Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are small ripples , wind-blown , on the lake , where the water catches the first flashes of brilliance from the early sun . |
| 2 | This is illustrated by the RR format of instruction on the IBM 370 range , shown in Figure 3.8 ( a ) , where the result replaces the first operand . |
| 3 | Between the coupon payment date and the next ex dividend date ( X ) , the bond is traded cum dividend , so that the buyer gets the next coupon payment . |
| 4 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 5 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 6 | It has heard and seen evidence from witnesses including the minister of agriculture , fisheries and food , the chairman of the NRA , the Chemical Industries Association and the Institute of Wastes Management , and has recommended that the government take the fourth option of its consultation paper ( Chem . |
| 7 | Rothstein deemed that the Act violated the First Amendment 's guarantee of freedom of expression , and stated that " in order for the flag to endure as a symbol of freedom in this nation , we must protect with equal vigour the right to destroy it and the right to wave it " . |
| 8 | Nobody is claiming that the Brooklands offers the last word in performance , fuel economy , space efficiency , silence or ergonomic excellence . |
| 9 | He knew it was in the interests of the City that the Tories win the next election . |
| 10 | Some organisations pay the whole cost ( especially where long distances are involved ) ; others expect the employee to pay and some state that the employee pays the first £ x and the company pays the rest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable , then you must submit to the second . |
| 13 | ‘ If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable … |
| 14 | Accordingly , their Lordships did not agree with counsel that if the jury convicted the first appellant upon the basis that he was guilty as actor , they necessarily should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 15 | If the focus process suggests one candidate in an earlier ‘ batch ’ than another , we can say that it is imposing a strong preference between those candidates ; so strong that the second one will only be considered at all if the reasoner decides the first is completely implausible . |
| 16 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 17 | If the horse jumps the first fence stickily , a smack on landing will sharpen him up . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Under the ASB approach , if the seller bears the first £5 of losses on £100 of securitised assets , a net asset of £5 is shown . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A clerk reads the short title of the Bill and the Minister names the second reading date . |
| 22 | His research work has been published extensively and he recently led a team of representatives from Britain , Germany , Switzerland and the Netherlands to create the first European master 's degree in biotechnology . |
| 23 | Sooner or later , however , these investment opportunities are fully exploited and the firm enters the second and final stage in its life-cycle , namely one of constant or normal growth . |
| 24 | Another kind of polygyny is often found in species in which the males defend territories that are briefly visited by females for mating , after which the female leaves and the male awaits the next mate . |
| 25 | Barry Cooper receiving from a log by Mark Butler went round the defender and the keeper to score the second goal after the twelfth minute . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Japan , Taiwan and the USA filled the first three places with other major investments coming from Hong Kong , Singapore and Australia . |
| 28 | In April 1972 the USSR and the USA signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT 1 ) which put a " freeze " on a specified range of nuclear weapons . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The provision of a Frontier Station at Kensington Olympia , and the decision to site the second London terminal at King 's Cross are also of benefit . |