Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |
2 | Again after the middle ten lines there is another break which takes us into the last section of the poem with the words ‘ at last ’ . |
3 | North Tyneside is a ‘ programme authority ’ for the purposes of urban programming , which puts it in the second highest division of local authorities for central assistance , which is inner-city related . |
4 | The average Council Tax payer , the council tax ca n't be more than , around four percent erm which reminds me of the last miracle budget we had , ninety eighty nine I think it was , again a Labour budget which I think was three point nine per cent increase then and the lowest rate of increase for twenty years erm and the highest level of growth erm . |
5 | The continuing emphasis on family relationships may well affect the way Japan copes with the rapid ageing of the population which faces her over the next three decades . |
6 | However , this line of argument still leaves unanswered the question why strikes are presented as they are , which brings us to the second of the points Hyman raised . |
7 | Which brings us to the next item , the String Quartet No 1 by Srul Irving Glick ( born 1934 ) . |
8 | Sequencing is very often a the root of the dyslexic problem , not only in writing and reading , but also in remembering other kinds of sequence , like time sequence , which brings us to the next point . |
9 | The strange fragrance was stronger now , coming over the top of the rise in a wave of scent that struck him powerfully — as the scent of orange-blossom in the Mediterranean strikes a traveller who smells it for the first time . |
10 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
11 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
12 | If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third . |
13 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
14 | It takes us from the 19th century through to the 1930s and 1940s and the pioneering work of a number of embroiderers , in particular Constance Howard , who in 1951 was invited to make a large-scale work for the Festival of Britain . |
15 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |
16 | Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping . |