Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No setting off home straight after a quick lunch to be sure of catching the last lift ? |
| 2 | In addition , three seminars for general SVQ co-ordinators from schools , colleges , and other centres involved in piloting the first batch of awards have been arranged for March . |
| 3 | Just under a century later , in 869–70 , the Emperor Basil II , though he had turned for help to Pope Hadrian II , was responsible for summoning the fourth Council of Constantinople . |
| 4 | Dalglish is concerned after seeing the Second Division table-toppers manage just one win in their last seven games . |
| 5 | Family connections — always important in finding the first job for a girl or boy leaving school — could now be used in the printing trade , whatever the union said . |
| 6 | And finally tonight congratulations to Hereford United on reaching the fourth round of the FA Cup where they 'll face the might of Brian Clough and his Nottingham Forest side . |
| 7 | In a letter to the Institute , Mr. Major offers his congratulations to Bovis Construction Ltd on becoming the 200th company to join the newly launched Chartered Building Company Scheme , which he calls ‘ a testimony to the British building industry in its determination to achieve ever improving standards ’ . |
| 8 | On Friday he played the match of his life to beat the defending champion , Jahangir Khan , in five games , and at 6-0 up in the final game on Saturday he was not far from becoming the first player to beat both Khans in the same tournament . |
| 9 | I understood him to reproach us for being slow in commissioning the fourth vessel . |
| 10 | I listened and learned , watched and learned , and soon became adept at striking the first blow : if there was any teasing and tormenting going on ( and there was plenty ) I made sure that I was an active and not a passive participant . |
| 11 | And you feel anxious about getting the first lot of seeds sown out of doors . |
| 12 | Finally , they would not be too keen on obeying the seventh commandment concerning adultery and abuse of sex ( Exodus 20:14 ) . |
| 13 | The composer 's extensive treatment of this theme comes very close to toppling the first movement 's structure in some versions , where virtually every note is caressed to the point of near-suffocation . |
| 14 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 15 | The internal changes in productive post-artisanal relations in literature are especially significant in understanding the next market phase . |