Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a military precision about the grounds and gardens — this avenue , once lined with Dutch Elm lies to the north of the house … where a statue of the first duke overlooks his home — to the south , there was once what was called the military parterre garden — a formal gardens made up of box hedges and gravel walks — now long gone . |
| 2 | Where a plaintiff in the first instance desires to have an account taken , the particulars must state the amount which the plaintiff claims subject to the taking of the account , and if no such amount is stated , the plaintiff will be deemed to claim £5,000 ( Ord 6 , r 2 ) . |
| 3 | For it neatly encapsulates the state of public morale in Britain less than a year into the fourth consecutive Conservative term . |
| 4 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 5 | With less than a minute of the second half played Cork again jumped into the lead with a Thomas Mulcahy goal but Wexford replied immediately and led for the first time when Eamonn Cleary had their only goal in the 37th minute . |
| 6 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
| 7 | Equally , a feminist who left a meeting , went home and jumped into bed with hubbie or boyfriend , was no better than a member of the fifth column . |
| 8 | A number of these correspondents , Gorbachev reported , had in fact suggested that the new text be considered an entirely new fourth Party Programme , rather than a revision of the third , because the changes it proposed were so far-reaching . |
| 9 | Well , for a little while there was n't a movement , until a man in the third row from the front stepped forward . |
| 10 | If a government in the Third World wants to meet the energy needs of its people without destroying the environment or creating human misery , it has to adopt an integrated national policy on energy for cooking . |
| 11 | Since an examination of the first of these is the purpose of the following chapters , and an examination of the third impossible because , as suggested , of lack of evidence , one need turn here only to an examination of the second class . |
| 12 | He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall . |
| 13 | The Tockington example has been described , already , as a mosaic of the second quarter of the fourth century , perhaps of c. 340 . |
| 14 | The kid steps in and Ali stabs him with a well-timed jab that 's as sweet as a bite from the last tangy apple of autumn . |
| 15 | The next year , as a lieutenant in the 54th Battalion in France , he won an MC and was severely wounded by machine-gun fire , which left him with a lifetime limp . |
| 16 | If nothing else , such instruments would assured of a place as a prop in the next round of Trantec Systems adverts ! |
| 17 | The Report 's recommendations were approved in principle by the European Community ( EC ) in 1971 and , as a prelude to the first stage , central banks were invited to restrict fluctuations in their currencies around the existing par values . |
| 18 | This is quite important because when a child in the third form the kids are making up their mind whether to do science or not . |
| 19 | When a patrol of the Second Field Regiment , the Royal Artillery , arrived at the scene they found nothing . |