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

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1 POWYS Fire Brigade is represented at the 50th anniversary celebrations of Fire Service Benevolent Fund in London today .
2 The third card is placed on the u of mutus and the fourth card is placed on the second u in mutus .
3 The outlook in the UK is still gloomy , McAlpine says , borrowings short-term will rise , and a small loss is anticipated in the first half ; but site costs are down , and site visits are up sharply .
4 Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss .
5 The influence of agribusiness is felt throughout the Third world , though North American firms have found a major outlet in Latin America .
6 The first solo , tabbed last month , was in the key of E. This second solo takes off in the key of F , although the two-note pickup is played over the last beat of the final bar of E.
7 Once the critical bond at the crack tip has broken , the peak stress concentration is transferred to the next bond , and so on , like a ladder in a silk stocking .
8 The ApT sites on either side of the central CG are cut less well than the other ApT sites , while cleavage is increased at the second ApT on the 3'-side .
9 The breadth of study is maintained in the second year when Chemistry is taken with two other subjects for which there is wide choice including Astronomy , Business Studies , Chemical Pharmacology , Computer Science , Economics , Geology , Industrial Management , Maths , Physics and many others .
10 The introduction to the study is contained in the first two or three paragraphs of the article , which also briefly summarize its results and implications .
11 Under terms of the acquisition , SmartStar will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sapiens International , which will pay up to 1.27m new shares ; closing is seen in the next several months .
12 The intermingling of theory and practice is shown in the first place by the fact that the systematic study of politics is far from being confined to institutions of higher learning , even though academic political studies , like the social sciences generally , have undergone a remarkable expansion during the present century .
13 ‘ Oh no , not again , ’ remarks an attractive blonde whose car is stopped for the second ti me in a day .
14 It is a struggle Ellen and no mistake and though I have been thrifty as mother brought us all up to be and the rent is paid for the next year I am hard put to pay wages and still eat and keep warm .
15 ‘ But my biggest ambition is to play in the First Division for Middlesbrough . ’
16 An apparently holistic analysis of racist images and their ideological effect is followed in the second sentence by a switch into an argument about the way racism is reproduced through processes of transmission in micro-contexts like the family or peer group .
17 The effect is shown on the second swatch .
18 Some £26 billion of capital investment by the industry is required over the next 10 years .
19 Meanwhile most of Ulster 's top moto cross riders will be heading for Saintfield on Saturday when the Brian Bell Memorial Trophy is run for the 24th time .
20 Then the first capacitor is coupled to the second one again , and so on .
21 If the desired key is higher than this , the key is compared to the third quartile record ( if less , to the first quartile record ) .
22 A small amount of mixed low-viscosity resin/ hardener is applied to the first face , which is mounted on the lapped surface of the slide .
23 Will the Minister accept that the flaw in his argument is that no figure is projected for the next financial year which will take the amount needed over the present limits agreed under the 1987 legislation ?
24 If the answer turns out to be by a ‘ dock identification ’ ( i.e. the witness is identified for the first time in court ) then it must be remembered that this procedure is potentially so unfair to the accused that the court of trial retains a discretion to prevent it ( Horsham JJ. , ex p .
25 The control signal for the switch is derived from the first divider bistable ( at twice the core switching frequency ) by differentiating the square wave and clipping off the negative pulses with a diode .
26 It may also , of course , be the reason why the action is lost in the first place , because evidence for the truth of the statement is unavailable from the person who originally made it .
27 The melody is given to the 1st violins ( also divisi ) in octaves .
28 In flights , each lock is separated from the next by a space and has its own independent gates .
29 Her eye for the natural scene is revealed for the first time in her ‘ Alfoxden Journal ’ ( 1798 ) , the first fruit of the creative partnership between brother and sister which is celebrated at the climax of Wordsworth 's ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ .
30 A woman seeks the truth of her ancestry , and discovers truth can be what you want it to be ; in a hospital a neglected old man weaves fables in a lost language ; fantasy becomes reality when a young boy 's sense of wonder is awakened by the first man in space ; a man 's obsession with ‘ the dogs ’ has grim but farcical consequences ; a couple 's holiday in France is disturbed by the ghosts of war ; a chance encounter brings an unexpected delight to a birdwatcher .
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