Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material , spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis , and led to the first attempts at gene therapy . |
| 2 | Ten years previously he had bound her husband over to good behaviour and to appear at the next sessions . |
| 3 | He looked round him , upon the desolation of the field between Bryn Glas and the river , littered and faintly heaving still with bodies and cast arms , and groaning with the last convulsions of struggle and pain . |
| 4 | The home season will have a top-level start with the South Pacific contest ( involving Auckland , Wellington , Canterbury , Fiji , New South Wales and Queensland ) and the CANZ contest ( Otago , Canada , North Harbour , North Auckland , Waikato ) in March and April , and finish with the first semi-finals and final of the National Championship . |
| 5 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |
| 6 | We think that it is now time to review past demonstrations and to decide on the next steps . |
| 7 | The Great River swept sluggishly through meads that were aflame with buttercups and dotted with the last patches of melting snow . |
| 8 | Feminism for women like me grew out of our dissatisfaction with our social lot and coincided with the first books that provided a context and a theoretical explanation for what we felt . |
| 9 | Basic number sets and simple addition are taught and practised in the first Numbers Book . |
| 10 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
| 11 | Inspect plants regularly and spray at the first signs of attack . |