Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Daltons became the second husband and wife team in the Commons , but three months later he came North to bag the seat for himself . |
| 2 | Nobody is claiming that the Brooklands offers the last word in performance , fuel economy , space efficiency , silence or ergonomic excellence . |
| 3 | A rhythmic motive from the Symphonie generates the next movement , an air still in the tonic in which word-stress and musical rhythm are ( deliberately ? ) out of kilter ( ex.12 ) . |
| 4 | The CKR named the third party creditor as consignee and the buyer as notify party ; no other parties participated in the transaction . |
| 5 | It was difficult to reach an agreed policy and the CDP was now waiting for the CNAA to make the next move' . |
| 6 | Michel Laclotte 's farewell show as director of the Louvre includes the first sight of its eight newly cleaned Titians |
| 7 | Nottingham Forest agreed to sign the transfer form which makes the England star the first summer addition to Graeme Souness ' squad . |
| 8 | In the autumn of 1929 the USSR became the first state to break the illusions created by the Kellogg-Briand pact by unleashing its Special Far Eastern Army upon the Manchurian nationalists , who rashly thought they could put an end to Soviet control of the Chinese Eastern Railway . |
| 9 | The Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly ( Zeta ) started working at Harwell in August 1957 , just before the USSR launched the first Sputnik . |
| 10 | Disaster struck as Birdseye — white bearded , pipe-smoking Jack Lammiman — sailed the Atlantic to mark the 500th anniversary of Columbus 's voyage of discovery . |
| 11 | In the same area , tribes such as the Zuni and the Hopi built the first apartment houses in the USA . |
| 12 | At the beginning of December the IMF released the third tranche , worth US$240 million , of a $1,400 million standby loan agreed in November 1989 [ see pp. 37040 ; 37244 ; 37451 ] . |
| 13 | The RIBA celebrated the tenth anniversary of the International Student Competition in September and A Decade of RIBA Student Competitions was published to coincide with this event . |
| 14 | The Shah celebrates the 25th centenary of the founding of the Persian Empire with an orgy of conspicuous consumption . |
| 15 | You will be aware that last year the IBOA celebrated the 75th Anniversary of its establishment in 1917 . |
| 16 | Though France is the primary target when the US hits the first $300 million worth of exports in December — America believes that they are behind the EC 's ‘ stubbornness ’ — Britain is next in the firing line . |
| 17 | Nynex of the US holds the second New York cellular radio licence . |
| 18 | Charles Sweeny 's influence and financial backing behind the formation of the Eagle Squadron from American pilots before the US entered the Second World War , was recognised for posterity in 1986 . |
| 19 | Candidates for the BSc(Nursing) spend the third year of their four-year course in clinical practice in hospital . |
| 20 | However , this attempt to once more equate opposition to their policies with criminality , and hence deflect attention from the real issues , was thwarted somewhat by the Strangeways riot the next day . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the Mondeo becomes the first Ford to use a new electronically-controlled four-speed automatic transmission system . |
| 22 | The IRA apologised the next day . |