Example sentences of "in the [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the rush to meet the first deadline on hours much of the spirit of the new deal has been lost . |
| 2 | In the diary covering the last four years of his life there is little mention of books , but he had brought out an edition of Aristophanes ' ‘ Plutus ’ and ‘ Clouds ’ in 1767 . |
| 3 | It was only when everyone was thinking of bed and Jean and Tina had gone off to give their respective babies their last feeds and Hilda was in the kitchen clearing the last of the dishes , that Bruce said , ‘ Would anyone like a nightcap ? ’ |
| 4 | An impressive 2-0 win over Everton left the watching Germans in no doubt that Leeds are in the mood to become the first British team to win a European tie from 3-0 down . |
| 5 | In the chaos following the Second World War the travel agent had some extraordinary assignments . |
| 6 | However , as the now-famous story purports , the evening after Nation had instructed his agent to say no to the Doctor Who offer , he and Tony Hancock had a serious disagreement , resulting in the writer catching the first train back to London the following morning , with no work , and a central heating system in his flat to pay for . |
| 7 | Since in the pizza query the last two words in the name are descriptive of the business , the Mothercare case is well in point and helpful to the reader and his client . |
| 8 | But the stark reality they have to accept , after being crushed by a vibrant Coventry side , is that they are now also-rans in the race to become the first champions of the Premier League . |
| 9 | It is almost as though each improvement in the missile stimulates the next improvement in itself , via its effect on the antidote . |
| 10 | His is the only war grave in the churchyard adjoining the 11th century church at Colleville-sur-Mer . |
| 11 | Like here , the leaves at Leighton would be turning a reddish-gold , there would be the faint smell of wood smoke , and Corbett wondered if his wife was also out in the fields enjoying the last lingering warm embrace of summer . |
| 12 | I left school one day and was out in the fields muckspreading the next . |
| 13 | Stewart McConnel and Paul Carnahan are hatching plans for a reunion in the summer to mark the fifth anniversary of your departure ! |
| 14 | Other works to be performed in the concert include the first performance of Martin Read 's soprano saxophone piece The Numbers Game , which will be performed by Alex Forsyth — the college saxophone teacher . |
| 15 | The vacuum of leadership in the family makes the second element revealed by The Scotsman surveys even more alarming . |
| 16 | This factor of material prosperity , which was already cited by Sombart ( 1906 ) at the beginning of this century as a partial explanation of the absence of any large-scale socialist movement in the US , acquired particularly great importance in the period following the Second World War , when economic growth took place more rapidly than ever before , and the question could be posed as to whether the US did not simply show to capitalist Europe the image of its own future — a future that would be characterized by a decline of the socialist movement , and indeed of all ideological revolutionary parties and movements . |
| 17 | In the twentieth century , and especially in the period following the Second World War , nationalist movements generally took the form of independence struggles against imperialist rule by European powers , or against less direct types of control which create a situation of dependency . |
| 18 | After he is wounded in this staged hunt , perhaps she could be seen to nurse him daily with iodine and mercurochrome , out of remorse , but in the process establishing the first physical contact . |
| 19 | aerial will need to be sent in very early in the morning to catch the first edition ! |
| 20 | As it stands , this operation requires three addresses , but it can be made into a two-address operation by making the source and the destination strings the same ; thus the vith entry in the table replaces the ith character in the source string . |
| 21 | The German totally overwhelmed America 's Michael Chang , 6-2 , 6-3 , 6-2 , in the final to take the first prize of $2m — but , more importantly for him , instil renewed self-confidence that the Wimbledon triumph was no fluke . |
| 22 | Recognising this problem led scholars in the area to make the first serious use of what are called longitudinal studies . |
| 23 | Recall that in 1964 the developing countries used their voting power in the UN to call the first United Nations Conference of Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) , because they had been frustrated by the rules operating in the GATT . |
| 24 | A comparison with later styles shows the way in which armour developed in the years separating the first and third ventures into the Holy Land . |