Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had about six or seven weeks to finish the album and by the last week , I did n't have a vocal on two of the tracks and this is where it actually began — David writing on microphone . |
| 2 | Digital Equipment Corp has announced that it will offer a new hub backplane , code-named One Hub , in early 1993 , plugging the gap at the high end of the DEChub 90 range and for the first time offering Ethernet , Token Ring , and the Fibre Distributed Data Interface , FDDI , at first , and Asynchronous Transfer Mode high-speed networking technology , when it becomes available , in one product . |
| 3 | It is a language that needs a large memory capacity and for the first time there were machines available to use it . |
| 4 | Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite . |
| 5 | Karnival , another high profile area of the Students ' Union , concentrates its work on fund raising and in the last year raised over £100,000 for various charities . |
| 6 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 7 | Seven minutes into the second period Gavin Currie got his name on the score sheet with Atkins the provider and in the 47th minute Mervyn Cooke scored from the edge of the circle . |
| 8 | Susan followed her down a short , dark passage and into the second sitting-room , which , ugly and over-full as it was , looked comparatively cheerful with its blazing fire . |
| 9 | The Festival of Britain , 1951 , was designed to tell the world that we were back in business , full of vim and zip , bursting with new ideas , new teeth in the new bulldog , through another war with honour and into the second half of the twentieth century with eagerness and confidence . |
| 10 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 11 | Captain Ally McKay grabbed a try in the first half and in the second half a brace of tries from his wing forward partner Watson secured the winning margin . |
| 12 | As they come to the final fence Second Schedule being pressed by Ebony Jane and Bishops Hall on the nearside and over the last Second Schedule and Bishops Hall on the nearside , Ebony Jane in third , in fourth place is Joe White and racing into the closing stages it 's Second Schedule with Bishops Hall on the nearside Graham Bradley again as they go to the line , Bishops Hall wins it for Harry , Second Schedule is second , Joe White is third , Ebony Jane four . |
| 13 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 14 | Samways made a vital interception to snatch the ball off Taylor 's foot and in the 71st minute Thomas hammered the ball inches wide from a Connolly pass cleverly dummied by substitute Steve Watkin . |
| 15 | That slowed things down a bit and on the second day England made some progress through the wickets . |
| 16 | This takeaway sermonette is usually tucked away after the opening prayer and before the second hymn , during which the children leave church ( in the months when Sunday School is in session ) . |
| 17 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
| 18 | Return back towards the airport , driving under Terminal Building and across the first roundabout . |
| 19 | Novas turned around 27–26 in front , but met a more solid defence and by the ninth minute had scored only five to Arena 's 15 . |
| 20 | In many of the orchids , the bees slip and fall through the flower or into a trap , for example in Stanhopea candida in Amazonia , pollination is by Eulaema moscaryi , which ‘ falls through ’ the flower after collecting the scent ; in so doing , it brushes against the pollinia and in the next flower these are lodged in the stigmatic cavity . |
| 21 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
| 22 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |
| 23 | It has an interesting history revealed in the medieval walls which encircle the town and in the 16th century castle with archaeological museum . |
| 24 | Both teams needed to win this match and in the first half , there was only one winner ; Gloucester . |
| 25 | Steve Moria 's hat-trick gave Cardiff a 3-1 lead and despite the first period ending 3-3 , the other two were about Racers receiving a harsh lesson in ice hockey as Moria ( with three more ) , John Lawless , and Ian Cooper sealed an 8-3 win . |
| 26 | Heisenberg did not immediately appreciate this last point and in the first draft of his paper it was not considered . |
| 27 | Mr Smith condemned him as the man who ‘ designed and delivered the disaster ’ that has pushed the nation into economic crisis and into the Second Division of Europe . |
| 28 | A United States ' claim that those parts of the Convention that it favours have become customary international law has considerable implications for the international law-making process and for the third party rule . |
| 29 | Keep the lights off during this process and until the next day . |
| 30 | To have Oxford Polytechnic , the largest such scheme in the sector , apparently circumventing the NAB 's preferred method of disaggregating modular courses was , however , an embarrassment and for the next cycle , commencing in 1987–88 , the Polytechnic shifted to an alternative based on ‘ subject weight ’ . |