Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'm fed up to here with being liked and admired and called a proper bloody goldmine and the next Barbra Streisand . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We look forward to another successful season and the next 21 years . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Platt becomes England 's 32nd post-war captain and the fifth leader in 28 matches under Graham Taylor . |
| 11 | The pair made the longest unsupported polar journey and the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic land mass . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In spite of their exhaustion , their jubilation at making the longest unsupported polar trip and the first unsupported crossing of Antarctica was unmistakeable . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Police chief Calvin Ross said a person was being questioned about the killing of Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand , the eighth foreign tourist and the fourth German killed in Florida in the past year . |
| 22 | Okay and finally erm are London boroughs erm yeah blank blank , eighty six election and the next London borough elections will be in nineteen ninety four so they 've been in nineteen eighty six , nineteen ninety and nineteen , they will next be in nineteen ninety four . |
| 23 | One sat at the extreme righthand end of the car , another at the extreme lefthand end and the third in the middle by the doors , facing the platform . |
| 24 | The second child , however , finds that she is left with one large ring and the third finds to everyone 's surprise , he has two linking rings . |
| 25 | They were also used to power the first oil-engined tractor and the first practical oil-engined locomotive , both in 1896 . |
| 26 | In 1870 they helped organize the first All-Russian Industrial Exhibition and the first All-Russian Congress of Manufacturers and People Interested in Native Industry . |
| 27 | Between one inferior conjunction and the next Venus rotates almost exactly five times as viewed from the Sun and four times as viewed from the Earth and therefore Venus almost presents the same face to the Earth at each inferior conjunction . |
| 28 | Cecilia opened the small red book and the first name she saw was Bleech-Palmer . |
| 29 | Erm in nineteen thirty seven , that is er after the first New Deal and the second er Roosevelt administration , the federal government gave to the states three hundred million dollars so you can see in percentage terms the enormous er an enormous increase , enormous trans transformation . |
| 30 | — The pancreatic β cell mass in humans develops rapidly during gestation and infancy , increasing more than 130-fold between the 12th intrauterine week and the fifth postnatal month . |