Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean . |
| 2 | Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government . |
| 3 | Then incubate the embryos at room temperature for 15–30 min in the second layer ( an FITC- or TMRTC-conjugated antibody or IgG directed against the first antibody ) diluted appropriately in M2 . |
| 4 | So blackly venomous was his expression that Perdita fled towards the next pitch , scattering the polo balls which lay like a hatch of goose eggs near the goal posts . |
| 5 | The three-year period , for example , between the death of Eorpwald and the accession of Sigeberht , could signify that Sigeberht succeeded in the third year after Eorpwald 's assassination . |
| 6 | Resentful souls on Earth , tethered there by obligation or obstinacy , muttered that Capella knew from the first what would be found on Mars and why . |
| 7 | There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’ |
| 8 | By way of final illustration , we can apply Nozick 's refutation to Descartes ' sceptical argument about dreaming , and hence perhaps do better than Descartes did on the last page of the Meditations . |
| 9 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 10 | The efficiency gains that RBS wrought in the first few months of Project Columbus reflect how much fat it was carrying . |
| 11 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
| 12 | Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack . |
| 13 | Coburn 's script stated that Susan came from the forty-ninth century : too precise a reference for a series modelling itself on mystery . |
| 14 | You do n't need a theological background to see there is a difference between the way that Paul writes in the first part of chapter 15 and in the second . |
| 15 | This is natural : the exceptionally influential eminence that Eliot achieved through the second half of his life , together with his almost explicit ( though characteristically demure ) donning of the Virgilian mantle himself , have made it inevitable . |
| 16 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 17 | I would not , therefore , expect theism to have to rest its case on the sort of argument for God 's existence that Anselm advanced in the eleventh century and which has come to be known as the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ . |
| 18 | She leapt down , carefully shook the sand off it and handed it back to Simon as he and Ben ran across the last few yards towards her . |
| 19 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 20 | There were heats , and Jefferson ran in the first . |
| 21 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 22 | Des O'Grady had the honour when he and Kyle came to the 6th . |
| 23 | Corinth sent help to Potidaia , the Athenians sent a besieging force , and so Corinth and Athens clashed for the second time . |
| 24 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 25 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 26 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 27 | And Kingman continues in the next paragraph : |
| 28 | The citizens of Pisa by then had recently taken over its government from the archbishop — they had formed the commune of consuls in the early 1080s which was to be a model for innumerable cities in Tuscany and Lombardy and Umbria to follow in the next two generations , the characteristic Italian commune . |
| 29 | Both powers know that the unappealing alternative is a return to the 1970s and 1980s , when America and Russia competed in the third world through warring clients . |
| 30 | The visitors regained some respectability with Hanley and Dixon tries in the last 10 minutes . |