . |
| 14 | The windows are open to the night , spilling the sound of the pretenders ' first album out over the slope of grass towards the small loch and the lights of the library and Admin buildings on the far side . |
| 15 | By the end of the colleges ' last school year on 31 August , nearly £19 million had been contributed to city technology colleges by the private sector . |
| 16 | Harrison took the stage just hours after snubbing — along with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr — a party to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of the Beatles ' first hit Love Me Do . |
| 17 | Shots of the Kinnocks ' 25th wedding anniversary party portrayed Neil the family man , dancing the anniversary waltz with Glenys to Larry Adler 's solo harmonica , watched by daughter Rachel , striking in a red dress . |
| 18 | The " shape " of a process ' first step will be a mixture of possibilities from the above . |
| 19 | The Manchester outrage is a considerable escalation from the terrorists ' last attempt to place bombs in the city almost a year ago to the day . |
| 20 | A trade union was now to become , in the Webbs ' first definition ‘ a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment ’ , a definition later altered so as to refer to ‘ working lives ’ rather than ‘ employment ’ . |
| 21 | Chelsea-bound Kharin was due to make his farewell appearance for CSKA Moscow in the Scots ' second match of the champions ' league in Bochum . |
| 22 | Now the tourists find themselves the underdogs with Will Carling expected to lead England to their third win in the sides ' 10th meeting . |
| 23 | I am not kidding you : for this high-level encounter he goes to the news-agents ' next door and gets the key that hangs behind the counter . |
| 24 | Doing up an 18th-century house is small beer compared to the Stewarts ' next project . |
| 25 | As to the kidnappers ' next step , she was confused but pessimistic . |
| 26 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |