Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [is] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story . |
| 2 | Is he so politically inept that he virtually signals to the people of Scotland that the only thing which will stop this arrant nonsense is the next general election , when he and his cronies will be swept out of power and the interests of patients will be put before political dogma ? |
| 3 | Terry Storry 's British White Water is the first canoeing guide to comprehensively cover the classic white water rivers of England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 4 | Intv. he sez morale is very low and this industrial action is the last thing the men wanted . |
| 5 | The CFTC says that this latest offer is the last . |
| 6 | Since it is based on Lévi-Strauss 's binary conception in which women figure as absent ( 0 ) and men as present ( 1 ) , the unitary male discursive subject is the first target of the feminist deconstructive enterprise . |
| 7 | The self-imposed limitations of this ‘ visual anthology of the Domestic room in Scotland culled principally from the collection of the National Monuments Record of Scotland ’ apart , this intriguing little book is the first of its kind . |
| 8 | The annual closed week is the first week in October each year , and allows the Library to carry out inventory control of its collections . |
| 9 | So far , The Famous Grouse Finest Scotch Whisky is the first and , at least until the end of June , the only sponsor of the 1991 Rugby World Cup to have announced its commitment to the 1993 World Sevens tournament . |
| 10 | In the British system , leadership of a major political party is the first requirement for being a Prime Minister . |
| 11 | We can only presume the allocation for the current financial year is the first element of a rapidly expanding budget over the full five years of the scheme . |
| 12 | An alert artistic temperament is the first requirement for the creation of these so impressive two dimensional figures . |
| 13 | The Italian national debt is the third largest in the world , but until recently the short maturity and floating rate nature of its debt has prevented the provision of a suitable futures contract . |
| 14 | To return to Milan , an important new publication is the first volume of the ‘ Corpus bizantino slavo ’ , entitled I Serbi nel Medioevo ( L125,000 ) , edited by Sima Cirkovic for Jaca Book The major monograph Gentile da Fabriano . |
| 15 | ( One notable relic is the second volume ( Men ) of a two-volume group entitled Things and Men : it is full of snippets of conversation and descriptions spread over the period 1897 to 1910 , frequently used in his books and papers in order to restrain his fancy and keep his feet firmly on the ground . ) |
| 16 | Though oil companies have previously used converted tankers for similar purposes , the £70 million Alba vessel is the first of its type to be purpose-built for holding on station by a novel technology developed by the Glasgow-based marine specialists YARD . |
| 17 | With the tiny tributaries of the Danube gaining strength and coalescing in the German hills above Ulm , this old city with the world 's tallest Gothic spire is the first of many historic places along the river . |