Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Peyton has the right to stick to his guns and he 's disinclined to give in after the majority he won last time . |
| 2 | It was felt that the Stand we had last year was well worthwhile . |
| 3 | In the vote on the NUM motion three factors helped to tip the balance in favour of the Labour leadership : the NUM lacked the support it commanded last month at Blackpool from Nalgo , the local government officers ' union , since the latter is not affiliated to the party ; the pro-nuclear EETPU , absent from Blackpool since its expulsion from the TUC , cast its votes in favour of the leadership 's stance ; and Ucatt , the construction union , previously in favour of the 15-year deadline , has recently withdrawn its opposition to the policy review plan . |
| 4 | President Richard von Weizsäcker , often able to set the tone , has been unusually reticent since the storm he created last year by urging that the government should move from Bonn to Berlin ( an issue that remains undecided ) . |
| 5 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
| 6 | This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same . |
| 7 | However , USL finds the royalties it pays third parties for using their technology , particularly those sent to Microsoft Corp for its Xenix functionality and Sun Microsystems Inc for its BSD functionality , on the increase and likely to rise further . |
| 8 | Is the any to compare the the entries we have this year with the entries we got last year . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the indefatigable Joanna Castle is taking yet another group of children around part of her downlands on the Ridgeway , where the calves they met last year are now only a year away from being next year 's Sunday roast |
| 10 | The French government also announced that it would pay more than £5 million compensation to French fishermen for half the losses they reported last month as a result of falling prices . |
| 11 | ‘ Didya read the script I brought last week ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ So the wills we made last week are irrelevant . ’ |
| 13 | All the examples continue the work we began last month by featuring double stops that have been derived from chords . |
| 14 | For a long time it looked as if Newcastle were going to leave with the three points they so desperately needed and it was the visitors who drew first blood . |
| 15 | Could it be that his wife Elizabeth , who was secretary of labour until three months ago , wanted another push in the campaign she launched last May ? |
| 16 | Wake , junior ABA champion and defending his schools title against the boy he beat last year , Roger Campbell , of Hampshire , found it hard going against a shorter but stockier opponent and had to survive being hurt in a tough second round before being given a majority decision . |
| 17 | Erm Alexandro , the bloke who lived next door |
| 18 | That 's the question we asked last week , well because they 're chairman of the board . |
| 19 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 20 | A MOTHER 'S instinct told Ada Hutchinson her son had been involved in a road accident the moment she heard first radio reports about the smash one Sunday morning . |
| 21 | They yesterday found out which rating band their homes were in for the tax which starts next April . |
| 22 | Erm the team we beat last week |
| 23 | Now for another session of free sailing — filling in the places you missed first time . |
| 24 | I find a little difficulty in understanding the basis of your argument Mr , given the point you made last week about the need for Yo North Yorkshire as a whole to cater for one hundred percent migration , so as to make adequate provision for those coming from Leeds . |
| 25 | The desire of the Cambridge Boat Club to win this year began the evening they lost last year . |
| 26 | ‘ So the behaviour you described last time — following Susie 's movements , going through her things — is your way of trying to make her stay ? ’ asked the counsellor . |
| 27 | 1 choose one of the stories you told last time . |
| 28 | In the middle of the night he had second thoughts and put on his clothes over his pyjamas . |
| 29 | I reminded her about the things she said last night — the things you apparently overheard , so you say — and she now realises she was quite wrong to say those things , even if they were supposed to be some kind of joke … and … she is sorry for saying them because she now understands that those careless words of hers were what basically caused the misunderstanding . ’ |
| 30 | The £50,000 it raised last year will help to pay for a researcher at the Department of Cancer Studies at Birmingham University . |