Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Art Master , Mr. J.T. Stanley , had led archaeological digs to Bakewell for the Sixth Form and organized his first foreign visit to the Pyrenees . |
| 2 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 3 | Dave meets Andy for the first time and says ‘ Nice to meet you . ’ |
| 4 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 5 | Heka-ib was governor of Elephantine in the sixth Dynasty and was buried in a rock tomb at Kubbet el-Hawa at Aswan . |
| 6 | In an aggressive encounter , there were bookings for Stoke 's Carl Beeston in the 16th minute and Mark Stein and Chris Sulley for a 35th-minute flare-up . |
| 7 | Billy Row Workmens beat Belle Vue WMC in the second semi-final and eventually succumbed to Bishop Auckland in the final . |
| 8 | I got Toby on the second ring and explained Sally 's suggestion . |
| 9 | If you were to fly to Athens for the first time and take a taxi to an address in the city , you would be unable to assess whether the route was circuitous , or the baggage charge was normal . |
| 10 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 11 | Madrid , level with Barcelona before the weekend but with an inferior goal difference , took a 2-1 lead over Logrones in the 88th minute and seemed certain winners . |
| 12 | On my return home I discovered that the plant that I had thought was a weed was in fact ‘ The Marvel of Peru ’ , first brought from Peru to Spain in the sixteenth century and John Gerard used to lift the roots in autumn and keep them in a butter firkin filled with sand . |
| 13 | That led to the Royal arms we know today — England or Scotland in the first and fourth quarters , Ireland in the third quarter and Scotland or England in the second . |
| 14 | ‘ I was in the lead at Carrowdore Village on the last lap and I thought that Joey could n't possibly catch me . |
| 15 | But he cancelled his trip to England at the last minute and pretended he thought I was going to see you in your show and might as well hand you the invitation at the same time . ’ |
| 16 | Arsenal had no option but to take the attack to Oldham in the second half and Rhodes had to save from Thomas , Dixon and Quinn , but when a magnificent ball by Bunn sent Milligan streaking for goal he was hauled back by O'Leary , who was booked . |
| 17 | Half time — Malone 0 Greystones 8 Adrian Bush came on for Willis in the second half and made an immediate impact with a 40 second minute penalty and then a splendid forty metre touch clearance . |
| 18 | It was restored in Gothic manner under the Emperor Franz Josef in the nineteenth century and once more used as a coronation church . |
| 19 | If a Bill is passed by the Commons in two successive sessions having been rejected by the Lords , it can be presented for the Royal Assent provided that one year has elapsed between the date of its second reading in the Commons in the first session and the date of its passing by the Commons in the second session . |
| 20 | Dicey felt able to boil the British constitution down to " one essential principle " : " obedience by all persons to the deliberately expressed will of the House of Commons in the first instance and ultimately to the will of the nation as expressed through Parliament . " |
| 21 | He replaced Fitzroy Simpson with former Shrewsbury striker Carl Griffiths who created City 's first goal for Mike Sheron in the 54th minute and then scored his first Premier goal six minutes later after a suicidal back headewr by Leeds defender Chris Fairclough . |
| 22 | This seems to have been not quite the case , though one of his ancestors did emigrate to Canada in the seventeenth century and become a beaver-trapper . |
| 23 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 24 | He only broke clear of Japan 's Koichi Morishita in the last mile and won in 2 hrs , 13 mins 23 secs . |
| 25 | We have done well in our provincial fixtures , with notable exceptions against the Maoris in the first half and in the defeat by Otago . |
| 26 | These amazing horns were neither described , illustrated nor found in skeletal remains in the UK before the eighteenth century and there is a theory that they resulted from Bakewell 's intensive inbreeding methods . |
| 27 | Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania had been conquered from Sweden in the eighteenth century and incorporated as ‘ Baltic provinces ’ into the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century , although a German landowning and commercial class retained substantial influence . |
| 28 | The winners have Grimsby in the next round and that 's a good draw . |
| 29 | Taylor pulled off a great stop from Dave Gilbert in the 36th minute and two minutes later made the save of the match to tip over Tony Rees 's header . |
| 30 | The copper rivets have been capped with silver by diffusion , a technique ‘ discovered ’ at Sheffield in the mid-eighteenth century and used in the manufacture of Sheffield Plate . |