Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King , in his capacity as Colonel-in-Chief of 1st Battalion The Green Howards ( Alexandra , Princess of Wales 's Own Yorkshire Regiment ) , was paying a visit to present new Colours upon the occasion of the regiment 's tercentenary celebrations . |
| 2 | In addition , Brusilov eschewed the current strategy of first pounding the enemy with prolonged artillery fire . |
| 3 | In April of next year the council tax , the ‘ fairer ’ system of local funding will come into force . |
| 4 | By the middle of next year the bank will move its head office into Poultry , and take on the heavy mantle of tradition . |
| 5 | But unless there s a change of plan , by the summer of next year the base will effectively be deserted . |
| 6 | At Darthea Speyer until the end of next month the recent drawings of Lionel Guibout are on show . |
| 7 | In the middle of last century the average age at which a woman 's family was completed was 39 ; it is now the late 20s ( Finch 1989 ) . |
| 8 | SEWERS : At the end of last year the House of Lords ' select committee on science and technology reported on the state of Britain 's water industry . |
| 9 | Of the £50 million that the act set aside , by the middle of last year the government had allocated only about £10 million . |
| 10 | In May of last year the organisers signed 30 bands and hired a 100 seat ship and floated it down the Volga River , the largest in European Russia , holding 10 open-air concerts in big cities along the way . |
| 11 | At the end of last year the national average wage in the manufacturing industries would give you , for two fifths , one hundred and fourteen pounds . |
| 12 | Therefore , like him , I rejoice in the fact that in the last three months of last year the motor car industry earned a surplus on the balance of payments , and exports of motor cars rose by 55 per cent . |
| 13 | Following the charity event of last year The Rainforest Ball ( which was attended by so many of the titled upper classes that it was unofficially known as Toff Aid ) , attention is now focused on the Altamura Forest , Italy , the proposed site of a hydroelectric dam . |
| 14 | At the end of last month the company launched a commercial version of the chip . |
| 15 | AT the end of last month the University received the first information from the UFC on its recurrent grant and funded student numbers for 1992/93 . |
| 16 | Although MTM 's shares rallied at the start of last week the publication by UBS Philips & Drew of an in-depth report on the state of the company 's finances started them on a downward slide again . |
| 17 | Throughout last year the salerooms saw an increase in educated private buyers checking on condition and provenance , and shunning paintings consigned by the trade . |
| 18 | Moving into first gear the knob came off in her hand again . |
| 19 | Above Twenty-third Street the buildings began to thin out . |
| 20 | Before first light the castle was bustling . |
| 21 | She was in first thing , I mean I sent it off that evening she was in first thing the next morning yes that 's fine . |
| 22 | At that speed in first gear the revs went through the roof and the car coasted to a halt . |
| 23 | In first gear the rear Michelin breaks traction immediately . |
| 24 | From next year the potato will be removed from the recommended list of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge . |
| 25 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 26 | From next season the league will be known as the FA Carling Premier League . |
| 27 | From next week the normal Wednesday meeting will be moved to Thursday , with the Monday and Saturday racenights staying the same . |
| 28 | In third place the most successful jockey in the history of national hunt racing Peter Scudimore . |
| 29 | Until last year the accounting systems were largely used as a means of record , not for planning . |
| 30 | Until last year the Yellow Swordtail was thought to occur only at its type locality in the headwaters of the Rio Sarabia , to the west of the town of Sarabia . |