Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] was the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Hellenistic temple was the third largest structure of its time . |
| 2 | Josiah 's crowning achievement in this ceramic body was the first replica of the Barberini or Portland Vase — the first satisfactory copy being made in 1789 . |
| 3 | Once unemployed , this small sum was the first economy all the women made . |
| 4 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 5 | The perspicacious reader will by now have decided that , if we accept the 1865 suppressed edition as the first , this American printing was the second issue of the first edition , since it was printed from the original setting of type . |
| 6 | The youngest Best Actress was the first , Janet Gaynor , at twenty-two ; the oldest was the last , Jessica Tandy , at eighty ( for Driving Miss Daisy ) . |
| 7 | This year Norfolk members are celebrating their Silver Jubilee and the highlight of this special year was the 25th Annual Rally , held 23rd March at Thorpe St. Andrew Lower School and attended by about 240 people . |
| 8 | Another rather sad deaf aristocrat was the 2nd Duke of Sutherland ( 1786–1861 ) who was deaf all his life . |
| 9 | The Joint Disciplinary Scheme was the first of our committees to recognise the need to take jurisdiction over firms as well as individual members . |
| 10 | The rise of the Nevilles and the Percies in the late fourteenth century was the first occasion when families of genuine northern origin came into the front rank of the nobility — one may exclude the duchy of Lancaster from any such comment , because it was closely connected with the royal family and also held substantial lands in the Midlands and the South . |
| 11 | The late Victorian period was the first in which there were considerable numbers of agnostics , atheists and opponents of organized religion who led lives of exemplary respectability ; it could not be urged of Huxley , Clifford or Tyndall that they were irreligious because they were libertines , like the earlier ungodly . |
| 12 | But the Communists ' most dramatic political intervention was the Second Front Campaign . |
| 13 | The 36th annual event was the last before the Milk Marketing Board disappears in its present form , although an announcement is expected before the end of this month on what involvement , if any , their successors , Milk Marque , will retain in Britain 's national tour . |
| 14 | The impending general election was the first since the launch of the opposition Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — formerly the Communist Party ) [ see p. 37785-86 ] , the consequent foundation of the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ) [ see p. 38689 ] , and the rise of a number of regional autonomy parties [ see p. 38021 ] which had scored important successes in local elections . |
| 15 | The control for each perinatal death was the next live birth born to Leicestershire woman in the intended place of delivery of the baby who died perinatally . |
| 16 | The only low point was the last album , with a photo of his son in hospital . |
| 17 | One such period was the seventeenth century in Western Europe , an age characterized by the early development of capitalism and of nation states , and by religious wars ; another is the twentieth century , during which wars of long duration and great destructiveness have been fought on a global scale . |
| 18 | Schorne 's lavish new shrine was the first part of St George 's chapel , Windsor , to be built , in the prime south-east corner . |
| 19 | That particular guy was the first person out , then I was just about the second out . |
| 20 | When the concept of a wholly implantable automatic defibrillator was the first suggested by Mirowski in the 1970s it met with a sceptical and even hostile response from some sections of the cardiological community . |
| 21 | The 1931 general election was the last election until that of February 1974 at which the electoral performance of the Liberals was of significance to the two major parties . |
| 22 | Whoever was about to emerge from beneath the dripping straw roof of this tiny hut on this minute hamlet on the eastern edge of this unknown volcanic islet was the first person in the world to rise on this February Saturday morning : Homo Pacificus , the symbol of all I had travelled half a world to see . |
| 23 | The whole Manc/baggy palaver was the first big wave of Britpop cool that 's never owned an NUJ card . |
| 24 | The original White Paper was the first comprehensive policy statement on the environment by any British Government . |
| 25 | Roddick did not offer any resistance , because at the time she was a frustrated actress and she felt teaching English and history to a class of forty kids at a local secondary school was the next best thing to acting . |