Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 2 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 3 | By that time , the feeder pipe of magma will have become fairly well insulated from the sea , so for the first time the cherry red glow of liquid lava will be seen , and small lava flows will emerge , cementing the island together . |
| 4 | We 're in the happy position of not needing any more money , so for the first time the bosses are n't in it for the profit . |
| 5 | In conclusion , this book has brought together for the first time the work of all the main researchers and provides a motivating set of reviews for any interested scientist . |
| 6 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 7 | Perhaps in the next decade the projective zone will be recognised to be a neural processing tool as powerful as the neuron 's receptive field and trigger feature . |
| 8 | Thus for the last decade the report envisages that 25 per cent of new building should be for replacement ; at such a rate the demand for greenfield sites might fall . |
| 9 | Another splendidly flighted pass found McClair in the danger zone , but not for the first time the Scot 's control was wayward . |
| 10 | She smiled warmly , and not for the first time the girl thought how incredibly lovely her mistress was . |
| 11 | Certainly , already by the thirteenth century the building of a separate cottage for a widow was as often stipulated in wills as the provision of houseroom . |
| 12 | If you do , make a third column and ask the LH to say the first and second words in the " different " column , then the first and third , etc. , as you tick off in the third column the ones that are now different from the new no. 1 . |
| 13 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 14 | Early in the nineteenth century the Devon was shipped to Tasmania and was exported to mainland Australia at intervals during the century until health restrictions put an end to imports . |
| 15 | Early in the fourth century the Carthaginian clergy disapproved of a local lady addicted to the habit of venerating a martyr 's bone ; but a hundred years later we hear of only isolated protests . |
| 16 | Early in the fourth century the struggles that had occurred intermittently between the Roman state and the Christian Church ended with the latter proving the stronger , partly as a result of the military upheavals that had threatened the former in the middle of the previous century . |
| 17 | Early in the next month the regent began the process of reconciliation , granting the magnates their letters patent and agreeing in a parliament ( which met after the Scottish victory at Stirling Bridge ) to renew and confirm the charters , which was done in october following . |
| 18 | After the Portuguese mission left Abyssinia , Lebna Dengel found himself increasingly faced by the threat from the Muslim states of Ifat and of Adal , which included Harar , with which ever since the fourteenth century the Emperors of Abyssinia had been intermittently at war ; these states were forever encroaching on the eastern borders of the empire in a war of raid and counter-raid . |
| 19 | In the higher sea level of the first interglacial , any mud left would be at too great depths to be disturbed by waves and hence for the first time the seas would be clear enough for reef-building corals to flourish . |
| 20 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 21 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 22 | Similarly in the next lines the sun is fading but has not yet disappeared . |
| 23 | Later in the nineteenth century the Lodge became the rectory for St Mary 's Church of Easton Neston , which it remained until the 1880s . |
| 24 | Later in the nineteenth century the British Empire and South America became potent fields of railway investment activity . |
| 25 | Right up to the nineteenth century the winegrowers of Anjou and Touraine would refer to their best wines as " vins pour la mer " , the wines which were going to be taken down to the sea via Nantes . |
| 26 | Up to the seventeenth century the wines produced in Champagne were not the sparkling , brilliant white wines we know today : they were still wines , or vins tranquils . |
| 27 | Up to the last minute the enormous problems of ammunition supply to the guns had not been overcome . |
| 28 | ‘ Do you know , ’ said Sir George , ‘ that up to the eighteenth century the major industry in this part of the world was rabbit-warrening ? |
| 29 | Midway through the second half the tie erupted into warfare after Rush and Froggies forward Cecilliot got in a tangle . |
| 30 | But now for the first time the diocese was being consulted — informally , quietly , but systematically . |