Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 2 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 3 | Western drug enforcement agents are trying to persuade the Bhutto government to enter , but such a move threatens to spill the first blood of Benazir 's fledgling democracy . |
| 4 | By contrast , anyone looking at the record of a computer attack would think it had been managed by a sadist wishing to extract the last possible drop of pain our of the victory . |
| 5 | Writing in a report published to mark the 20th anniversary , Mostafa Tolba , the organization 's secretary-general since 1975 , complains that apathy about the condition of the environment persists and that there is a lack of political will to tackle serious environmental problems , despite the growth of awareness among the general public . |
| 6 | On 6 June 1991 , the third party issued a summons seeking to have the third party notice struck out . |