Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same year an Act was passed declaring that from henceforth the boundaries of all the royal forests should be taken to extend no further than those ‘ commonly reputed , used or taken in the twentieth year of the reign of James I [ 1622–23 ] . |
| 2 | The cubs , all between three and seven weeks old , have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks . |
| 3 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 4 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 5 | They left within two days of his release , leaving me tired , dazed , relieved and waiting for the Second Son to come ‘ home ’ for yet another week-end . |
| 6 | The main reason for this is that the simple plan and elevation of the original cathedral have become obscured by later work , for the cathedral was being continuously added to , altered and developed from the eleventh to the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 8 | The main house is long and low and dates from the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the first goal against England . |
| 10 | She looked young and pretty and relaxed for the first part of the evening until a ghastly sense of anti-climax set in when she realized that many of the young English guests had arrived well watered and rowdy after their coach trip , soon to become hideously drunk on the Ashley 's generous provision of champagne and wine , with a few dainty canapés and other elegant nibbles . |
| 11 | The Bernt Carlsson Trust , which is chaired by Mrs Glenys Kinnock , wife of the Labour leader , pledges to ‘ aid the poor and distressed in the third world ’ . |
| 12 | If the company has been dormant from the time of its formation , the special resolution will be effective if passed before the first general meeting at which accounts are to be laid . |
| 13 | Now she has followed this up with her second book , The Kitchen God 's Wife ( Flamingo , £5.99 , published April 23 ) , which is as powerful and moving as the first . |
| 14 | Debt-laden disco operator European Leisure is suspending dividend payments as it struggles to service bank loans in the face of heavy debts and the recession.The group is still in the black but trading in the first two months of the year has been ‘ difficult and stable ’ . |
| 15 | The ability to lock the rope quickly is also very useful when searching for the next stance , or else in performing diagonal manoeuvres . |
| 16 | The match seemed as good as settled by the first evening . |
| 17 | A mock battle ensued — at least , she hoped it was mock — then the pair went racing soundlessly off to push the unlatched communicating door ajar and disappear into the next room . |
| 18 | Twice Michael had lashed out at him and hurt him , only to be contrite and loving in the next breath . |
| 19 | Lizzie jelfs and Caroline Billingham all qualified but fell in the first round … |
| 20 | If these do not yield results which support the hypothesis , it may either be because the experiments were ineffectively designed , in which case the researcher will - design some more , or because the hypothesis was invalid as formulated in the first place , in which case the researcher will reformulate it , and then work out what new experiments are needed to test it . |
| 21 | The stipulation pour autrui is already effective , but may become inoperative if rejected by the third party . |
| 22 | O. coriacea superficially resembles Ophiotrema alberti from which it differs by the lack of distinct spinelets on the disk ; the shape of the adoral shields which are straight and do not have an indented proximal edge while those of Ophiotrema alberti are more wing-like and indented over the second oral tentacle pore ; the shape of the oral shields which are arrow shaped not round and almost hemispherical as in some specimens of Ophiotrema and by the absence of tentacle scales in Ophiotoma . |
| 23 | Grazing groups receive aid based on the number of livestock managed in common and paid over the first 3 years after being set up ; amounts range from 144FF to 370FF per livestock unit ( c. £12.50-£32. 17 ) , the higher rates payable to the groups with least livestock units . |
| 24 | The address to send stuff to is DR BUTCHER ( MD ) , COMMODORE FORCE , So , if Nurse Enema would be so kind as to wheel in the first vict … erm patient , I 'll sharpen my instruments . |
| 25 | Children who were at least 6 months old entered the trials at the first dosing round or at a subsequent round and left at the last dosing round , or when they moved out of the study area , died , or were withdrawn from the trial . |
| 26 | Born in America 's Midwest , Seberg , who committed suicide in 1979 , came to prominence as Jean Paul Belmondo 's co-star in the French new wave classic Breathless and starred in the first ever X-rated movie released in the States , Birds In Peru . |
| 27 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 28 | During January , six planets are visiting your sign , so to say that life 's likely to be busy , fun and demanding for the next few months is an understatement . |