Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Regarding the Nationalists as the lesser of two evils he joined with them to resist Japanese encroachments .
2 I would be fed into the police computer , where it would join the details already stored by the hundreds of other crossings we had made .
3 Tonight , in the second of two reports we look at work being done to prevent the spread of Aids and the hopes for a medical breakthrough .
4 After the second of these excursions he came back to Marian 's side with : ‘ Is it not time that we took a look into this sack ? ’
5 One of the strangest of these rituals we were to witness only by chance .
6 Taking the smallest of these values we could find the value of R5 that will produce a current of 93µA to the base of TR2 .
7 The more of these questions you can anticipate the better , but there will always be surprises .
8 And if it did happen , your physical health could be just the first of many things you lose , that you take for granted now .
9 ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again .
10 Her visit to the Association 's headquarters in Carlisle in November 1983 was the first of many engagements she has undertaken on behalf of the BDA in later years .
11 Just 4kms from the resort is the first of many places you just ‘ have ’ to see the Varone waterfalls .
12 The first of two holidays they spent together was on a cruise ship , the SS Romantica which took them to the Greek Islands .
13 It 's the first of those pages I would direct you
14 That is the first of three tasks he had been picked to do to pave the way for Italy 's first post-reform elections .
15 A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road .
16 In the first of three parts we look back at the working life of country people featured in ’ Twenty-Four Square Miles ’
17 He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year .
18 I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last .
19 It was the fifth of those lectures he gave from 1769 to 1790 , known as his fifteen discourses .
20 It 's the same with most women I said , and it 's all paper talk .
21 This can be restored by collecting litter , but even on the fastest of three levels it should n't be a problem .
22 One of the 20 to 2,000 facts you and I did n't know about Quisling which are in this book is that he was a lifelong bigamist .
23 I do n't suppose he remembers her name now , any more than he remembers the names of the dozens of other women he seduced during the ten years of our marriage .
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