Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That turns the first part of the system off , ’ she explained . |
| 2 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 3 | You 've each won the first prize in our June competition of a Rohan Shearwater Gore-Tex jacket and pair of the company 's famous walking trousers , Rohan bags . |
| 4 | Delville Wood , lying on a ridge of high ground , was crucial to the Somme offensive , for its capture would allow the British to penetrate the second line of German defences . |
| 5 | The Labour Party claims that this represents the first stage in a policy of full market rents . |
| 6 | This represents the last entry to be proofed with all entries lying between the two headwords also being proofed |
| 7 | This represents the last entry to be proofed , with all entries lying between the two print sequence numbers also being proofed . |
| 8 | This represents the last entry to be cross-referenced with all entries lying between the two headwords also being cross-referenced . |
| 9 | This represents the last entry to be cross-referenced , with all entries lying between the two print sequence numbers also being cross-referenced . |
| 10 | If you have difficulty crossing the cables , in that some yarns are very stiff and resist crossovers , you may find it easier to work the next row of knitting by hand . |
| 11 | The discoverer — reputedly Ingolfur Arnarson after whom a fine peak near Þingvellir and Ingólfshöfdi is named — called the country ‘ Iceland ’ because of the ice he found there ; this created the first half-truth about the islands of the north . |
| 12 | This establishes the first part of the theorem . |
| 13 | This establishes the second part of Sylvester 's theorem . |
| 14 | I was very interested to receive the first edition of Nonesuch and to read that its name was derived from a flower connected with the City of Bristol — as a member of a 17th-century dance team , I had only previously come across Nonesuch as the name of a dance . |
| 15 | Map 12 shows the first floor of the Castle , and Map 13 shows the higher floors of the Great Tower . |
| 16 | Halstead Rotaract treasurer Emma Samms said : ‘ We thought we would do something different to mark the 25th anniversary of Rotaract . ’ |
| 17 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on June 30 released the first tranche worth US$647,000,000 of a US$2,200 million standby credit approved in September 1991 [ see p. 38439 ] . |
| 18 | This finds the next instance of the search text . |
| 19 | This removes the last shred of justification for the World Bank 's very existence . " |
| 20 | This meant the first change of name for the young Michael Smith ; he became known as Ingram , and there was no love lost between him and his stepfather . |
| 21 | 18–7 James McDonald , a servant at Islay House , asked for baptism for his child and this brought the first case of antenuptial fornication . |
| 22 | The capture of Côte 304 represented the first breach in the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had prescribed on taking up his command , and with it the stage was set for the final German attack on the Mort Homme , with the elder Falkenhayn once again in command . |
| 23 | In effect this represented the first retreat from Marxism 's prohibition on private ownership of the means of production since the abandonment in 1928 of Lenin 's New Economic Policy ( NEP ) . |
| 24 | This represented the first acknowledgment by the government that a rebellion was taking place . |
| 25 | This provokes the first nation into developing a 10-megaton bomb , which in turn provokes the second into making a 20-megaton bomb , and so on . |
| 26 | Also , when unc is reached , this gives the last row of R and hence also the last column , so that the eighth elements in unc can be written down , and so on . |
| 27 | When Norman recruited Sir Ian McGregor , this marked the first time in Britain that a nationalised industry chief had been appointed through executive search . |
| 28 | This marked the first launch of its kind in China . |
| 29 | This puts the second family at only just above income support levels and there is therefore a danger that one of the main effects of these changes will be to impoverish second families without directly helping first families . |
| 30 | A major Papal Encylical entitled Centesimus Annus issued on May 2 marked the 100th anniversary of the 1891 Encyclical Rerum Novarum . |