Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In applying the national law and in particular the provisions of a national law specifically introduced in order to implement Directive 76/207 , national courts are required to interpret their national law in the light of the wording and the purpose of the directive in order to achieve the result referred to in the third paragraph of Article 189 . |
| 2 | ‘ Now , does anybody know where all that cotton comes from in the first place ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So what has Liveseys ' business consisted of in the last ten |
| 4 | What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city . |
| 5 | Its truth-value does not depend on whether there actually occurred the happy event referred to by the second referring expression . |
| 6 | Another example is the numbfish which Pliny the Elder wrote about in the first century AD . |
| 7 | There was a strange rasping noise coming from over the next rise . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 9 | As the speed is increased , the damping becomes less and you will be able to decide on a reasonable limit to keep to for the first half hour . |
| 10 | They have been radiocarbon dated to about the 9th or 10th centuries AD and seem to have been intended for use in ceremonies associated with an important priest . |
| 11 | Dickins had had nothing more than a back pass and a free-kick to deal with in the first 30 minutes but showed signs of nervousness when Bull challenged for a Birch free-kick . |
| 12 | Maybe the situation referred to in the next letter is worse than we thought ! |
| 13 | I had a most interesting meeting in Scotland with all of our lay delegates there , erm on Friday and some of you within British Gas will know that in Scotland they 've even more problems with the M A P L than any of the other regions because they were operating a different system to start with in the first place . |
| 14 | I do n't want my house broken into in the first place . |
| 15 | For anything we know , it is an agreement entered into for the first time , in consequence of this instrument … . |