Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Photographic Society Exhibition , the pictures chosen for the 135th Annual International Open Exhibition ( until 23 Feb ) . |
| 2 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 3 | The Cowboys lost for the second time this season , going down 27–23 to the Los Angeles Rams when Aikman failed to produce a last-minute miracle . |
| 4 | But today belonged to the Buccaneers — with a final cheer as the planes left for the last time . |
| 5 | When the hounds checked for the fourth time and could no. find again no matter how the huntsman held them round , Nora and Sir George withdrew . |
| 6 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |
| 7 | The floodgates opened for the third successive year as Fiji swept all before they with a breathtaking display of almost faultless sevens despite a downpour which reduced the Hong Kong Sevens venue to a quagmire . |
| 8 | If the projected examination schedules are retained in the computer , printouts can be obtained of the examinations scheduled for the next day or week , so rendering unnecessary the use of a manual diary for the control of test schedules . |
| 9 | He carries the Staff of the Patriarchs made for the first Supreme Patriarch Volans by the warrior mage Fredrick von Tarnus after the Great War against Chaos . |
| 10 | Tony joined in the songs , where he knew the words , and then the curtains closed for the last time . |
| 11 | Chester-le-Street 's Lindsay Hardy , 15 , also won the girls race for the second year in succession , finishing 12th overall , and was surprised to beat Middlesbrough and Cleveland 's Kerry Matthew by over a minute and a half . |
| 12 | Moira Burgess , the compiler of the 1986 edition of the Directory of Authors in the Scottish Fiction Reserve , has been asked to begin work on the revisions needed for the next edition , projected for publication in the course of 1993–4 . |
| 13 | No amount of persuasion would induce her to stay with us for more than a few days before she 'd vanish again to pursue her old habits , and on New Year 's Day 1967 , the police called for the last time . |
| 14 | On the seventh of September the clouds broke for the first time , the wind subsided , and the sun came out . |
| 15 | To this end the researcher will ask specialists in the fields covered by the database to comment on the range and area of research on women and gender issues in order to establish a research agenda , and an assessment of the facilities needed for the next few years . |
| 16 | Nearly half of those registered are in the jobs market for the first time . |