Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the parents of the first baby contacted health service bosses the parents of the second were told . |
| 2 | Durie plays the winner of the second semi-final , between Brighton 's Julie Salmon and Manchester 's Amanda Grunfeld , in tomorrow 's final . |
| 3 | ‘ Not so much because of the liver but because it spoils the effect of the first drink of the evening . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Suddenly I hear a noise on the other side of the brick wall which separates the garden of the next house from ours . |
| 5 | It must always have been the case that some problems are inherently insoluble , but perhaps it is the stress on all social services that turns the CAB into the last port of call when all others have failed . |
| 6 | Ancient History 2 covers the history of the fourth to second centuries BC , with particular emphasis on Macedonian and Roman imperialism . |
| 7 | Of course she really owes the whole of the second £30 to the lender ; but from the point of view of her budgeting , she is paying £33 in instalments for under £16 in her hand . |
| 8 | And a new character joins the cast at the last minute — Eric Batson , a forceful campaigner and organiser who put new life into the Shaw Society . |
| 9 | There are promotions for David Hunt to the employment department , for Gillian Shephard to agriculture and for John Redwood , the Thatcherite and cerebral local-government minister who joins the cabinet for the first time as Welsh secretary . |
| 10 | The neck joins the body at the sixteenth fret and top fret access is on a par with any Strat-bodied instrument . |
| 11 | The LSE 's neck joins the body at the fourteenth fret , with the cutaway giving access to all twenty frets . |
| 12 | It has a width of 1th″ ( 4.23cm ) at the nut and joins the body at the 14th fret . |
| 13 | The neck joins the body around the 21st fret and has the same fixing as the old EG. It 's a mortice and tenon joint with the hidden part running under the scratchplate . |
| 14 | A pseudo-variable which contains the address of the first byte that BBCBASIC(Z80) will not use . |
| 15 | The program starts by setting a register POINTER equal to TABLE , so the register contains the location of the first value in the table . |
| 16 | This field either contains the PSN of the last entry in this bundle assigned on that basis ( restricting the range of the search ) or contains a negative value indicating that there are no more entries of the kind in this bundle . |
| 17 | The third column contains the product of the first two , providing a merit number for each criterion and the sum of these is the overall merit number for the project . |
| 18 | The third column contains the product of the first two , providing a merit number for each criterion and the sum of these is the overall merit number for the project . |
| 19 | Actually I 'll be operating between the village hall and the Cross Keys and Mr Roger has the pub for the last sixteen years or so . |
| 20 | The rules are not always as simple s that , e.g. Classical Arabic has the stress on the first long syllable of the word , or on the first syllable if there are no long syllables in the word . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most familiar type of compound is the one which combines two nouns , and normally has the stress on the first element , as in : |
| 22 | What has the evidence of the last 25 years to tell us ? |
| 23 | Figure 2B illustrates the trend over the last five years of Scotland 's top five markets . |
| 24 | It may pay to be early at Catford where Dromina Duke looks the part in the second race . |
| 25 | It paves the way for the first national lottery in the UK since 1826 . |
| 26 | THE railway station more than any other building epitomizes the spirit of the nineteenth century , in its mating of technology and architecture , industry and art , in its conscious appeal to the splendours of the past and its confident striving towards the vistas of the future . |
| 27 | BBC BASIC does this for you automatically and provides a pointer PTR# ( a pseudo-variable ) which holds the position of the NEXT character ( byte ) to be written/read . |
| 28 | This holds the address of the second synonym , and so on . |
| 29 | The home record storage area holds the address of the first synonym . |
| 30 | As Sir Alan Walters once remarked , he is a cushion that ‘ bears the imprint of the last person who sat on him ’ . |