Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first volume of ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ Peter King told of the rescue and repair of the Duke taking the story through to 1985 and in the second volume he tells of the return to steam culminating in the blue riband run over the Settle and Carlisle in September 1990 . |
| 2 | But by the fourteenth century , contemplation had become something very different and in the second part of his book , Hilton explained to his nun what the modern , innovative Contemplation involved . |
| 3 | While we are on the subject of indirect taxes , will the Government tell the House how they will continue to cut direct taxes and improve public services without at the same time raising VAT as they did in 1979 and in the last Budget ? |
| 4 | Meanwhile in 1766 , Edward Snape , farrier to George III and to the second troop of Life Guards , published a proposal to establish in London what might be called a ‘ teaching hospital ’ for instruction on the diseases of horses . |
| 5 | Wallace , signed for £1.2million from Southampton , last played a League game in May 1991 and until the last fortnight it seemed his future lay away from Manchester . |
| 6 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 7 | In successive seasons , he took United from the Third to the Second and into the First Division . |
| 8 | Because in the first and second and in the third year we had very good staff who took a pride in the school . |
| 9 | The new trolleybus service was numbered 654 and for the first time there was a through service crossing the main road at West Croydon . |
| 10 | On the night of the 17th and into the next day , the Germans mounted a massive bombardment ; shells are said to have fallen at the rate of 400 a minute . |
| 11 | The children running the shop today are all aged eight and from the third year at school , but how much do they know about what the shop does . |
| 12 | Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone . |
| 13 | The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty . |
| 14 | Certainly he played extremely well in that position after Peter Wall was injured for most of 1972–73 and in the first half of 1973–74 , and it was from that position that he captained the Palace side . |
| 15 | I was totally conscious and for the first time since my labour started I felt relaxed . |
| 16 | Troubled by a cold and a painful left shoulder , he managed only a 73 and for the third time in four starts missed the cut . |
| 17 | But the question had been unwelcome and for the first time some of his cockiness seemed to have drained from him . |
| 18 | Because they were already in successful careers they were able to learn fast and by the second week our Gofer teams were veteran roadies . |
| 19 | At the first fork they must go left and at the next fork right and so on until they were challenged . |
| 20 | A draft Convention was prepared by a Special Commission of the Hague Conference in February 1964 and by the 10th Session of the Conference in the following October . |
| 21 | er Red er Leicester , I got a lump last and there was no taste at all and on the second day , we not having a proper fridge just er , a a fridge you know keeping it in store |
| 22 | In short , the value of history as a school subject must be constantly and publicly argued because : ( 1 ) history may lose out in any modification to the National Curriculum ; ( 2 ) in the implementation of the existing national curriculum it may be marginalised in the scramble for resources and timetable space ; ( 3 ) a rigorous projection of the value of the subject is important to the well-being of the school in the face of competition from other schools and possible closure ; ( 4 ) students have a choice at Key Stage 4 and in the sixth form and it is essential for the integrity of the subject that single-subject history should have a good representation at both levels ; ( 5 ) above all history has much to offer to the student of the 1990s . |
| 23 | The equaliser brought more boost to Town , than United and for the first time in the game , the Oxford goal was under pressure . |
| 24 | He died 19 January 1883 aged 82 and in the 54th year of his ministry . |
| 25 | The endowment fund for such masses was enormous and in the thirteenth century some system of regulation was required . |
| 26 | The main impetus in Britain for measures to deal with age discrimination at the workplace — despite the current recession — derive from the so called demographic time bomb which will be increasingly felt by all organisations , public and private , during the 1990s and into the next century . |
| 27 | He never came to the hotel drunk and for the first time for years worked almost to a routine . |
| 28 | A series of documents both in the First and in the Second Book of Maccabees reflects — I believe quite authentically for the majority of them — the decline of Syrian power in Judaea , but does not offer any precise clue to the intentions of Antiochus IV in Hellenizing Jerusalem . |
| 29 | Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district . |
| 30 | Thus , the over-65s in 1983 were the generation of the 1930s and of the Second World War ( see Chapter 3 ) . |