Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is shown in percentile bands with the fiftieth percentile line shown in the middle ( i.e. fifty out of one hundred children at that age will be of that weight or height ) . |
| 2 | The objective fossil record starts with the first Ediacaran assemblages ( 560–600 million years ( Myr ) ago ) , but some evidence suggests that metazoans were already in existence as early as 800–1000Myr ago . |
| 3 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 4 | The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft . |
| 5 | The enthalpy corresponds to the first electron affinity of chlorine ( see section 3.1 ) . |
| 6 | His loyal and seemingly very level-headed wife Nesta says of the second sex scandal he has been involved in during their marriage : |
| 7 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 8 | The club now meets on the first Tuesday evening in the month from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm . |
| 9 | We 've news from a knitting club in Canada — the New Toronto Knitting Club , which meets on the second Friday evening of each month at the Sewing and Knitting Circle , . |
| 10 | No time to waste : a 1920s typist takes dictation as the train speeds to the next business meeting . |
| 11 | As answers to the last question jibber-jabbered in her head , Ashley straightened . |
| 12 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 13 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 14 | Farr , who invariably sails in the 17th man jump-seat position , has told John Clinton , the New Zealand sail designer , to re-assess the yacht 's sail inventory . |
| 15 | It ends on the first closing date or , if later , the date when the offer becomes or is declared unconditional as to acceptances or lapses . |
| 16 | Taking enforcement action requires in the first place techniques to bring deviance to light . |
| 17 | The third seed wasted two match points in the second set tie break before capitulating 4–6 7–6 6–3 to the big-serving Australian . |
| 18 | Only the defeat of Germany in 1945 made it possible for a satisfactory study of German war aims in the first world war to be undertaken . |
| 19 | With the first two Tests of the four-match series also ending in draws , the outcome of the series rests on the last Test match starting at Sialkot on Saturday . |
| 20 | Author of All the Sweet Promises turns to the first World War . |
| 21 | Jaime Collins is nine and belongs to the 4th Harold Hill Pack in Essex . |
| 22 | On approaching , from some distance off , the first greeting is given by the elegant shape of a belfry emerging from the surrounding greenery ; it belongs to the 17th century church of Santa Maria graced by the renowned painting of the Virgin by Pier Francesco Fiorentino . |
| 23 | The register POINTER is incremented and therefore points to the next table value . |
| 24 | For this , we assume that nothing changes after the first T periods . |
| 25 | This is often set at 21 days after the posting of the offer document , which coincides with the first closing date of the offer . |
| 26 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 27 | The starting pulse also triggers the first delay circuit , which delays the pulse for a time , during which the motor moves to the first phase switching position . |
| 28 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 29 | Furthermore , two-earner couples enjoy greater allowances ( 2.6SA ) than single-earner couples ( 1.6SA ) , a provision that dates from the Second World War when there was a policy to encourage married women to work . |
| 30 | What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ? |