Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Republic of Indonesia comprises mainly some 13,700 islands known until 1949 as the Netherlands East Indies ; since 1976 it has also included East Timor ( when the latter was effectively annexed as the 27th Indonesian province after the withdrawal in 1975 of Portuguese troops , although this act has never been officially recognized by the UN ) . |
| 2 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 3 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 4 | Which is hooey ; for when the thumping result is announced , the House burst into a blast of clapping , happy as a choral society that has just flown through the last tricky chorus . |
| 5 | Already tipped as the next major band to emerge from the North West , they play Cambridge Junction on November 26 , then Leeds Warehouse 27 , Newcastle Riverside 28 , Dundee Bar Chevrolet 29 , Glasgow King Tut 's Wah Wah Hut 30 , Norwich Waterfront December 5 , Portsmouth Polytechnic 7 , Sheffield Leadmill 8 , Liverpool Polytechnic 9 and London Ladbroke Grove Subterania 10 . |
| 6 | Already tipped as the next major band to emerge from the North West , they play Cambridge Junction on November 26 , then Leeds Warehouse 27 , Newcastle Riverside 28 , Dundee Bar Chevrolet 29 , Glasgow King Tut 's Wah Wah Hut 30 , Norwich Waterfront December 5 , Portsmouth Polytechnic 7 , Sheffield Leadmill 8 , Liverpool Polytechnic 9 and London Ladbroke Grove Subterania 10 . |
| 7 | Grade III buildings were those which , whilst not qualifying for the first statutory list when compiled in 1949–69 , were considered nevertheless to be of some importance for planning purposes . |
| 8 | It is best made at the last possible moment , although it can be kept warm for a short time in a bowl set over a pan of hot water . |
| 9 | Moodie , despite a clutch problem on his Honda , closed within four seconds at Ramsey on the final lap , but the 37 year-old Reid put the power down and pulled away to win for the second successive year . |
| 10 | There is no question that the electricity was used during the financial year and yet the cost of the electricity is not shown until the next financial year . |
| 11 | Lack of garden space precluded any reasonably-sized vat of a permanent nature using brick or block construction — I dare not infringe on the last remaining vestiges of grass . |
| 12 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 13 | This certainly did not apply to the next great dog of influence on the British show scene : Ch. |
| 14 | I am glad to say that immense capital investment is going into that , which did not happen under the last Labour Government . |
| 15 | Was it already streaked with the first faint grey fingers of dawn ? |
| 16 | Joe is , of course , best remembered as the first professional to overcome what had grown into a hoodoo . |
| 17 | His request was not complied with , and the Hearing was not convened on the first lawful day after the children 's removal . |
| 18 | Now , looking out over the heartland to the eastern sky already flushed with the first faint gold of dawn , he said aloud : ‘ I let my father die deliberately . |
| 19 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 20 | Changes in intensity thus relate to the first spatial derivative of the refractive index . |
| 21 | SOUTH AFRICA were easily beaten in the first one-day international against West Indies at Sabina Park in Kingston , Jamaica , yesterday . |
| 22 | Infusion of the liquid bolus at a slow rate ensured that the isotope did not disperse beyond the first ileal segment ; the present results confirmed the effect of a cholinergic agonist and antagonist on transit in the ICJ and colon , suggesting that the model is valid . |
| 23 | These surveys , although not published before the first major statement on the curriculum , must have influenced HMI thinking . |
| 24 | Voters lined up before dawn in Chad yesterday to participate in the first national election in 20 years in this war-torn former French colony . |
| 25 | Next morning , through the sheets of rain , another glimpse of Scottish eighteenth-century life : the men of the Macleods left the castle early bound for the next large sea-loch south of Dunvegan , Loch Bracadale , to say goodbye to emigrants bound for America . |
| 26 | These in turn are covered by several layers of stony , sandy soil — probably washed into the valley from surrounding fields — possibly resulting from the first agricultural settlement of the area . |
| 27 | Distal to them there are several longer more spine-like papillae usually associated with the second oral tentacle pore ; these papillae can be regarded as tentacle scales . |
| 28 | But the furore is certain to bump up Rogan 's sales among Smiths fan who — even after all these years — are still pining for the last great rock band . |
| 29 | Both presented at the Second Annual General Meeting , October 1908 . |
| 30 | It clearly ranks as the first written literature of any consequence . |