Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's see if England can win four Triple Crowns in a row and win six Five Nations titles outright in the next decade . |
| 2 | Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place . |
| 3 | The course provided tremendous excitement and thanks largely to the 18th hole I doubt whether it could have been topped by any course in the country . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , recent reports , such as A growing problem by the British charity Oxfam , have shown that multinational companies sell dangerous pesticides indiscriminately in the Third World , In some cases they are promoted through misleading advertising to largely illiterate farmers . |
| 5 | Taking a leaf out of NCR Corp 's book of strategies , Unisys Corp will next week unveil the first of a new line of highly configurable Intel Corp and EISA-based personal computers that , with few if any changes , will magically turn into Unix-run workstations and entry-level servers early in the second quarter . |
| 6 | A MAN said a silent prayer of thanks yesterday on the third anniversary of his heart transplant for the anonymous donor who gave him his life . |
| 7 | On South Georgia reindeer , introduced from Scandinavia by whalers early in the twentieth century , flourish and appear to be spreading ; horses and sheep introduced to the same island did not survive . |
| 8 | But Williams steps aside for the second half which belongs to De Niro . |
| 9 | It was only the head of the diminutive Collins , clearing the ball off the line , which prevented Scotland from going two goals behind in the first minute of the second half , however . |
| 10 | The game was settled with two quick goals midway through the first half.Liz Hannam reports . |
| 11 | ‘ What they will be hoping for is that they can get to a few months before before the next election , take the brakes off and try to deceive the people once again things are back on course . |
| 12 | Barely eighteen months ago after the last time , what are we doing ? |
| 13 | Boomer Maclean 's recovery stemmed from two thunderous winners late in the third game . |
| 14 | Modern whaling was invented by Norwegians late in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | The cautions referred to had been given and he had been questioned months earlier on the first charges . |
| 16 | When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes . |
| 17 | Consequently policing had a low priority , and regular police were established in rural areas only in the twentieth century . |
| 18 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 19 | Born of humble parents early in the twelfth century , he was brought up in the fenlands round the Wash , and early in life wandered among the shoals and quicksands round the mouth of the Welland in search of wrecks and treasure . |
| 20 | The remains of small Celtic-type cattle in Iceland pre-date the Vikings ' first visits early in the ninth century and the colonisation of Iceland by Norsemen about AD 930 . |
| 21 | Smith , the Gloucester full-back , kicked that goal and when Barnes pulled an easy kick at goal wide of the Gloucester posts early in the second half of extra-time , the cheers were those of the Gloucester crowd who thought their team had won . |
| 22 | Can he pilot Blackburn Rovers straight from the Second Division to the championship as Clough did with Forest ? |
| 23 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 24 | We were perhaps closest in the two winters immediately after the first rebel tour to South Africa in 1982 , when we both signed to play for Western Province while serving our Test bans . |
| 25 | The ash is a classic example of a tree which holds on to its fruits well into the next season even though they may have been ripe since October . |
| 26 | Although there may have been a settlement of Illyrian-Greeks there before the second century BC when the Roman occupation of Dalmatia began , there is little evidence of continuous use of the site until the seventh century AD . |
| 27 | Tommy Johnson put the visitors ahead in the 28th minute and they went further ahead in the 40th minute when Swindon player-manager Glenn Hoddle fouled Martin Kuhl on the edge of the area and Mark Pembridge blasted the free kick into the net . |
| 28 | Observers speculated that it offered Gorbachev 's conservative opponents probably their last chance to influence policy as a credible force in the central committee : in recent weeks a grassroots party revolt had toppled the conservative leaderships in several regions and cities , including Tyumen in West Siberia , Chernigov in the Ukraine , and Volgograd in southern European Russia , while conservatives were facing a rout in the forthcoming local soviet ( council ) elections ( in which party leaders had been encouraged to stand ) and in elections to party posts ahead of the 28th CPSU congress . |
| 29 | Gunpowder is said to have been in use in certain Continental mines early in the 17th Century . |
| 30 | Foreign Minister Casimir Bizimungu , denying reports of a much higher death toll , admitted that 300-500 rebels " wearing civilian clothes " had been killed in Army operations early in the second week of October . |