Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to report to parents , employers or the next stage of education ; |
| 2 | I swallowed bitter coffee dregs and the last mouthful of chocolate cake . |
| 3 | Now the pillars of flesh between them were stiffened with bony rods and the first pair of these bones , slowly over the millennia , gradually hinged forward . |
| 4 | This is illustrated in Fig. 6 , showing typical mapping from the start of the four bit plane base addresses and the first line of pixels on the screen . |
| 5 | It had been a hard year , the public felt Lauda had been ill done by , and everyone felt that they were seeing the apotheosis of one of the great drivers and the first signs of greatness in his natural successor , Alain Prost . |
| 6 | The young Pathan had guarded my car zealously and got my thanks and the second half of his reward . |
| 7 | Amongst the named were the ex-Minister for Women 's Affairs , a provincial political activist , some prominent labour leaders , leading members of the media , policewomen and the first firewoman in the province . |
| 8 | There were many wound infections and the first floor of the hospital stank of suppuration . |
| 9 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 10 | And , as always , telling us where you are so that we can keep sending you our mailings and the next edition of The Birmingham Magazine . |
| 11 | Tennis The competitions involve boys and girls in the under-12 and under-14 age groups and the first matches on the centre 's main tennis courts are at 9.30 am each day . |
| 12 | Twenty-seven research institutes will collaborate as working groups and the first buildings to be the object of conservation have been decided upon . |
| 13 | But at least their wits would have cleared again in time for Sunday 's meetings and the next milestone in the struggle . |
| 14 | The latest talks , which began with a meeting planned between the flight attendants union and management on Wednesday to discuss a new labour contract are not expected to produce firm proposals and the next bid for United Airlines may not get off the ground until well into 1990 . |
| 15 | Klemperer was actually present at the rehearsals and the first performance of the Mahler in Prague in 1908 , and thus his interpretation can lay claim to some element of authenticity . |
| 16 | By the evening , many Romanians joined the ethnic Hungarians and the first cries of ‘ wake up Romanians ’ were heard . |
| 17 | The first order of meaning is available to participants but the second order of signification is a ‘ hidden ’ level of meaning in that it is not readily available to participants ( who might believe striptease to be erotic ) and needs to be generated by an analyst who knows that it is there and so looks for it . |
| 18 | The 1968 Act was to be a short , simple measure , a fresh start , free from technicalities and the first step towards codification of the criminal law . |
| 19 | Once the parties have agreed terms and the first drafts of the scheme documents are prepared , the parties will be ready to announce publicly the proposed takeover . |
| 20 | During that week , the BEF advanced eastward : the 2nd Corps toward La Bassée , the 3rd in the general direction of Armentieres and the 1st Corps to the north , past Ypres . |
| 21 | The Silence of the Lambs has epigraphs from Donne 's Devotions and the First Book of Corinthians and other allusions which will ensure its place on reading lists , at least in America . |
| 22 | There is no hard-and-fast difference between basalts and andesites ; there is a broad transitional group of rocks between them , known as basaltic andesites , just as there is a similar transitional group between andesites and the next group of rocks to be described , the rhyolites . |
| 23 | All day I sat so , and in the late afternoon , when the shadows were long on the castle lawns and the last rays of the sun were brassy and chill , I knew with certainty that something terrible had happened , and ran out of the castle , and away to the dark woods . |
| 24 | With every niche filled , the only option left is the update , and here Guinness have been steaming ahead yet again , the two most recent arrivals being the fifth edition of Billboard 's Book Of USA Top-40 Hits and the third edition of The Billboard Book Of Number One Hits , both bookshelf benders , the former boasting 674 pages while the latter weighs in at a hefty 844 . |
| 25 | There was no miracle , although across Western Europe Sunday morning saw the last throws of ‘ the diplomats and the last prayers of the people who believed . |
| 26 | If a book or manuscript has headings or the first capitals of paragraphs painted or printed in red , the rest of the text being black , it is said to be ‘ rubricated ’ . |
| 27 | I had an easy 2 hour labour and there I suddenly was , holding my beautiful baby daughter Danielle in my arms and the last thing on my mind from that moment on was work . |
| 28 | She was the first woman delegate to the Humberside County Association of Trades Councillors and the first woman on the executive and has had an enormous impact on the Association 's efforts on women 's issues . |
| 29 | All the necessary documents have been drafted by the two sides and the first conference of the new cultural commonwealth is due to be held at Dagomys at the end of 1992 . |
| 30 | Adoption of workplans and the first call for proposals should follow soon after , and first contracts could be signed by November 1991 . |