Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] its [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 2 | A female , instead of manufacturing the maximum number of eggs that can be created from her bodily reserves , may produce rather fewer but give each one a better chance of survival by supplying it with food in some way , so that it is sustained during its first difficult days . |
| 3 | At the McDermott-Scotland yard at Ardersier , near Inverness , 40 workers are to go after its last job , a jacket for Amerada Hess 's Scott oilfield , was shipped out on Tuesday . |
| 4 | COMECON : The nine-member Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) was formally dissolved following its 46th session in Budapest on June 28 ; a liquidation committee was given 90 days to oversee the organization 's dissolution . |
| 5 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 6 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 7 | The poll tax ( a.k.a. the community charge ) has been discredited by almost all politicians , even Darlington 's Conservative MP Michael Fallon , but for administrative and bureaucratic reasons it lumbers into its third year this April . |
| 8 | The baroque curlicue I have added to this criterion lies in its last words . |
| 9 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 10 | SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade . |
| 11 | Whilst the government claimed in its first consultation paper on the National Curriculum that it wished to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum for ‘ all pupils ’ , pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities were not specifically mentioned ( DES 1987 ) . |
| 12 | In Latin America , in North and South Africa , in some parts of Asia , and in the Australasian colonies , there had been tentative beginnings to railway-building in the middle of the century , but the great explosion of lines was not to come until its last decade . |
| 13 | Colour had crept unsteadily on to It 's pages , and the paper reported in its second birthday issue that ‘ hopes of a permanent 24-page It have had to be tempered with reality otherwise we would find ourselves expanding into debt . ’ |
| 14 | It also ordered that the cases of all remaining political prisoners should be considered before its next meeting . |
| 15 | Next weekend in Budapest , Attalli will tell the EBRD 's 45 members how this ambititious enterprise has fared in its first year of business . |
| 16 | He had already edited several popular movie magazines , but it was because of Bazin 's reputation as a theoretician that this new one , more highbrow , attracted from its first publication in 1951 a group of young , enthusiastic and iconoclastic critics . |
| 17 | Little can be made of this , although the biographer of Edward the Confessor speaks of Danes preparing to rebel against Cnut early in his reign , and Henry of Huntingdon thought that an English and Danish attack on the Wandali ( the Wends , the Slav peoples on the southern shores of the Baltic ) occurred in its third year . |
| 18 | Assuming that the Congress , which has wasted so much time so far , does not get round to final approval of any of the versions of the constitution , Mr Yeltsin could either wait until its next scheduled meeting in the autumn , seeking a compromise with parliament . |
| 19 | Cortex Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co have signed a joint marketing and development pact that will see Cortex' CorVision application development tool , previously available only on VAXes , moved to its first Unix environment HP-UX on an HP 9000 Series 800 server : CorVision will be encapsulated so it runs with HP SoftBench Framework ; availability is expected this year . |
| 20 | And the outcome of that that that review will be reported to its next meeting on the eighth of February . |
| 21 | Officials at Faro Airport said the three-engined plane crashed on its second attempt to land in heavy rain and crosswinds of up to 40mph . |
| 22 | The typical monthly or quarterly report has on its first page a list of problems , that is , the areas where results fall short of expectations . |
| 23 | Niyazov had been leader of the republican Communist Party until it was dissolved at its 25th Congress on Dec. 16 , 1991 , and then became leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Turkmenistan . |
| 24 | The question of a regional convention in this whole field was put on the agenda of the Committee in 1975 and detailed reports were considered at its Twentieth Session in 1979 and its Twenty-Second Session in 1981 . |
| 25 | It is therefore worth checking the position(s) adjacent to that in which a start of compound occurs for its next element , until the end of the compound ( or phrase ) is reached , or until the next element is not found . |
| 26 | In July last year came the news that the WRVS was looking for its first chief executive . |
| 27 | The National Assembly of People 's Power , the nominal Cuban parliament , meeting for its ninth ordinary session on Dec. 26-27 , approved the political reforms suggested by the fourth congress of the Cuban Communist Party ( PCC ) held in October [ see pp. 38523-24 ] . |
| 28 | The letter , and the reactions to it , confirmed that the CPSU was afflicted with deep factional divisions as it prepared for its 28th congress in July , and that an imminent party split was a very real prospect . |
| 29 | The Doric Club met for its ninth annual lunch on Tuesday , 8 September . |
| 30 | The 12th People 's Great Hural , members of which had been elected in the country 's first multiparty elections held in July [ see p. 37656 ] , met for its first session on Sept. 3-11 . |