Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 2 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 3 | Left : With psychological jammed knots in place , the author goes for the first ring on Renaissance ( E2/3 5c ) , Cross Hill , Adrspatch ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 4 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 5 | The meeting counts as the third round in the Ulster championship and will in fact be a two day affair for it begins on Friday night at 7.00pm . |
| 6 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 7 | Beta testing starts during the first quarter of 1993 , with commercial availability expected by year-end . |
| 8 | Proudly proclaiming that this recording contains for the first time on one CD all of Bach 's Toccatas and Fugues ( including the Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV548 ) , it is indeed a well-stocked programme . |
| 9 | In the army , a total of 1,308 officers and 5,152 nco 's received their redundancy notices under the second phase of the Options for Change plan to cut army numbers by almost 40,000 to 119,000 by 1995 . |
| 10 | The origin of a different approach lies in the mid-nineteenth century in Lumley v. Gye . |
| 11 | This is the anti-socialist , specifically anti-Marxist bent of the elitist theory as it unfolds in the last decade of the nineteenth century ’ ( Meisel , 1958 , p. 10 ) . |
| 12 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 13 | Rejected reaffirmation of Labour 's former policy of unilaterally renouncing the use or possession of British nuclear weapons , and the ‘ unconditional removal of all nuclear weapons and nuclear bases from British soil and waters within the first parliament of the next Labour government ’ . |
| 14 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Work on the production line starts in the next couple of days with the sales of the Vauxhall Cavalier and Opel Vextra containing the engine expected next spring . |
| 17 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 18 | Lisa is eighteen and now lives on the nineteenth floor of a block of London flats with her nine-month-old daughter . |
| 19 | ‘ He lives on the sixteenth floor of the RCA building . |
| 20 | Guy lives on the sixth floor in let me see , it 's on the it 's if , if you 're going along the corridor it 's just past the final year notice boards , it does have a number , I 've forgotten which one it is but it 's on the right hand side . |
| 21 | I think , assume everything starts on the first beat of the bar as well . |
| 22 | Following the introduction of civil penalties for late filing of accounts from 1 July ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 85 ) , Companies House has confirmed that the periods allowed for the filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period . |
| 23 | What a strange statement has come from Companies House confirming that the periods allowed for filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 98 ) . |
| 24 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |
| 25 | In the years when no rain occurs between the last spraying of the vine and the harvest , the first sixty-five litres of the cuvée will often be tapped off and added to the taille . |
| 26 | When the new Parliament meets for the first time on Monday , April 27 , the first task facing MPs will be to choose a Speaker . |
| 27 | The working party meets for the first time in July when it will define the terms of reference of the study . |
| 28 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 29 | The next phase , the anal phase , usually occurs during the second year of the child 's life . |
| 30 | Conversely , it is also important to realise that if diarrhoea starts again or even occurs for the first time in a patient treated by gluten restriction , the patient should be investigated for colonic disorders , since the answer may not simply or necessarily rest with dietary lapses , an unresponsiveness phase , or lymphoma . |