Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 2 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 3 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 4 | To the passengers in the skies over the Atlantic drinking free champagne to celebrate the first anniversary of Virgin Atlantic , oblivious to all the dramas which had unfolded to keep them airborne , it probably would have seemed a bargain . |
| 5 | Assurances that a new era was underway were made at a civic banquet to celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the People 's Republic . |
| 6 | But Kevin Keegan 's team are still 12 points in front and their good-looking football dominated the first half and the last 20 minutes . |
| 7 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 8 | But the old soldier had the last laugh . |
| 9 | An exhibition at the British Museum marks the seventieth anniversary of the opening of the pharaoh 's tomb and takes a close look at its discoverer |
| 10 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 11 | An interdenominational service celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Women 's World Day of Prayer will be held at St Catherine 's Church , Crook , on March 6 at 7pm . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman quoted the first paragraph of AMMA 's report . |
| 13 | I am not surprised that the right hon. Gentleman avoided the first point , because the report to which my hon. Friend the Member for Poole ( Mr. Ward ) referred produced the following answer within the Labour party : ’ Some argue it will highlight one of our weaker points ’ . |
| 14 | When does the right hon. Gentleman expect the next tranche of type 23 orders , to which he did not refer in his statement , to be in the pipeline and when can we expect the next round of tendering to start for those ? |
| 15 | McCallen is hoping that the Honda will remain in one piece after tomorrow for it travels on to Donington for the British Championship meeting the next day where it will be ridden by Steve Hislop with McCallen reverting to the slower RC30 Honda . |
| 16 | This currently funded project represents the first stage of this research . |
| 17 | The proper way to put the last sentence would be to say : ‘ If B is charged with such-and-such a crime , he will have a good defence . ’ |
| 18 | Khaled Nezzar became the first Defence Minister of Cabinet status appointed in 25 years . |
| 19 | Desert Storm , with its thousands of sorties a day , could have been planned without computers ( the Schlieffen plan launched the first world war with sweat and brainpower , little more ) ; but computers allow the plans to be fine-tuned and to be altered quickly . |
| 20 | There is some reason to doubt that all the discrepancies can be eliminated by taking account of the short-term/long-term distinction : Lantz 's ( 1973 ) demonstration of superior latent inhibition with spaced trials came from a procedure in which the first conditioning trial followed the last trial of pre-exposure ; James ' ( 1971 ) demonstration of perfect retention used , in training , the interstimulus intervals typical of studies of short-term habituation . |
| 21 | His husky moan of arousal as she placed her hands on his warm chest shattered the last remnants of any uncertainty she might have felt , and her arms closed about him as she revelled in the hard pressure of Ross 's body , the slight roughness of his masculine jaw as her silk gown was torn away and he pressed his burning lips to the soft , fragrant valley between her full breasts . |
| 22 | The Comintern 's aim was to convert a nationalist struggle into a broader social struggle ( in accordance with part of its remit ) , but Comintern officials made no serious attempt to fulfil the second part of the resolutions adopted at the Sixth Congress by setting up a Communist party in Nicaragua , which could have given the Sandinista movement an organisational base and therefore the possibility of continuity ( Cerdas Cruz : 1986a , pp. 363–97 ) . |
| 23 | The Zimbabwean President , Mr Robert Mugabe , yesterday reiterated earlier pledges to resettle hundreds of thousands of black families , but allayed white farmers ' fears that their land would be seized with minimal compensation to mark the tenth independence anniversary . |
| 24 | The Zimbabwean President , Mr Robert Mugabe , yesterday reiterated earlier pledges to resettle hundreds of thousands of black families , but allayed white farmers ' fears that their land would be seized with minimal compensation to mark the tenth independence anniversary . |
| 25 | He will now take part in today 's crucial meeting to agree the next moves in the Gatt talks . |
| 26 | But a concern with the political unrest preceding the Civil War caused the third part , De Cive , to be prematurely ‘ ripened and plucked ’ before the first two , De Corpore ( ‘ On Body ’ , 1655 ) and De Homine ( ‘ On Man ’ , 1657 ) . |
| 27 | A sudden noise from the cupboard followed by a distinct clucking distracted the next Lady Deverill 's attention . |
| 28 | And in that desperate last set , McEnroe survived the strongest test yet on his self-imposed code of conduct when a dubious ace saved the third match point he held on Sanchez 's serve . |
| 29 | The authors of this perfervid , crowded adventure use the first person device to plot the course of Kemp 's feelings concurrently with the bold actions in which he is conventionally heroic . |
| 30 | In May 1960 the EEC began to look at ways of liberalising the movement of capital , and the following year issued the first regulations governing the existence of cartels . |