Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Displaced first from the North East/South West corridor and East Coast services , they had largely disappeared from their traditional Midland main line haunts by the mid-1980s , and the arrival of Class 156 Sprinter DMUs displaced the last survivors from Trans-Pennine workings in the summer of 1988 . |
| 2 | Eventually , in 1921 Marie Stopes opened the first birth control clinic . |
| 3 | On July 15-17 Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli President to visit Turkey . |
| 4 | Once the first diver is stable , on a three man bell run the second diver does the same . |
| 5 | When the 1981 Companies Act implemented the Fourth EC Company Law Directive , it was not generally recognised how the nature of financial reporting would be affected . |
| 6 | The ten day celebrations commemorating the 150th anniversary of railways arriving in Taunton went very well over the final weekend with a feast of motive power seen on the West Somerset Railway . |
| 7 | The 25 ft statue marking the 40th anniversary of the People 's Republic of China is an altogether different creature from its smashed predecessor . |
| 8 | Earlier this month the under-16 soccer team reached the last 32 of the All England and Wales Schoolboys competition , playing on the same Bamber Bridge pitch visited by Mr Calvin . |
| 9 | In 1934 Eric Dillon became the 19th Viscount Dillon . |
| 10 | WORLD No 1 Dennis Priestley reached the last 64 of the British Open darts last night but former world champions Bob Anderson and Keith Deller both lost in the third round . |
| 11 | World number one Pete Sampras reached the second round with the loss of one set against potentially dangerous clay-courter Andrei Cherkasov of Russia . |
| 12 | On July 16 François Mitterrand became the first French President to attend the annual service held to commemorate the arrest and detention in 1942 of 12,884 Jews in the " Vel " d'Hiv " " cycling stadium in Paris . |
| 13 | On Feb. 27 de Posadas announced the third " and most severe " stage in the fiscal readjustment programme . |
| 14 | Last year one Middlesex student became the first to submit a postgraduate thesis as a video cassette tape . |
| 15 | On 20 June 1961 Pope John addressed the first meeting of the central commission . |
| 16 | On June 13 Theo Mitchell became the first black politician to win a major party nomination for a statewide office in South Carolina when he secured the Democratic gubernatorial nomination with 59 per cent of the vote ; Mitchell was to face Republican incumbent Carroll Campbell . |
| 17 | In foreign affairs East-West détente had revived after the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and in September 1987 Erich Honecker made the first visit by an East German head of state to West Germany . |
| 18 | British movements in that direction were verified , and on 9 September Bülow ordered the Second Army to withdraw . |
| 19 | Ministers from 15 member countries attending the third Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) conference in Seoul on Nov. 12-14 issued a declaration at the close of the talks which set out the direction and role for APEC as " an exemplary model of open regional co-operation " , and agreed to co-operate to reduce trade barriers both within the region and worldwide , and to identify and promote the region 's interests . |
| 20 | In 1939 PAN AM launched the first transatlantic airline service on Yankee Clipper , a Boeing 314 flying boat with all mod cons — even sleeping berths and a bridal suite . |
| 21 | In 1983 Sheila Keech became the first British woman to receive a WFD medal of honour for services to the deaf . |
| 22 | Their opponents tomorrow will be Spain , the second seeds , who overwhelmed the Soviet Union in the two singles matches to reach the last four . |
| 23 | Recorded not long after a live cycle at the 1974 Aix-en-Provence Festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of the composer 's death , these are wide-ranging , run-in performances that completely escape the contrivance and routine that can so often creep into such extensive complete surveys . |
| 24 | A FOUR PAGE FEATURE TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC |
| 25 | On the death of his father in 1945 Lord Cranley became the 6th Earl of Onslow . |
| 26 | In 1555 Primož Trubar made the first translation of the New Testament into Slovene and in 1584 a Slovene grammar was produced . |
| 27 | On 24 June Edward won the first notable victory of the war in the naval battle fought off Sluys ( Fr L'Ecluse ) at the mouth of the river Zwyn , at which a larger French fleet was decimated by superior English tactics and the better use of prevailing conditions . |