Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CO took the next trip , to Nordhausen on April 4 , but on this occasion carried an eighth crew member who acted as a second pilot . |
| 2 | Telecine now gets the direction to run the first piece of 16mm film — the familiar opening graphics sequence together with the sound-on-film theme music . |
| 3 | In the chaos following the Second World War the travel agent had some extraordinary assignments . |
| 4 | The case marked the first use of the Organized Crime Control Act of New York State in connection with fraud on Wall Street 's financial markets . |
| 5 | Confusion reigned as the field reached the second flight which had been mistakenly dolled off . |
| 6 | If such an advance is realized , it represents one more step in a progression in which the antidiscipline , that is , the field treating the next level of organization below the one under scrutiny , is partly replaced by the synthetic enterprise to which it gave rigour and impetus ( Wilson , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ The decision to convene the 9th emergency Congress of People 's Deputies , taken hastily and practically without any discussion , brings the country to a new level of political tensions , ’ his spokesman said . |
| 8 | As time was a most critical factor , No 4 Ferry Pool pilots at Prestwick , who had been advised of the conditions to be expected , were informed of the decision to ferry the first aircraft to Abbotsinch . |
| 9 | The provision of a Frontier Station at Kensington Olympia , and the decision to site the second London terminal at King 's Cross are also of benefit . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , as he began to recover from his operation , Mr Honecker clearly had to face the problem of the embassy refugees and the mass emigration , and the decision to let the first batch go was obviously his . |
| 11 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 12 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 13 | The decision to postpone the Second Front , first to 1843 and then to 1944 , was deeply displeasing to the Russians , who felt they were being left to bear the brunt of the fighting against Germany . |
| 14 | SCOTTISH companies should benefit from the decision to host the ninth Europartenariat in Glasgow later this year , Allan Stewart , the Scottish industry minister , said yesterday . |
| 15 | Between the coupon payment date and the next ex dividend date ( X ) , the bond is traded cum dividend , so that the buyer gets the next coupon payment . |
| 16 | His is the only war grave in the churchyard adjoining the 11th century church at Colleville-sur-Mer . |
| 17 | Another kind of polygyny is often found in species in which the males defend territories that are briefly visited by females for mating , after which the female leaves and the male awaits the next mate . |
| 18 | The male deceives the second female by appearing to be unpaired . |
| 19 | AT the end of last month the University received the first information from the UFC on its recurrent grant and funded student numbers for 1992/93 . |
| 20 | Four passengers were found dead , and the driver died the next morning . ’ |
| 21 | He was just out there on the Strip telling the first lady how he wants to get to know her , and the second , and hoping out loud that both of them do n't mind about the third : ‘ Because I want to get to know her , too . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State for Defence reopened a list as an exception to allow the Association to mark the fortieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty the Queen , our patron , to the throne . |
| 23 | Some organisations pay the whole cost ( especially where long distances are involved ) ; others expect the employee to pay and some state that the employee pays the first £ x and the company pays the rest . |
| 24 | June 1930 saw two Iris IIIs ( S1263 and S1264 ) flying from Plymouth to Iceland ( Reykjavik ) as part of the ceremony to mark the 1,000th anniversary of the Icelandic Parliament . |
| 25 | And this morning the musician caught the first Concorde flight back to the US to be with his pregnant wife . |
| 26 | The construct lacking the first intron hypersensitive sites was prepared by deleting a 1kb BalI-StuI fragment from the first intron of the -300bp construct . |
| 27 | Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America . |
| 28 | Then last September the Echo launched the second stage of the project , an updated disc with 161,000 articles . |
| 29 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 30 | The President declared the 64th AGM open and the National General Secretary read the notice convening the meeting . |