Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] that a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the schematic dating we apply to this period it seems to be around the last century of the second millennium that an upward turn becomes traceable , notably in pottery and specifically the pottery of Athens . |
| 2 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
| 3 | It was said that on the first occasion that a female student ‘ scrubbed ’ with him he was reaching the end of a long case and held up the piece of cat-gut slung under the ureter ( to identify it and keep it safe during the dissection ) , saying ‘ Cut ! ’ |
| 4 | Eliot is able to recall Shakespeare closely enough to suggest at first sight that an ironic contrast is aimed at , but also to present the possibility that the allusion functions as the poetic equivalent of a legal fiction . |
| 5 | One might think at first blush that a passing reference to a person that all your readers will have heard of would serve to authenticate your story . |
| 6 | This purchase of a ‘ shell ’ company was the first time that the manoeuvre had been executed and the first time that a bookmaking company had been floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 7 | But this is also the first time that a young doctor takes on daily clinical responsibility for patients ' care , and in reality the service element provided by preregistration house officers underpins the medical care provided in many of our hospitals . |
| 8 | This was the first time that a powerful Hong Kong organization had openly backed the Chinese side in the dispute . |
| 9 | This is the first time that a Japanese firm has entrusted the manufacture of high technology consumer electronics equipment to a British firm . |
| 10 | Emperor Akihito and his wife undertook an 11-day tour of Thailand , Malaysia and Indonesia from Sept. 26 , the first time that a Japanese emperor had visited Japan 's immediate neighbours in modern times . |
| 11 | The recommendation will be put by the ITF 's Rules of Tennis Committee to the Committee of Management in Paris in June and if accepted , it will travel to the Dominican Republic in September for presentation to the ITF Annual General Meeting , where , if it receives a ⅔ majority from delegates in attendance , it will become the first time that a new rule has been introduced since 1989 , when the tie break was standardised . |
| 12 | This was the first time that a criminal prosecution had been taken out against the British nuclear industry . |
| 13 | It was the first time that a foreign tourist had been killed since the start of the intifada in 1987 . |
| 14 | Sistelcom general manager Jesus Prieto said that this will be the first time that a radio-paging service has used satellite for the transmission of messages . |
| 15 | This was the first time that a Conservative MP had publicly urged the government to abolish the zero rate of BAT since the before the last General Election when , in a letter to the Publishers Association , the Conservative Party said that it would not impose VAT on books or periodicals . |
| 16 | It 's the first time that a public exhibition has been staged in a prison . |
| 17 | The anniversary report is the first time that a British Government have subjected their own implementation of its policies to such public scrutiny . |
| 18 | At the July 1989 gathering of Heads of State on the island of Tarawa , in Kiribati , the South Pacific Forum placed the use of drift-nets in the South Pacific as its most important agenda item — the first time that an environmental issue had topped the agenda at a political gathering in the South Pacific . |
| 19 | This was believed to be the first time that an international bank indicted on US money-laundering charges had agreed to co-operate in an investigation against specific individuals . |
| 20 | It marked the first time that an Offshore Division production platform has been used to process oil or natural gas from a third party well . |
| 21 | It was only in the late nineteenth century that a sustained campaign for pensions for manual workers began . |
| 22 | However , David Capitanchik , an international terrorism expert , said last night that a small group of environmental activists , rather than nationalist extremists , could be responsible because of the range of institutions targeted . |
| 23 | RESIDENTS claimed last night that a multi-million pound development which could create 400 jobs would intensify their ordeal by juggernaut . |
| 24 | ENVIRONMENT Secretary Michael Howard warned fellow ministers last night that a huge cash injection is the only way to prevent the council tax turning into a Poll Tax Two disaster . |
| 25 | That was the interesting thing that said to Alistaire last night that a three column centimetres depending on which periodical it is or paper it 's in can do you far more good or damage than twenty at another . |
| 26 | Union sources thought last night that an all-out strike was unlikely , although various forms of non-co-operation might be considered . |
| 27 | A spokesman for Lothian Health Board said last night that an appropriate salary package was needed to attract the right calibre of staff . |
| 28 | The last thing that a representational theorist really wants to have to explain is the global nature of thinking ; and I suppose we can regard Fodor 's pessimism as an implicit kind of owning up to this . |
| 29 | The report , leaked to Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) , contradicts the claim made in the government White Paper on the environment released last year that a great deal had been done " to maintain and improve the quality of our rivers " . |
| 30 | Ever since the finance minister directed late last year that a big chunk of public-sector investment money be deployed in the Japanese stockmarket , the tactics of those managing these funds have grown increasingly heavy-handed . |