Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other structures were dispersed to linger only in the imagination of designers ; in its place Conservative freedom provided London with the first of the giant company headquarters built in the style of Orwell 's Ministry of Truth — the Shell building ( 1958 ) . |
| 2 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 3 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 4 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 5 | He prepares to do so , and only when it is clear that he will obey the divine command does God at the last moment spare his son and tell him to kill a sheep instead . |
| 6 | November is seldom an easy month for you and , until the Sun enters Sagittarius around the 22nd , life tends to be somewhat dreary and downbeat . |
| 7 | But one the Sun enters Gemini on the 19th and makes a decisive aspect to Jupiter on the 26th , the worst will be over . |
| 8 | The Sun enters Gemini on the 20th and highlights romance and the good things in life , but tempers could flare if you do n't settle a complex moral or financial issue . |
| 9 | Unpublished figures from Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , Greenpeace says , indicate that 22,580 tons of toxic waste entered Britain in the first six months of this year . |
| 10 | DAY 42 and Michael and the team hit Istanbul on the last boat out of Odessa . |
| 11 | It 's going to be a full-time job to drag Europe into the twenty-first century . |
| 12 | KEVIN Campbell , Arsenal 's goal-greedy hit man , plans to overshadow team mate Ian Wright and Blackburn 's Alan Shearer in the race to provide England with the next generation of strike stars . |
| 13 | The Royal Academy shows Calder in the first British show for thirty years |
| 14 | They 're going to be collected alright I 'm gon na meet them halfway actually between here and Derbyshire erm at the end of November beginning of December and they are actually going , the last lorry leaves Derbyshire on the tenth of |
| 15 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 16 | Alexander and the non-executives he has recruited , such as Sir Ian MacLaurin , Sir Michael Angus , Hanson 's Martin Taylor , and Sir Charles Powell , have decided to leap a generation in finding a manager to lead NatWest into the 21st century . |
| 17 | Mr Ashdown , campaigning in north Wales , raised the stakes on electoral reform by saying that his precondition for talks would be legislation to implement PR in the first session of Parliament . |
| 18 | Slick catching aided the West Indies effort , Lara setting the pattern by swooping low to his left as the solitary slip to despatch Wessels off the last ball of the day 's third over , and their captain gone , the South Africans never appeared to have the conviction that they could achieve their moderate target . |
| 19 | His speech , manner and inbred courtesy reminded Joan of the 13th Earl of Antrim . |
| 20 | Ironically , it was Watford 's first since Jason Drysdale 's penalty despatched Leeds in the third round . |
| 21 | The alarm clock woke Claudia for the second time and she sniffed appreciatively at the aroma penetrating her room . |
| 22 | He made his official Palace debut in the FA Cup tie with QPR on 5 January 1946 and was between the posts when Palace met Mansfield for the first post-war League match on 31 August 1946 . |
| 23 | Commenting on its figures ( see page five ) , Eschborn , Germany-based Linotype AG says its 1992 domestic orders fell by 6% but the company enjoyed solid gains in key foreign markets , with the US up 18% , Japan up 24% and the Middle and Far East showing gains of between 15% and 49% ; the US market surpassed Germany for the first time , and exports at the computerised printing systems and equipment company accounted for 72.1% of overall business in 1992 after 69.1% a year earlier . |