Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 And Kylie , after two years travelling the world and using England as a base realises for the first time , this really is a home from home .
2 As a programmer struggles over the fifth tedious revision of a 25-word frame , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that if he had worked this hard on every sentence of the textbooks he had written , these textbooks would probably teach as well as programmes …
3 In Germany a child proceeds to the next year only when he has achieved a satisfactory standard in every subject of the curriculum .
4 This certainly means that Adam 's heirs can not be alone in having a right to private property , but in saying this , it does not explain how such a right arises in the first place .
5 There is a period of training in which joint reporting by a consultant and a registrar occurs for the first 50 studies .
6 This is when a phrase finishes on the second ( or weak ) and not on the first or third beat of a final bar .
7 ‘ Whatever a man remembers at the last , when he is leaving the body , will be realised by him hereafter ; because that will be what his mind constantly dwelt on during his life . ’
8 Meanwhile , the search for a star continues with the second heat on Monday , March 9 .
9 I suppose a lot depends on the next few games though
10 ALMOST a year remains before the 200th anniversary of Mozart 's death on December 5th .
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