Example sentences of "[pron] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no money , no pocket book or wallet , no bunch of keys , no watch , no Penknife — nothing The Inspector next examined the clothes themselves . |
| 2 | For me the flatwound third strings only last a couple of gigs , and you ca n't buy them separately , so I 'm buying a set of D'Addario Chromes … |
| 3 | ‘ Bring me the women first , ’ Implexion had said , striding into the largest tent and making it his temporary headquarters . |
| 4 | But they always gave me the choice first and put me in a dilemma , though I did n't know the meaning of the word then . |
| 5 | S three , probably if you give me the class first it 's probably easier Pete , Peter |
| 6 | Give me the file first . ’ |
| 7 | At that eighteenth-century mid-afternoon table in ‘ new ’ Slains , sat Lady Errol , Charles Boyd — Lord Errol 's brother whom the visitors first mistook to be the earl — and some of the Errol children with their tutor and governess . |
| 8 | The consultant whom the client first met to discuss the assignment would be the same consultant who would undertake the work . |
| 9 | RAY WILKINS knows old club Manchester United will be all out for revenge today after Queens Park Rangers effectively cost them the title last year . |
| 10 | ‘ The State ’ , wrote one , ‘ is a lifeless mass , to which the monarch first gives life ; a machine without motion , which the monarch first sets moving and to whose mechanism he gives reality … the monarch lives for the State and the State lives through him . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The State ’ , wrote one , ‘ is a lifeless mass , to which the monarch first gives life ; a machine without motion , which the monarch first sets moving and to whose mechanism he gives reality … the monarch lives for the State and the State lives through him . ’ |
| 12 | the status history of the DC , that is for each state through which the DC has passed , including the current state , the date at which the DC last entered that state . |
| 13 | The most efficient point at which to identify a word is thus after hearing the phoneme at which the word first differs from every other word in English . |
| 14 | So , equipped with a newly-restored 1942 300 hp Stearman ( the Cannibal Queen of the title ) former A-6 Intruder pilot Coonts launches off with his teenage son aboard to set wheel in all 48 contiguous states , stopping en route to visit family , ex-wife , old squadron buddies , national monuments , places of pilgrimage ( like Kill Devil Hills , from which the Wrights first flew ) , aviation museums , and pausing awhile en route to give rides in the big yellow biplane to anyone who asks , and to philosophise on racial equality , politics , religion , women the FAA , Disneyworld … |
| 15 | The UniSQL/M Multidatabase System , which the company first talked about back at UniForum in January and was due earlier this year ( UX No 368 ) , reportedly lets Unix users unify the schemas of various distributed multi-vendor databases into a single homogeneous database schema accessible through SQL/M 's object-oriented query language . |
| 16 | Taxes Act 1988 , s66(3) states that if at any time a person acquires a new source of any income in respect of which he is chargeable under Case III or makes an addition to any source of any such income then in the year of assessment in which the income first arises from the source or addition and the two following years of assessment the charge shall be on an actual basis in accordance with TA 1988 , s66(1) . |
| 17 | These cottages were once the abodes of the workers in the famous glove-making industry on which the town first prospered , yet it is probably tourism that is the town 's major attraction now . |
| 18 | This locomotive has reverted to its original two-tone green livery , which the class first appeared in back in the early 1960s . |
| 19 | Real have won the championship in each of the last four seasons , so that is almost taken for granted ; his job is to win the European Cup , which the club last lifted in 1966 . |
| 20 | The age at which the woman first marries or enters into another type of conjugal union circumscribes childbearing . |
| 21 | The exhibition , curated by Peter Hamilton in close association with the photographer , will also show contact sheets and publications in which the photographs first appeared and provide an opportunity to assess the work of one of the finest photographers of the twentieth century ( 18 Apr. –21 June ) . |
| 22 | Of the eight million or more words to which the nine-volume fifth edition ultimately amounted , over half were entirely new articles or replacements of old ones , and nearly all else was revised . |
| 23 | For M. Hha I DNA cytosine-C 5 methyltransferase , an ordered mechanism was deduced from kinetic data in which the enzyme first binds DNA , then SAM ( 30 ) . |
| 24 | Determining the role and scope of managers within the industry is an exercise which the Association first undertook in the 1970s . |
| 25 | Team news Glenn Hoddle is having a fitness check tomorrow … but there could be a call up for former England winger Brian Marwood who 's on trial with the club … transfer speculation is linking Ross Maclaren with West Brom … its the dealine next week so watch this space … |
| 26 | Let me ask you the question first ! |
| 27 | Would it be worth your while to consider sending for the chairman not only of the 1922 committee but also of the parliamentary Labour party so that the leaders of the respective parties in Parliament can discuss with you the conduct last night ? |
| 28 | ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford just before the transfer deadline to win him the title last season . |
| 29 | ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford to win him the title last season . |
| 30 | Denis Smith says hopefully to get three points and play good football … there 's not much they can do in two days but his team talk will be tell the players to go out enjoy it and pass the ball … by a strange twist of fate Smith 's first match at the Manor is against the team that gave him the sack last season Bristol City |