Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun pl] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew it was in the interests of the City that the Tories win the next election . |
| 2 | The half-hardy marvel of Peru ( Mirabilis jalapa ) , with bushy growth and oddly marked flowers , enters the scent stakes a little earlier as its flowers open around 4 pm , but continues until the flowers die the next day . |
| 3 | If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable , then you must submit to the second . |
| 4 | ‘ If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable … |
| 5 | The process will , of course , be greatly expedited if the Tories form the next Government and the Prime Minister can claim to be his own man with his own mandate . |
| 6 | Clasper and the conspirators timed the third offence to coincide with the visit to the UK of the President and Chief Executive Officer of United Motors , Nate Cocello , as this would provide maximum publicity to the planned strike . |
| 7 | We have got the fastest rising unemployment anywhere in Europe and the figures destroy the last vestiges of credibility for the Conservatives on the economy . ’ |
| 8 | Well this frocks never arrived and she just had to put on an ordinary er white blouse you see and a skirt and the frocks arrived the next day and she put them back . |
| 9 | She and the children inhabited the first landing , which was brightly decorated , and clean . |
| 10 | One can scarcely comprehend a hand-chiselled stollen being taken right through to the water — no drill holes to probe ahead and no explosives to blast the last few feet away . |
| 11 | It does seem however , from the evidence of the Australian National University concerning the Gogo lungfish , that a complicated scenario arose where other techniques of air-breathing occurred accidentally , and that air-sac creatures invaded freshwater habitats while the diaphragm-breathers became the first land inhabitants . |
| 12 | If we want that Foxbat , we have to have it before the Chinks blow the last one out of the sky . |
| 13 | Although it was almost a century before the Ottomans eradicated the last traces of the medieval Serbian empire by taking the Serbian fortress of Smederovo on the Danube in 1459 , the battle of Kosovo sounded the death knell for independent Serbia . |
| 14 | It was an electrifying race , made more so as the runners approached the third stage . |
| 15 | The second half proved a nightmare as the visitors hit the first three baskets to take the lead for the first time and stay there for a 7670 victory . |
| 16 | As the Dwarfs approached the first ranks of Night Goblins a massive whoop went up amongst the greenskins , and from out of their formation charged Night Goblin Fanatics whirling balls and chains . |
| 17 | As the Owls entered the last 25 minutes , they needed just one goal to square the tie — and they looked perfectly capable of getting it . |