Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |
| 2 | In his two-volume Mexico of the Twentieth Century ( 1907 ) Martin moved on to examine British investment and influence in that country . |
| 3 | Air travel grew rapidly : the first Pan Am passenger flight was on 18 January 1928 , although the first commercial passenger flights had been in German Zeppelins before the First World War , and French and British airlines had begun by the early 1920s . |
| 4 | Modigliani left Nice for nearby Cagnes in the first half of April . |
| 5 | Robson is now even more determined to assist United in the overriding ambition of bringing the League title to Old Trafford for the first time in 25 years . |
| 6 | Marshall took 10 for 92 in that match but arrived at Old Trafford for the third Test reportedly with a rib injury . |
| 7 | Paul Merson was close to stunning Old Trafford in the 80th minute with a stupendous 35-yard volley which took goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel unawares , but smacked hard against his crossbar . |
| 8 | ‘ Choose to think that would be a reason for sending old Jack into the next world if you like , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Annexed to British India in the 19th century , Burma was made a separate dependency in 1937 and became independent , outside the Commonwealth , as the Union of Burma in 1948 . |
| 10 | He had been moved alongside the combative Hughes in the second half , to try and expose a lack of pace at the heart of Southampton 's aggressive and rough defence . |
| 11 | When Bukharin , in his speech to the Sixth Congress , emphasised that the Latin American Communist parties ‘ had an important role to play in the development of national and agrarian revolutions ’ , Brazilian delegate Fernando Lacerna somewhat tartly pointed out that a Communist movement had existed in Latin America since 1920 but it was only in 1928 that ’ the Communist International [ had ] shown its interest in Latin America for the first time ’ ( La Correspondance Internationale ( organ of the Communist International ) , 1928 , in Alba : 1964 , p. 188 ) . |
| 12 | Looking at the major political movements in Latin America in the twentieth century , it is striking how all of the most successful have championed the ideals of integration , national unity and incorporation . |
| 13 | You that Luke titchy Luke in the fourth year ? |
| 14 | For example , how to land allied armies and vast quantities of supplies on the beaches of enemy-occupied Normandy during the Second World War ? |
| 15 | The Pattyndennes were of the newly emerging class of yeomanry , who with the gradual acquisition of land in the fertile valleys of the Weald were one step ahead of the rest of agricultural England during the mid-fifteenth century . |
| 16 | The army is mindful of its prestige , and the strength of public feeling was shown by the huge turn-out ( over 300,000 people ) for an anti-military rally in central Moscow on the first Sunday after the killings in Vilnius . |
| 17 | The financial year shall run from the 1st January to the 31st December . |
| 18 | The policy does not cover claims arising whilst the vessel remains afloat unmanned in the UK from 1st October to the 31st March inclusive , unless the vessel is placed in a purpose built marina , protected harbour , non-tidal waters or in a sheltered mooring which has been notified to and agreed by the Corporation . |
| 19 | Jochen and Elke warn Fabian not to go out on the streets on 7 October for the 40th anniversary of the formation of East Germany , and for God 's sake not to demonstrate . |
| 20 | BHC is having detailed discussions with four of these and hopes to sell 90–100 AP1-88s over the next decade . |
| 21 | According to the posters outside , the winter season would open the following Wednesday with the first performance of a new work , Leonore , by Ludwig van Beethoven . |
| 22 | The British Army aid convoy has arrived safely in Central Bosnia with the first supplies in the region for a month . |
| 23 | They bear some resemblance to figurines of the Italic culture of central Italy of the mid-first millennium BC . |
| 24 | The great French historian , Fernand Braudel , in his massive Civilisation and Capitalism traces , among much else , the gradual shift northwards and westwards of European banking from its beginnings in central Italy in the thirteenth century . |
| 25 | It is nevertheless of interest that supplies were being drawn into the Chinese market as early as the Han empire , that it featured among the tribute rendered by the Turkish tribes of central Asia during the tenth century A.D. , that the Portuguese introduced European amber through Macao and that during the Qing dynasty supplies were assured from the mines of north Burma , situated in the same region as the sources of jadeite . |
| 26 | Although a survey of Russia 's dealings with central Asia in the first half of the nineteenth century concludes that " Bukhara , Khiva , and Kokand were not primary objects of interest " , the work as a whole provides massive evidence for the view that only the problem of traversing Kazakhstan prevented the khanates from coming to the top of the imperial agenda . |
| 27 | It is of interest to note that both venues were designated as public meeting places following outbreaks of public disorder and public clashes with the police when people were seeking to demonstrate and protest publicly in central London during the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Now he 's found , but if there 's a hope of getting to the truth about Sabine Jourdain in the next day or two I could linger . ’ |
| 29 | 7 Northumbria in the eighth century |
| 30 | Adults collected from Porlock Weir , laid egg capsules from 28 March-29 April 1972 and from 21 March until the first week of May 1974 . |