Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the European political reality until the twentieth century was one of disunity and conflict , culminating in the two World Wars . |
| 2 | On 29 April , 1986 H.M. Treasury and the Bank of England announced changes in existing regulations to allow the issue of Sterling-denominated Commercial Paper and the first issue was launched on 20 May 1986 . |
| 3 | I 'm fed up to here with being liked and admired and called a proper bloody goldmine and the next Barbra Streisand . |
| 4 | The second guy did n't even hit half that distance and the third took a couple of swings to send his ball skewing off at right angles . |
| 5 | He 's going back to do skiing he 's a holiday , and then he 's gon na buy , he 's got this wee car but the next thing when he goes back he 's getting |
| 6 | Whether it is an ambition to help Watsonians to win the Division One title or Scotland to win another Grand Slam or the next World Cup , you have to have in mind just what you seek to achieve . |
| 7 | We look forward to another successful season and the next 21 years . ’ |
| 8 | It is on this last issue that the third , and the most popular , definition of deindustrialization focuses : the absolute decline in manufacturing employment , Figure 2.3 plots the data from Figure 2.2 in absolute rather than relative terms . |
| 9 | And what better time to consider this dead end than the twentieth anniversary of 1967 , that pivotal point at which sixties beat music leapt into the beyond , and the very notion of ‘ the progressive ’ was born . |
| 10 | Scotch is Scotland 's second largest export and the fifth largest manufactured export emanating from the UK — being exported currently to over 185 countries worldwide . |
| 11 | You may decide that you wish to eat less in future and send the money you save to a worthy cause — but it 's far too late to do anything now with that extra roast potato or the last spoonful of pudding . |
| 12 | Rose gave a tiny stifled scream and the third person in the bay window proved itself to be a young man by throwing back his head and shouting with laughter . |
| 13 | This had caused such abnormal interest that the next time he was asked he said that he worked in a garage . |
| 14 | Platt becomes England 's 32nd post-war captain and the fifth leader in 28 matches under Graham Taylor . |
| 15 | The oddity is that the jurist seems to deal only with the second question , which is of much less complexity than the first . |
| 16 | The pair made the longest unsupported polar journey and the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic land mass . |
| 17 | Dr Allan said the two men were bearing up well and were in better condition than had been expected after making the longest unsupported polar trip and the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic landmass . |
| 18 | In spite of their exhaustion , their jubilation at making the longest unsupported polar trip and the first unsupported crossing of Antarctica was unmistakeable . |
| 19 | So this group of fifteen here that 's your five pound between you and then we 'll go onto the second group of fifteen people and they could have the second five pound and the third and the fourth and so on . |
| 20 | Later in December , three meetings were held in one day — those of the Bondholders ' , the Club 's first Annual General Meeting and the first committee meeting of the constitutionally elected members — Anker Simmons chairing the first two and Dr. J. Susman the third . |
| 21 | The first wholly non-communist Bulgarian government since the Second World War , formed following the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) victory in the October general election [ see p. 38539 ] , took office on Nov. 8 , when the National Assembly approved the Cabinet by 128 votes to 90 . |
| 22 | 50 years between the collapse of the central Gaulish industry and the first appearance of British samian forms copied , most probably from the products of the factories of East Gaul . |
| 23 | ‘ We were flying our usual tight formation that the 401st was famous for , with the wings overlapping ’ . |
| 24 | Main boomed out to port , genoa to starboard , they ghosted up the smooth waters of the river like a giant white butterfly as the first grey touch of dawn lightened the sky . |
| 25 | He was Pakistan 's first Punjabi Prime Minister and the first industrialist to hold the office , breaking with the tradition of filling the post with a member of the powerful ( and generally Sindhi ) landowning classes . |
| 26 | When the bull died , it was buried with all due ceremony and the next Apis , Mnevis or Buchis was brought forward to take its place . |
| 27 | ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in . |
| 28 | This is a great left-hand exercise because the 2nd finger will stay put while the others move . |
| 29 | But even if Lenin was correct in his analysis of the capitalist-imperialist roots of the First World War , by the 1950s and 1960s the capitalist global system and the Third World had both changed so much that many Marxists felt the need to generate new theories to explain what was happening and to show the way forward from a political point of view . |
| 30 | Weakened by internal conflict , CND was unable to mount an effective large-scale protest when the first cruise missiles finally arrived . |