Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money which in the sixteenth century had played merely a marginal , though a necessary part , now became the one thing necessary for the maintenance of life … |
| 2 | These meetings were often passionate affairs : the deadening decorum which in the twentieth century has come to be identified with religious gatherings did not prevail in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 4 | Er I 'll just talk erm just talk briefly about emergency access money , cos this wi this covers one point I in the next session . |
| 5 | and we 're , and then , and then I 'll start in , in room one on the seventh floor . |
| 6 | Then on the day of issue you address the envelope , stick on the stamps , post it in the First Day Cover posting box , and it will receive a First-Day-of-Issue postmark . |
| 7 | Nick Kirby from Inimex Genetics ( left ) and sale organiser Peter Padfield with the top-priced lots in the fifth Hayleys Invitational Sale , Genesis Leadman Dora ( left ) and Allstar Leadman Marcie . |
| 8 | Roman answered the phone himself at the first ring , and Claudia 's heart turned over . |
| 9 | However , it was precisely the lack of consensus about Thebes ' — or anybody else 's — leadership which in the fifth century led to federalism of so unusual and developed a kind , and which gave Boiotia the cohesion , and the manpower , to defeat Sparta at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 10 | It behaves just like Tit for Tat itself after the first move , but — this is what makes it technically nasty — it does defect on the very first move of the game . |
| 11 | The question is Schedule One with the first schedule of the bill as many as that opinion will say content ? |
| 12 | We 'll all get one sixth that 's dealt with one pizza what about the next pizza ? |
| 13 | Using this last possibility , Spenser implies that the English acting firmly against Ireland might demonstrate that they have purified the fault which was going to cause Ireland to scourge them in the first place , namely a tameness in executing God 's designs against savage immorality . |
| 14 | Graffiti around his house sneer ‘ Ustasha ’ , the name of the puppet government which during the last war collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 15 | Her heart sank as she remembered the phone call which for the first time began to make sense . |
| 16 | Very kind , but international players are supposed to be habitually influential , and it was Hazard who in the second half , with a few incisive passes , gifts from the heavens on a day like this , left a greater mark . |
| 17 | My main opposition in the final was Phil Brown from Birmingham , already an established international and the man who over the next decade or so was to be a team-mate of mine and to be the British anchorman in some very fine 4 × 400 metres relay performances . |
| 18 | Below me were Ribblehead and the viaduct , while to my right was Ingleborough which for the first time in days looked fresh and green instead of glowering and grey . |
| 19 | This was an adaptation , evolved by the courts , of the writ of account which from the thirteenth century had been available against bailiffs , factors and receivers . |
| 20 | So you might as well go to the information office in San Marco and book yourself on the next flight out of here . |
| 21 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 22 | Shortly afterwards Metzinger published an article in the literary review Pan on the work of Picasso , Braque , Le Fauconnier and Delaunay in which he proclaimed a new type of painting which for the first time broke with hellenic traditions . |
| 23 | They deny their own law , denying my right , and the precedent is there to stead them in the next encroachment . |
| 24 | Behind the showroom was the Farrs ' house which on the first floor extended to the street . |
| 25 | Female friendship is expressed in fiction and especially in letters through language which by the mid-eighteenth century used terms of ecstasy almost by convention : |
| 26 | Moreover , since there is no irreducible kernel of class interest which in the last analysis guides all else , the ideas , the culture , the religion of a given society may well play a critical role in explaining social and political development . |
| 27 | But there has to be something to trigger the interest in the first place and whatever that is and however mild a form that might be lust , lust might be a more extreme form of it , but there has to be something to interest you in the first place , before you can go on to love , to knowing more about the person and having this in love feeling develop into love . |