Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course Oxford supporters do n't need reminding that last season they led Fulham 1-0 after the first leg and they lost 5-3 at home . |
| 2 | GREAT BRITAIN 'S team of Mark Petchey and Chris Wilkinson yesterday beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the first round of the European men 's team tennis championships in Trieste , Italy . |
| 3 | There is a minor triumph for British tennis when Jo Durie , Clare Wood and Anne Hobbs beat Indonesia 3-0 in the first round of the Federation Cup in Tokyo . |
| 4 | Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III . |
| 5 | Ulster bowlers showed up well with Willie Loughrey from Portrush , a senior inter-association bowler 11 win over Phillip Darcy in the first round and then beat Paul Doyle 21–15 in the second round . |
| 6 | A 1-0 win keeps Swindon second in the first division . |
| 7 | This was followed on 1 July 1893 by the first all-corridor trains in the UK : three new trains of six coaches each , used on the West Coast route to Scotland , two in service and one in reserve . |
| 8 | When Mary arrived in Scotland complete with the second dowry , James set about transforming a number of his favourite residences . |
| 9 | Portugal , who beat England 1-0 in the last World Cup , need to do a bit more than that next Wednesday to deny the Czechoslovakians a place in next year 's finals — they need to win by four goals . |
| 10 | In what some believed to be a dummy run of tomorrow 's final , Jackie Lockhart 's team beat Christine Cannon 's Stranraer 8-7 in the third round . |
| 11 | In a report on Sept. 2 to the 21st meeting of the standing committee of the seventh National People 's Congress , meeting on Aug. 27-Sept. 4 , Vice-Premier Zou Jiahua noted improvements in economic performance [ see p. 38340 ] , but cited problems in stockpiling , " debt chains " between enterprises and poor returns from the state sector , leading to " comparatively big difficulties " for the state budget . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the National Opposition Union ( Unión Nacional de Opositora — UNO ) had on Sept. 2 in the fifth round of voting selected Violeta Barrios de Chamorro ( the owner of the opposition newspaper La Prensa ) and Virgilio Godoy as its presidential and vice-presidential candidates . |
| 13 | Falcon will send children to Florida free for the first time , Martyn announced savings of up to £105 on its Greece and Cyprus brochure and SunMed is offering seven nights in Corfu for just Pounds 99 . |
| 14 | " Celebrations " were organized by the Chinese authorities in May 1991 on the 40th anniversary of the " liberation " of Tibet . |
| 15 | The Collective State Presidency , excluding the Slovene representative Janez Drnovsek , met on July 4 for the first time with Mesic as President [ see p. 38275 ] . |
| 16 | For the next hour he wrote out his thoughts slowly , then rewrote the simple account of what had taken place on 18 July 1918 during the second battle of the Marne . |
| 17 | His more general position is perhaps best summed up by an extract from the speech he made at 3.10 in the morning of 20 May 1992 during the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill . |
| 18 | On Dec. 25 a 79-member national commission was created to determine the composition and agenda of a National Conference which was scheduled for May 1992 as the next step in the democratization process . |
| 19 | ISLANDERS in the tiny Pacific state of Palau vote in a referendum on February 6 for the seventh time on a deal with the United States which would give the US strategic military rights in the Western Pacific only 500 miles from the troubled Philippines . |
| 20 | I will never forget hearing the Leningrad Philharmonic for the first time , the incredible discipline those players had in the combination of strings and brass — it 's impossible to forget it because it 's impossible to repeat it . |
| 21 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 22 | More than 700 tickets were sold for York 's controversial allnight rave on the Knavesmire on July 3 on the first day of sale . |
| 23 | Multiparty elections to a 23-member constituent commission were held on July 23-26 for the first time since the 1977 coup , when Sir James Mancham was overthrown by France-Albert René [ see pp. 28485-86 ] . |
| 24 | Bulwark was commissioned in January 1960 and stationed with her Commando embarked at Singapore ; Albion followed as the second Commando Carrier about a year later ; construction of six Army-owned Landing Ships Logistic ( LSLs ) was authorised in August 1960 ; the Assault Ships Fearless and Intrepid were ordered in 1961 and 1962 ; and design work was started in December 1961 on the next generation of aircraft carriers , the first of which was code-named CVA 01 . |
| 25 | One might argue that Montini , who had more ‘ on-the-job ’ training for the office of pope and was intellectually better prepared for it than anyone since Benedict XIV in the eighteenth century , became pope too late to give of his best . |
| 26 | Membership would entail the release of detailed information on the Soviet economy , and observers saw the publication of Gosbank ( Soviet State Bank ) accounts on July 16 for the first time since 1936 as the beginnings of this . |
| 27 | Pickering have their wicket keeper Richard Gray available for the first time this season on recovering from a hand injury for the visit of Scarborough in the EYC while Whitby are unchanged for the visit of York in the same competition . |
| 28 | Savimbi returned to Luanda on Sept. 27 for the first time since the start of the 16-year civil war . |
| 29 | A ( Soviet ) DRA proposal at the Geneva talks in February 1987 for the first time made public a time frame for Soviet withdrawal , eighteen months , with no conditions attached to the process of ‘ national reconciliation ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 30 | ‘ To the memory of Leopold Thomas Rice Dersingham who departed this life 12 July 1942 in the 18th year of his life . |