Example sentences of "[adj] the [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 In August 1980 the DUC produced the second issue of their bulletin STOP .
2 Approximately half the respondents described the first stage of the process : how interest in attending courses arose .
3 From the early 1890s the LCC built the first large modern housing estates in the country .
4 The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom will supply 10 towns with a Switched Multi-megabit Data Service by the end of the year , Computerwoche reports : users in Munich and Stuttgart will have immediate access to the new Hannover , Berlin , Dusseldorf , Frankfurt and Nuremburg will follow ; as such the project represents the first large-scale commercial implementation of the IEEE 802.6 standard in Europe ; but Telekom has gone further than most by letting its users use the protocol 's speech and video capabilities , and the state firm is touting the network 's 53-byte cell structure as an easy way for customers to migrate to Asynchronous Transfer Mode capability in the future .
5 In the autumn of 1929 the USSR became the first state to break the illusions created by the Kellogg-Briand pact by unleashing its Special Far Eastern Army upon the Manchurian nationalists , who rashly thought they could put an end to Soviet control of the Chinese Eastern Railway .
6 On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 .
7 On Feb. 18 the North suspended the fourth round of Premiers ' talks which had been scheduled for Feb. 25-28 , but agreement was reached the same month on joint sports teams [ see p. 38010 ; see also pp. 38341 ; 38437 ; 38529 ; 38576 ] .
8 Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray .
9 At the end of 1992 the company installed the first 1,000-number exchange in Ekaterinburg , which was assembled at the local Ural Electromechanical plant .
10 No I 'll tell you when the next course is for erm schools seventh the week commencing the seventh of February .
11 And in 1923 the company made the first published record by a reigning British monarch , King George V and Queen Mary 's ‘ Empire Day Message to the Boys and Girls of the British Empire ’ ( 34 ) .
12 Consequently , on that day in the year AD 247 the Romans celebrated the thousandth anniversary of the founding of their city .
13 In 1942 the Battalion left the 48th Division and was transferred to the 54th , billeted at Walberswick and Southwold .
14 On May 5th the Treasury announced the first big shift for years in its pattern of funding .
15 In 1882 the Legislature took the first of these courses .
16 Upon their return to England after South African unification in 1910 the kindergarten tackled the next item on what seems to have been an implicit agenda — the unification of the British empire .
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