Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1966 , British post offices issued the first special Christmas stamps . |
| 2 | In December 1988 Blyth 's newly formed British Steel Challenge made the first steps towards prising open the closed shop of big boat ocean racing . |
| 3 | The arrival of universal pension provision following the Second World War laid the foundation for age discrimination against all women aged 60 or over and men aged 65 or over . |
| 4 | An example can be seen at the Didcot Railway Centre With the fine locomotives designed by Daniel Gooch , the GWR 's broad gauge trains formed the first real expresses and indeed the inaugural train from London to Bristol led to the comment that this must be the only time on record that an engineer had exceeded his promises ! |
| 5 | The following study attempts to avoid the first problem by increasing the data available for the calculation of ROC curves and to address the second problem by using a much more varied selection of stimuli . |
| 6 | The manservant dropped to one knee , brought the crossbow up , again the death-bearing click , and the whirring crossbow bolt caught the second assassin just before he slipped into the darkness . |
| 7 | Buses — some of them upside-down and turned into barricades — were strewn across the square while a mountain of upended transport containers formed the last Christian front line . |
| 8 | Future joint space observatories include the first large gamma ray observatory in 1985 and a cooled telescope for studying very short radio waves in 1987 . |
| 9 | The Civil Aviation Committee met the next day and challenged two parts of the draft agreement that the Americans had inserted : the right of civil aircraft to use the US-leased bases in the Caribbean and Atlantic , and the right of US airlines to ‘ change gauge ’ in Britain , that is , switch to smaller aircraft for flights going on as part of the fifth freedom . |
| 10 | Villa away … the premier league team took the first leg 2-1 at the Manor … |
| 11 | The national curriculum proposals form the first part of the Education Reform Bill , which also contains proposals in relation to open enrolments , financial delegation to schools , the establishment of grant maintained schools and various proposals for higher education . |
| 12 | Suppose that r is fixed ( for example by the balanced growth conditions see the next Lecture ) . |
| 13 | From the oriental gateways of Gerrard Street signposts mark out a short walk past the plethora of sex shops to Berwick Street where , on the corner , the Man Fu Kung fast food restaurant signals the last outpost of Chinese Soho . |
| 14 | Students who undertake the four-year sandwich course spend the third year in industrial placement . |
| 15 | International law experts say the first reason is the strongest and the last the weakest . |
| 16 | The resultant excitation change begins the next step and the motor accelerates with an effective switching angle of 0° . |
| 17 | Major construction projects included the second stage of the Sunchon Vinalon complex , the first stage of which was commissioned in October 1989 , the Sariwon potash fertilizer complex , a steel works , and power stations . |
| 18 | Amazingly , all four goals came from free kicks , with Brentford 's transfer-seeking defender Bates heading the first after 13 minutes from a Billy Manuel free kick . |
| 19 | This fact has been demonstrated in official and independent research studies spanning the last century . |
| 20 | Your listening to the Fox Report ; sport , and last night , Oxford United Football Club won the first leg of their second round clash with Port Vale in the Rumbelows League Cup . |
| 21 | Altogether , 7 clones exhibited reduced CytR regulation following the second cloning . |
| 22 | The same full fixture list awaits the 2nd XI , again captained by Dave Elliott . |
| 23 | Put them together in a lonely hotel room to await the first night with a new lover . |
| 24 | Blacks continued to involve themselves in boxing after the war though it was not until 1970 that a black boxer emulated the Turpins in winning a British title : Jamaican-born Bunny Sterling became the first immigrant boxer ever to win a British title when he beat Mark Rowe at Wembley . |
| 25 | Formulation of Labour Government policies to support the Third Pillar — the projection and protection of British interests overseas — needed least reorientation of traditional British military thinking that had evolved from three centuries of global geo-political experience . |
| 26 | Ricardo 's 12-litre test unit approaches the next hurdle : US Federal 1994 emission standards . |
| 27 | He loves nothing more than slaving over a hot work bench to extract the last 0.5bhp needed to win his rider a world title , but as Yamaha 's GP technical co-ordinator last year he did n't get that chance . |
| 28 | THE Alvaston Hall has a superb leisure complex offering the last word in relaxation with sauna , jacuzzi , swimming pool and tennis courts . |
| 29 | A planned remembrance reunion to mark the 50th anniversary of the low-level raid on the Ploesti oilfields in Romania in August 1943 has interested R G Crick of Welling , Kent . |
| 30 | The Olympic silver medallist faces the first two finishers in the 1500 metres at the UK Championships , Enfield 's Steve Crabb and Paul Larkins of Nene Valley Harriers . |