Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 2 | Holm , 24 , who reached the last 16 at Wimbledon last year before losing to Stefan Edberg in four sets , also trailed 5–4 in the second set but found his range in time to break New Zealander Steven in the 11th game to level the match . |
| 3 | Xinhua led the French ace 17–13 in the third game but was narrowly beaten 21–19 in a thrilling contest . |
| 4 | The pernicious notion that we can believe whatever we feel like believing may not be unique to the twentieth century but it has certainly found great popularity in it . |
| 5 | Lara and Arthurton raised West Indian hopes with a left-handed partnership of 52 for the fourth wicket but both were undone by Donald 's speed in the final session and the match seemed all but signed , sealed and delivered to South Africa entering the rest day . |
| 6 | They had slightly the better of the first half but a poor pass to Sleightholme lost one chance and then Sleightholme could not touch down a useful kick by Maynard , Stabler getting there first . |
| 7 | Wales actually led 6–3 into the second half but tries to Damien Smith and Garrick Morgan and a conversion and three penalties by full-back Marty Roebuck put the Aussies 24–6 ahead . |
| 8 | One hypothesis , which was first advanced by Deschner in 1975 and has recently been reproposed by Rozen , is that the same type of proliferative anomalies are also present in the second subgroup but in a localised rather than diffuse form . |
| 9 | His one-man show yesterday failed to prevent the Hammers moving to fourth in the First Division but it saved Pompey from embarrassment . |
| 10 | ( 1984 , experiment 1b ) gave rats tone-shock pairings in one context , intermixed with sessions of exposure to a second context ; the subjects were thus fully familiar with the second context but had no experience of conditioning procedures in it . |
| 11 | Gazza headed home Signori 's free kick to tie the scores at 1-1 in the first half but took a knock on the ankle just before halftime and was less influential in the second half . |
| 12 | During the next ten days negotiations and discussions went on , in some of which I was the messenger for Sir Hubert , particularly in the efforts to get U Saw and U Ba Maw into the Council , successful in the first case but not in the second . |
| 13 | Bingham has had a number of options available over the last year but always contended that Rogan , irrespective of his omission , was still very much part of the set-up . |
| 14 | St Andrews-born Andy Thomson and his England international colleague , Gary Smith , produced the quickest win of the day , needing just 14 ends to secure a straight sets win over Welsh pair Colin Edwards and Ieuan Terry , who led 3-2 in the first set but never scored again as their opponents recovered to win 7-3 , 7-0 , 7-0 . |
| 15 | The woollen tablet weaves of England , which are relatively crude in the sixth century but which were improving in quality in the seventh , may be an insular product . |
| 16 | England wicketkeeper Alec Stewart hit 75 and helped Thorpe put on 136 for the third wicket but Surrey could only manage 233 for six in 83 overs . |
| 17 | With a total deal value of £960 million the fourth quarter was the strongest , showing an increase of £340 million over the third quarter but a rise of just £20 million over the corresponding period in the previous year . |
| 18 | France dominated most of the first half but the home side , one of South Africa 's weaker provinces , came back after trailing 15–3 at half-time to threaten an upset . |
| 19 | It was significant in the nineteenth century but declined rapidly in the twentieth , as class became more important . |