Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 2 | The mayorazgos had been bitterly criticized since the sixteenth century for encouraging laziness as well as being an injustice to younger children . |
| 3 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 4 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 5 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 7 | The crumple-faced star — known for his love of the good life — once said : ‘ I 'd rather stay in the second line . |
| 8 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 9 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 10 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 11 | Was her voice loud enough to carry to the next table ? |
| 12 | Much depended in the last resort , too , on the power with which the negotiators went to the negotiating table , what goodwill there was between parties and what the strength of the bargaining power was . |
| 13 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 14 | Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing . |
| 15 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 16 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 17 | On Jan. 7 the Iraqi Health Minister Umid Midhat Mubarak said that 85,942 Iraqis , including 27,473 children under five [ not 80,000 as wrongly given in the first paragraph of the article on p. 38696 ] , had died due to medical shortages . |
| 18 | number for Malcolm Smith , secretary of N.E.B.E. , was wrongly given in the last issue . |
| 19 | Now , I think there 's probably a very nice parallel here , I ca n't help thinking it was probably a bit better , must have been better organised in the Second World War , but there 's going to be a erm special exhibition here is n't there , on memories of change on Oxford in the Second World War , and of course there were a great many extra people there too . |
| 20 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 21 | ‘ But we were all so stupidly purist then , which obviously changed over the next couple of years , with Peter writing material like Man Of The World and Albatross . |
| 22 | But their spirit had entirely vanished by the Second World War . |
| 23 | With the Jenny Pitman horses in such tremendous form at the moment , MOSSGARA ( 2.15 ) must be greatly respected in the second division of the Knight Park Novices Hurdle . |
| 24 | Amateur Champion Stephen Dundas was only named as the first reserve … |
| 25 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 26 | But as you 've got a long wait for the next production , let's move on to the town itself . |
| 27 | So welcome to the first edition of CCG People , which we hope will tell you all you need to know about the people that make CCG such a success . |
| 28 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 29 | The Herdwick sheep , who withstand wind and weather on the fells with their ‘ heafing ’ property of returning to base , were not so named until the 18th Century , the name ‘ Herdwyke ’ previously referring to the abbey sheep farms . |
| 30 | To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote . |