Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHELSEA are banking on the second oldest swinger in town to outwit Middlesbrough 's attack tonight . |
| 2 | ‘ As everyone knows now , lads like Sean Gregan are playing in the first team and will be regulars in the future . ’ |
| 3 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 4 | Puddephat and Melanie Gandell were mentioned in the first paragraph , but did not appear in the rest of the piece . |
| 5 | ‘ The iniquity of the Amorite ’ , wrote Austin Farrer , ‘ is at length full , and the progeny of Hoskyns is to return on the third decade to the Promised land . ’ |
| 6 | Brisbane is targeted as the next location in 12–18 months but would not speculate on whether it would be another dual function site . |
| 7 | The approach which I take to the subject is one concerned almost exclusively with the Anglo-American tradition , though Hegel is allowed into the last chapter , at the end of which I give some references to sample writings in the continental tradition , especially critical theory . |
| 8 | In golf 's World Matchplay Championship quarter-finals at Wentworth , Seve Ballesteros beats the American , Chip Beck , 9 and 8 , but Nick Faldo is taken to the 38th hole by South Africa 's David Frost before winning a sudden-death play-off . |
| 9 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 10 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 11 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 12 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 13 | Hill was substituted in the 55th minute , too late to prevent Halifax going further behind . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that David was expelled in the third form for dissing the gym teacher who confiscated his Uzi and broke his crack-peddling ring , he still feels enough loyalty to the old alma mater not to drag its name through the mud by engaging the lads he fagged for in a ‘ naughty-word ’ style debate . |
| 15 | Marinello 's arrival at Arsenal was greeted like the second coming . |
| 16 | Edward was born on the third of March , and the advent of spring is a constant theme , and symbol of renewal , in everything he has written . |
| 17 | It was in 1913 that the first reference is made to the Luker family , proprietors of the Henley Standard , when on October 31st , Charles Luker was beaten on the 21st hole in the Ladies ' Cup semi-final . |
| 18 | Ken was rediscovered in the nineteenth century by the Oxford Movement , for whom his idea of the Church of England as part of the Universal Church and his ascetic character had a great appeal . |
| 19 | It became the permanent home of the German race with the exception of 1959 when the race was staged at Avus , and 1970 when Hockenheim was used for the first time . |
| 20 | Within a few days of his election , Barbarossa was crowned on the 9th March 1152 . |
| 21 | Erm operating profit therefore down eleven percent , that 's er the ongoing businesses plus of course the impact of the erm er the sale of er Elsevere are holding in the first erm up to ten weeks of ninety one . |
| 22 | The first Abba/E systems running under Unitree are expected by the fourth quarter of 1993 . |
| 23 | The first Abba/E systems running under Unitree are expected by the fourth quarter of 1993 . |
| 24 | Irish History in the Later Modern Period and the Politics of Modern Ireland are studied in the second year . |
| 25 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 26 | The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests . |
| 27 | The great abbeys established as a thank-offering by the victorious Normans were complemented over the next four hundred years by a number of smaller foundations , dictated by the tenets of fashion and individual piety . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Dundela and Donegal Celtic were paired in the second round of the Steel and Sons Cup when the draw was made on Monday evening . |
| 29 | Ivan 's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans . |
| 30 | The standard rate of SSP is frozen for the second successive year at £52.50 a week . |