Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 2 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 3 | Wall fabric always sounds like the last word in luxury but in fact need not cost much . |
| 4 | The current study clearly shows for the first time that PT-gliadin and/or fragments are intracellulary present in normal enterocytes after exposure . |
| 5 | The club now meets on the first Tuesday evening in the month from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm . |
| 6 | The tonic accent normally falls on the last item , but this does not tell us where the given element ends and the new one begins . |
| 7 | The frequency of intercourse approximately halves in the first year of marriage but takes about 20 years to halve again . |
| 8 | A prompt then appears for the next entry . |
| 9 | Plainly this error too derives from the first one , for if the concept ‘ profession ’ has no theoretical existence , and yet is recognised as a concept , it lacks all material grounding . |
| 10 | The change usually occurs on the first beat of a bar or phrase , which eliminates any fussiness when the footwork is intricate . |
| 11 | Second stage recovery generally begins in the third year . |
| 12 | Most Orthopteroid insects , Mecoptera , Trichoptera and Hymenoptera show only a little more concentration than this , but the metathoracic ganglion commonly fuses with the first 1–3 abdominal ones and the 7th and subsequent abdominal ganglia form a compound centre . |
| 13 | Thou or You forms are frequently used to address personifications , at which point the Friend or Mistress often slips into the third person , as part of an imagined triangle . |
| 14 | There is no time limit on the patient 's capacity for physical recovery , although an experienced physiotherapist usually knows within the first few weeks of starting treatment how quick or slow a hemiplegic patient 's physical recovery is likely to be . |
| 15 | The earliest record for spring arrival is of one at Chidham on 23 March 1971 , but arrival always starts in the first 10 days of April , and some movement continues to mid-June . |
| 16 | The system then moves into the second level of activity by enquiring as to the nature of this assembly . |
| 17 | Perhaps , as in humans , immunisation occasionally occurs during the first pregnancy , and the 8 per cent refers to these foals . |
| 18 | The present dramatic ruin probably dates from the sixteenth century , although it is believed that Dunegal had his manor house on the site in the twelfth century . |
| 19 | This guideline often overlaps with the next one , which relates |