Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the military and administrative functions of the town , which included offices for collecting taxes from native and Russian alike , there was the beginning of a perish structure established by Orthodox clergy who had accompanied or soon followed the first government forces . |
| 2 | or even offset the next ice age . |
| 3 | You may choose to use initials for something which is mentioned frequently or simply to write the first half of the word . |
| 4 | You may move up , down or horizontally to find the next letter but not diagonally . |
| 5 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 6 | It 's you that normally wins the first hand and me for the rest . |
| 7 | But their most famous victory , over the black Conservative John Taylor in Cheltenham , was clouded by suggestions of racism , and as our Political Editor Peter Hayes reports it was racism that also overshadowed the first day of the conference . |
| 8 | Then let us hope that here endeth the second lesson . ’ |
| 9 | In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly , and herein lies the first problem for the researcher . |
| 10 | DEC specialist , $100m-a-year Micro Technology Inc , has acquired five-year-old SF2 Corporation , the Sunnyvale , California-based firm that pioneered and commercially shipped the first fault tolerant disk array storage device known as RAID 5/6 . |
| 11 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 12 | The purpose of such an approach would be to demonstrate that the second language has the same potential for use as the first language , encourage learners to draw on their own experience of language by applying familiar procedures to the interpretation of second language use , and so to teach the second language system not as an end in itself but as a resource for the achievement of meaning . |
| 13 | The good news here is that because the suppliers have to sell large numbers of a low-cost product to recover development costs and so fund the next round of products — despite what Atex claim when they make their conference pitches — these companies have a distinct interest in making the products better , cheaper and faster . |
| 14 | Because they 're almost there — unlike previous white soul or funk aspirants like Kevin Rowland or A Certain Ratio who fell so far shod of their ambitions they inadvertently created something different , these groups have , through graft and expense , come close , and so clog the second division of pop-soul . |
| 15 | I think to myself that I can serve in opposition , make my case and perhaps win the next election , so I accept the result . |
| 16 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |
| 17 | He scored a grade A in his maths ‘ O ’ Level and naturally entered the sixth form where he flourished . |
| 18 | Bob and Florence and er John and Rose and Stan and Doreen and the three of them and I are , are just very happy to be here and together to represent the Hundredth Group and what remains of it in the United States . |
| 19 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 20 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 21 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 22 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 23 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 24 | They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand . |
| 25 | Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh . |
| 26 | George Woodger , an inside or centre-forward of the highest quality , played for the Palace in our earliest years and quickly became the first Palace ‘ superstar ’ — and that in an age when today 's publicity was unthinkable . |
| 27 | When the number of steps to be executed is equal to the number of deceleration delay circuits the downcounter produces a pulse , which switches off the clock and also triggers the first deceleration delay , T1' . |
| 28 | The pulse output of the first delay is fed to the phase sequence generator and also triggers the next delay circuit . |
| 29 | Palestinians on Nov. 15 disregarded curfews imposed by the Israeli authorities and openly celebrated the second anniversary of the Palestinian declaration of independence . |
| 30 | Coming to the gate , he looked in at the cottage and instantly recognized the fourth photograph in Heather 's collection . |