Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is still some disadvantage for the acquirer because it is more difficult to gain agreement to a change made subsequently than to a provision included in the first draft . |
| 2 | You must not worry too much if she seems a bit depressed during the first few months , instead of being a ‘ sweet and grateful granny ’ . |
| 3 | The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers . |
| 4 | Development revenue was expected to be almost Rps10,400,000 million , including programme aid of Rps1,500,000 million and project aid of Rps8,900,000 million — representing a reduction compared with the last budget . |
| 5 | So , a text containing a first person narrative by a narrator involved in the story claiming things about the world by indirect inferences would probably be found more to the left of the network than a text told in the third person by an omniscient narrator directly asserting claims about the world . |
| 6 | The funeral liturgy included a mass for the dead , but to take full advantage of the memorial rite , masses had also to be sung on the third , seventh and thirtieth days following burial and , to complete the calendar of commemoration , the ‘ obit ’ : a mass sung on the first anniversary of the death . |
| 7 | A very likely explanation is that it is a form of hyll = hill , found in the West Midlands and the south-west as the Middle English hull , and this in combination with the first syllable forms a byname given in the fourteenth century to a person who lived ‘ up the hill ’ . |
| 8 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 9 | Some shipowners proved particularly receptive to a suggestion that their craft employ a technique used during the Second World War by British aircraft to confuse enemy radar and later influenced by the Royal Navy 's experience in the Falklands campaign : tankers were supplied with equipment to discharge clouds of aluminium chaff at the approach of an AS missile like Exocet , in order to divert it . |
| 10 | The more that a loss of sales to the second group is compensated by a grant paid by the first , or the more the revenues for the provision of a service to individuals come from grants , the less likely is the bureau to be concerned for consumer interests and , hence , efficiency . |
| 11 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 12 | Over 1,000,000 days ' work were lost due to strikes in the first quarter of 1991 , a figure exceeded in the second quarter under the combined impact of continuing miners ' strikes and protest strikes against price increases . |
| 13 | Still in Suffolk , the sign at Debach bears a plaque dedicated to the 493rd Bomb Group , which operated B-17s from the airfield of the same name . |
| 14 | In a study conducted during the Second World War ( Stouffer et al. |
| 15 | The well was obviously ancient , the bricks of a type used in the 17th — 18th century , and standing looking into this well was quite a frightening experience . |
| 16 | Then they were a single out away from going one game up in Dodger Stadium — only for Kirk Gibson to turn the Series on its head with a home run at the last moment . |
| 17 | Despite leaving out 18-goal striker Bernie Slaven and winger Stuart Ripley , there was a prelude of better things to come when Andy Payton tested Welch with a curling shot in the 15th minute . |
| 18 | I suspect that we will find that John Major is both pro-active and reaction , because in the next few months erm up to some time before June nineteen ninety two , there has to be a manifesto produced for the next election , and I think it 's in that you will probably see the pro-active side of John Major and his colleagues . |
| 19 | He was struck by a vehicle driven by the first defendant . |
| 20 | The attack against Beaumont-Hamel proved abortive , and a thrust made by the Third Army against Gommecourt failed utterly . |
| 21 | Eight conspiracy theories about the killing are given considerable space in a museum housed on the sixth floor of the School Book Depository , called simply The Sixth Floor . |
| 22 | Figure 5 a compares the two independent examples of this contact by a superposition based on the first domains of molecule 1 from each pair . |
| 23 | The model is attached to a node at the origins of the reference space , with the second attached to a point set on the first . |
| 24 | Remembering how often she had bought skin care products and abandoned them she thought of the collection of half used jars and tubes in her dressing table drawer and came up this headline : " Our creams and lotions are all used up " with the striking visual of a tube squeezed to the last drop . |
| 25 | The first letting tax , as its name implies , was a tax levied on the first letting of shops , offices , or industrial premises . |
| 26 | Experience convinced her that the man who was drunk would lecture them on the futility of dying , a theme prompted by the first mention of hospices . |
| 27 | And yet an remarkable 50 people applied for the recent job at Wigan Athletic a team relegated to the Third Division last season and with five of their best players out of contract . |
| 28 | I have a room booked for the thirtieth of July and I 'd like a word with the manager . |
| 29 | Portsmouth soon equalised and a stalemate followed in the second half , although Alton had some good chances . |
| 30 | This year many followers of Hardy will no doubt have been tempted , as a tribute linked with the 150th anniversary of the novelist 's birth , to visit his cottage at Higher Bockhampton in Dorset . |