Example sentences of "[noun sg] that the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be a year from signing the deal that the first single is released . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's only rissoles , I 'm afraid , ’ said Alec , but if I felt a pang of disappointment that the first meal at his house was n't going to be out of the ordinary I was mistaken . |
| 3 | This was the culmination of an atomic programme that the Fourth Republic had begun and which de Gaulle had accelerated . |
| 4 | When Walter Luff took over the Transport Department , he realised the potential for development of the Fleetwood route , and it was with this in mind that the first twenty-five railcoaches were purchased . |
| 5 | Their farewell party is a sham and a mockery , a pretence that a great future awaits them instead of the fear that the next great event in their lives may be their death . |
| 6 | A sense of an ending , a millenarian impulse perhaps , a fear that the Last Days are coming . |
| 7 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 8 | It said in the E , the Echo I read in the Echo it 's er , Friday 's Echo that the first band comes on at four |
| 9 | The first indication that the fourth upsilon did indeed decay into B mesons came when the team working on the detector known as CLEO discovered energetic electrons and muons , presumably from the decays of B mesons ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 776 ) . |
| 10 | On this occasion the publicity or discussion in the town had had the beneficial effect that the first victim recognised the matter was being taken seriously and so reported the earlier incident . |
| 11 | He then went on to reject a submission that the third condition was only effective to except a Hong Kong profits taxpayer from liability to tax on the profits of an independent business carried on by him overseas . |
| 12 | It is not a condition that the third State be specified by name provided it is clear from the context or surrounding circumstances what State is intended , or that a group or class of States is intended of which the claiming State is a member . |
| 13 | In the result , although I have considerable sympathy with the third party in the position in which he finds himself and I think it may well be the case that the third defendant will fail to obtain contribution from him , I do not consider that this will inevitably be so . |
| 14 | Each generation of workers is in effect paying for its predecessors ' pensions , in the confident hope that the next generation will pay for theirs . |
| 15 | He made clear to Hitler that Britain would not fight to uphold the Versailles treaty and , for far too long , held to the hope that the Third Reich 's territorial ambitions would cease after it had vacuumed up all ethnic Germans . |
| 16 | Qualitatively the answer is illustrated in Figure 2 where the observed spectral shift is plotted against the time measured from the instant that the first signal from B reached A . |
| 17 | There is just enough flexibility to arrange that at P and in addition that the first derivatives of the metric components vanish . |
| 18 | If no such solution can be found , we impose the constraint that the first objective function should not drop below its optimal value before turning to the second objective . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't practise scoring direct from corner-kicks and it was just luck that the first one went in . |
| 20 | We also point out to them of course that the second er portion of the first year 's payment is taken out through banker 's order . |
| 21 | Meaning of course that the 51st had landed in Normandy several days after D-Day morning . |
| 22 | IT WAS surely no coincidence that the first record played after the Inspiral Carpets left the Palace stage was The Stranglers ‘ Golden Brown ’ . |
| 23 | It was no coincidence that the first official title of the Free French movement 's executive — a title which de Gaulle had suggested to Churchill as early as July 1940 — was the Conseil de Défense de l'Empire . |
| 24 | After 1956 — the year in which the government had tried and failed to cut off Arab support for the FLN in the ill-fated Anglo-French Suez expedition — there had been a growing perception , both in Paris and among the general public , that these dilemmas were not likely to be resolved by short-lived coalition governments of the kind that the Fourth Republic produced . |
| 25 | It may well be in this mis-match of experience that the first seeds of misunderstanding and destructive tension are sown , particularly as the education officer is often perceived as ‘ the authority ’ , in several senses of the word , while the head has a greater knowledge of the processes of education required in school to meet the needs of the children . |
| 26 | When a new and relevantly similar action occurs , one must either call it good or take back one 's judgement that the first one was good . |
| 27 | That will not always seem a preferable alternative to the a cappella practice of English cathedrals and Oxbridge chapels , nurtured in a context ( the daily preparation of liturgical services ) requiring certain skills that we may imagine any medieval chapel singer would recognize as his own , whatever the damage that the 19th century may have done to ‘ the English cathedral style ’ and its historical continuity . |
| 28 | As one mouthful of food is being chewed , the other is on the fork and on its way up — ready to be put in the mouth the second that the first mouthful starts on its way down the throat . |
| 29 | There are , I believe , two reasons , first that closed territory distribution ( sales outside an area being prohibited ) is normally infeasible and second that the fourth externality may be of importance . |
| 30 | After more than a century of classical architecture , the mainstream of which became plainer and duller towards the end of the Georges , it is no wonder that the second Sir Robert wanted to go ‘ Tudor ’ . |