Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From these summarized findings it is possible to derive tentative profiles of the activities of the first three teams . |
| 2 | The senders of the first six cards out of the back pocket on March 15 will be the winners . |
| 3 | The senders of the first six correct entries attended a cookery course run by the book 's two authors , and , at Leith 's School of Food and Wine . |
| 4 | Closing date is Wednesday , August 12 , and the prizes will go to the senders of the first two correct entries drawn . |
| 5 | The senders of the first five correct entries drawn on that day will each win a copy of the book . |
| 6 | The senders of the first five correct puzzles opened next Friday will each be sent a copy of the book . |
| 7 | As a final bonus , the senders of the first 500 entries received each month will be sent a 50p money-off voucher redeemable against any future purchase of Guinness Original . |
| 8 | The senders of the first 500 correct entries picked out the hat on that date will become Tizer Club members and get their super Tizer Club kits . |
| 9 | The senders of the first three questionnaires pulled out of the postbag will each win a Delight personal diet analysis and healthy eating programme . |
| 10 | So to while away those lonely winter nights , we 've arranged ( with Virgin Vision ) for 90-minute videos of red Ben live in action to go to the senders of the first 20 correct entries . |
| 11 | So to while away those lonely winter nights , we 've arranged ( with Virgin Vision ) for 90-minute videos of red Ben live in action to go to the senders of the first 20 correct entries . |
| 12 | The 20 foot roof above our heads provided perfect shelter for all eventualities , so we decided to share our last scraps of food in another bivouac after fixing the ropes on the first two pitches above the terrace . |
| 13 | Yeah , I think in the end it was fifty thousand that we did , which is going to go out with all the mailings over the next few weeks . |
| 14 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
| 15 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |
| 16 | I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors . |
| 17 | At the same time Russia and Eastern Europe are discarding the shackles of the last 40-odd years . |
| 18 | These programmes were identified by the government ( HMSO , 1977 ) as central to urban regenerative strategies , but neither programme was redirected successfully towards the cities in the last few years of the 1974–9 Labour administration . |
| 19 | It has been argued that in Britain , on every major social issue that has come before the courts during the last thirty years , the judges have supported ‘ the conventional , established and settled interest [ and ] have reacted strongly against challenges to those interests ’ ( Griffith , 1991 , p. 325 ) . |
| 20 | In addition , both these areas of law have been the subjects of close scrutiny by the courts over the last few years . |
| 21 | Part or all of the aedeagus is held by some authors to be of a secondary , non-appendicular nature but others consider it to be formed by the division of the gonapophyses of the 9th abdominal segment , the two median halves fusing during development to form the penis while the lateral halves constitute the parameres . |
| 22 | Again , the proposals of the Next Five Years Group anticipated many of the developments of the 1940s , such as a National Development Board , greater public investment in housing , the co-ordination of social services to achieve a ‘ National Minimum ’ , the expansion of secondary education , and town and country planning . |
| 23 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 24 | In the remainder of the cases in the first two teams , either no service was offered , service was declined by the client , or the assessment was preempted in some way ( for example , by the client entering hospital ) . |
| 25 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
| 26 | Early candidates for this treatment among industrial buildings , and prior to the enthusiasms of the last twenty years . |
| 27 | Right then I take it the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting haven been circulated already ? |
| 28 | The minutes of the last Annual General Meeting were approved and signed by Miss Molly Braithwaite , M.B.E. , M.A. ( President of the Society ) . |
| 29 | Western human rights groups claimed that as many as 2,000 people had been executed by the authorities during the last six months of martial law , and many more were being held in detention . |
| 30 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |