Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Following blast at its offices at Charlemont Place in Armagh , spokesman Paul Jackson said students should not telephone the board or call for the next two weeks until the backlog of work has been cleared .
2 Greavesey of course and at the risk of overdosing on goals you can see all the action that mattered from the First Division yesterday .
3 What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration .
4 It is the speaker 's intention and the addressee 's successful location of the intended referent that matter in the first usage , not the exact aptness of the description , so that we could call this usage speaker reference ( as opposed to semantic reference ; Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) .
5 The original trophy that went with the first prize disappeared — it is thought at some time during the eighteenth century — and there was never enough money to replace it .
6 It would be great to bounce back from a temporary aberration and get into the Third Division .
7 If you use a pattern such as a basic 1x1 pattern ( that 's one hole punched , one hole blank , all across the card and alternating on the next row ) the resulting fabric has very short floats , not floats at all really ( swatch 6 ) .
8 In Paris ! ) , then took a growler and made for the first address I had .
9 Robyn clutched the cast-iron railing and wondered for the first time why her legs felt so shaky and weird , why her stomach was churning so violently .
10 Ever demonstrative , Markus Stenz clearly aimed at the dramatic in Beethoven 's Symphony No4 and digging deep , uncovered hidden orchestral reserves bringing a satisfying degree of tension and thrill to the first movement .
11 The obvious one is by a chemical message leaving one cell and diffusing to the next — rather like speaking .
12 She finished the sandwich and started on the second , eating hungrily .
13 But Labour ‘ won ’ on a minority vote and governed for the next five years .
14 It only starts counting from the first row of an entry and stops at the last .
15 Thicker lines are no guarantee of invulnerability , as they can be weakened by a partial cut and snap at the next pull ; equally , they are more expensive !
16 The archway itself is in fine condition and dates from the third century B.C. It forms part of the Etruscan walls to the city and is the best extant example of Etruscan masonry .
17 If you selected a word hold down the Shift key and click on the last word of the selection — similarly for paragraphs .
18 Turn left from the entrance and wait on the first corner .
19 Claudia put the scarf carefully to one side and launched into the first task of the day , the ordering of silks and lace from London , Italy and France .
20 Open the glass fronted cupboard on the left-hand side and look on the fourth shelf from the top .
21 Maitland to be asked to circulate a copy of the draft Minute of Agreement to Christian Aid and SCIAF before the next meeting so that this can be looked at .
22 The BNSA identified maintenance and planning as the next major areas for improvement and SNL , because of their relevant experience , have been asked to lead the advice .
23 These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club .
24 They are based on notions of the future as envisioned in the first major exposition of the 1930s in America Chicago 's 1933 ‘ Century of Progress ’ .
25 We reach this conclusion in the light of the evidence that notwithstanding the rules as to dismissal for theft as applied in the first place … each case can be and is reviewed on the intervention of the security officer who … will make an appropriate recommendation where the case does not warrant dismissal . ’
26 That is , I think , a somewhat tendentious description of the classic realist novel , and , in fact , writers like E. M. Forster , D. H. Lawrence , Ernest Hemingway , Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene have written fiction that answers to the twentieth century 's sense of moral and philosophical crisis without deviating violently from the conventions of classic realism .
27 Furthermore , two-earner couples enjoy greater allowances ( 2.6SA ) than single-earner couples ( 1.6SA ) , a provision that dates from the Second World War when there was a policy to encourage married women to work .
28 Sometimes you might have a vision for an entire song and sometimes the vision is just for a particular part that relates to the next particular part . ’
29 The whole great crime story wave that began in the last years of the nineteenth century and rose to its towering peak in the 1920s and 1930s began with the short story .
30 Since we must have some way of linking each component to the next one in the structure , each component must contain a link or pointer that points to the next component in the structure .
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