Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while the latter was hobnobbing with John Stuart Mill and publishing treatises on English grammar , the former was modifying a system of synchronised electric clocks to make the first fax machine . |
| 2 | Ian and John are among the very few unchaperoned males attending the second Scottish Bridal Fair . |
| 3 | ( b ) Some microprogrammed computers allow the next micro-instruction to be specified by loading into the control store SAR the contents of some portion of a processor register . |
| 4 | ‘ Really , ’ exclaimed in heavily scandalized tones one of the few other passengers braving the last gusts of a salt-laden sirocco up on deck , an Englishwoman in an ample frock loud with different coloured daisies . |
| 5 | Then , cut one thin round in two horizontally and place one half on top of the three remaining thin rounds to form the fourth and last tower ( see illustration ) . |
| 6 | Slice another wide round in two horizontally and place one half on top of the two remaining wide rounds to form the third tower . |
| 7 | But they gave opportunities for the advancement of town planning , facilitating consultancy work and ( so ably fostered by Pepler ) encouraging individual local authorities to take the first steps in scheme preparation in their own areas . |
| 8 | Three British crews filled the first three places in the sidecar race . |
| 9 | Three British crews filled the first three places in the sidecar race . |
| 10 | At the end of September , 35 English dealers and 15 from the Continent joined 35 American dealers to hold the first International Antique Dealers ' Show at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue , in the heart of Manhattan . |
| 11 | In Kirghizia on April 10 and Tadjikistan on April 12 the newly elected republican Supreme Soviets elected the first secretaries of their republican Communist Parties ( CP ) , respectively Absamat Masaliyev and Kakhar Makhkamov , to the post of Chairman ( i.e. President of the republic ) . |
| 12 | The basic pruning principle , therefore , should be to remove wood as soon as it has flowered in order to dived energy into the production of good strong stems to carry the next year 's bloom . |
| 13 | ALL existing 3-D cameras infer the third dimension indirectly ( eg by parallax ) . |
| 14 | The special pressures and problems of the major urban areas form the third common theme to emerge . |
| 15 | IRISH International showjumpers dominated the first three places in the Silk Cut Speed Derby at Hickstead in Sussex yesterday . |
| 16 | And , again like the students , it has issued an official list of permitted slogans , ordering citizens to memorise 40 different chants to mark the 40th anniversary of communist rule . |
| 17 | On May 15 Soviet troops began the second stage of their withdrawal from Mongolia , to complete a 75 per cent reduction in their numbers [ for first phase of this withdrawal , which started in May 1989 , see p. 36657 ] . |
| 18 | ( The February election had delayed the Diet 's consideration of the budget , and had forced the government to adopt interim budgetary measures covering the first two months of the fiscal year . ) |
| 19 | Other well-attended conferences included the 37th advocacy training course at Great Malvern , the Solicitor 's European Group annual conference in Berlin , the Society 's national conference in Birmingham , a company law conference , and a number of Society-organised fringe meetings at all the party political conferences . |
| 20 | Nadia , Lynlea , and three other Canadian pupils formed the first group of exchangers , and three St Mary 's pupils are expected to board and study at Collingwood School later this year . |
| 21 | These new streamlined creatures became the first fish and soon underwent a further important change when they began to develop a movable jaw , paving the way for the Devonian period — the ‘ Age of Fishes ’ . |
| 22 | The voyages , two 11-night cruises to mark the 50th anniversary of the convoys to Murmansk and Archangel , will trace much of the old route . |
| 23 | It was during this period that savage Turkish reprisals against Balkan nationalist movements gave the last of the sultans an unsavoury reputation for religious persecution which has coloured the writings of some western historians in their assessment of the whole record of the Ottoman empire . |
| 24 | A 16-bit computer has two instruction formats : Two schemes are possible for allocating bit patterns to operations : ( a ) One 4-bit pattern ( say 1111 ) in the 4 most-significant bits of an instruction word indicates the second format , while all other 4-bit patterns represent the first format . |
| 25 | Two generals and 19 other officers became the first soldiers to be brought to trial in connection with the December 1989 coup attempt , when they appeared before a seven-member military court on May 8 on charges of mutiny and murder . |
| 26 | The Maronite Christian parties boycotted the third round , as they had the previous two rounds . |