Example sentences of "[noun sg] as the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker . |
| 2 | Colonic transit was similarly assessed with the four colonic segments and effluent as the fifth segment . |
| 3 | Using anti-env antiserum as the second layer , specific NIP.BSA-binding activity was detected in supernatants from pooled pNIPenv psi2 clones ( titre 10 3 G418 t.u. /ml ) and from clone psi2-NIPenv5 , but not from clone psi2-NIPenv1 or pooled psi2-DCNeo clones ( titre 10 3 G418 t.u. /ml ) . |
| 4 | Tomorrow he delivers a lecture Beyond the Rhetoric : a cool look at architectural judgement as the first in a series by new professors at Leeds Polytechnic . |
| 5 | DEC also announced NAS support for Sun and NAS Advantage — a higher level of conformance with DEC 's Network Application Support architecture , with SAS and Progress as the first applications to win the brand-level . |
| 6 | Jack 's full-back partner was ‘ Dusty ’ Rhodes , while behind them was the fabulous Jack Alderson and these three heroes played an amazing sequence of exactly 100 consecutive matches together ( including cup-ties and friendlies ) helping the Palace into the Football League in the process and then into the 2nd Division as the first champions of the newly formed 3rd Division in 1920–21 . |
| 7 | It was followed , after the ammunition pouches of the defenders had been emptied , by total slaughter as the last line on the summit of an open hill was breached . |
| 8 | The ministers ' first act was the unanimous endorsement on June 19 of Albania 's admission as the 35th member of CSCE [ see also pp. 37385 ; 37746-47 ; 37838 ] . |
| 9 | In a general election on July 19 , 1987 [ see pp. 35388-90 ] , the PSD , which under Cavaco Silva had been ruling as a minority administration , was returned to parliament as the first government since 1974 to command an absolute majority . |
| 10 | This question produces as varied a response as the first . |
| 11 | Double stranded cDNA is obtained by a number of methods including using a second oligonucleotide or degenerate mixture specific for a target mRNA , or else total double stranded cDNA is produced by ‘ tailing ’ the first strand and using the complementary homo(oligonucleotide) as the second primer . |
| 12 | the sound of whose surname and its positioning at the start of the final stanza aurally and visually rhymes with ‘ Declines ’ which similarly ends a sentence as the first word of stanza six . |
| 13 | If so what can we call the second zone if we consider the CBD as the first ? |
| 14 | The BDDA 's farewell gesture to him was his election as the first Honourary Vice-president . |
| 15 | Nationalists saw the US military presence as the last vestige of US colonialism , and in the run-up to the talks there were anti-US demonstrations , some violent . |
| 16 | Hank paid five dollars from his paper money as the first month 's rent , and , later that day , he and several of his friends pushed a dowager of a car round from his back lane , where it had been dumped by a tow truck , into the Dawsons ' garage . |
| 17 | From the moment of its entry into action as the first all-American unit involved in the war , the Lafayette Squadron became the object of immense publicity throughout the United States . |
| 18 | On 21 September 1989 , in breach of the Tomlin order , the first appellant executed a charge in favour of the two men who are described in the title to the action as the second defendants ( ‘ the mortgagees ’ ) . |
| 19 | He could accept self-determination and advance the prospects of a political settlement without burning his boats with the army — to whom he presented association as the first step towards a real , consensual integration — and without seeming to capitulate or feeling that he was capitulating to the FLN . |
| 20 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 21 | Tools for Self Reliance — a grant of £3,690 was approved for TFSR 's , development education programme as the second of a three year commitment . |
| 22 | In the last years of Queen Anne 's reign Jacobites became hopeful — and Whigs fearful — that the Tory ministry , with the connivance of the Queen , might undo the Act of Settlement and establish the Old Pretender as the next in line to the throne . |
| 23 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |
| 24 | But Colin Young , then managing director of Lawrie and Symington , had negotiated a tough deal as the first company to sign an EASE franchise in early 1990 . |
| 25 | Four years later , in the summer of 1953 , the BBC broadcast The Quatermass Experiment , a six part serial by Nigel Kneale , and a landmark as the first popularly accepted science fiction production . |
| 26 | The bowlers then found no difficulty in maintaining the lack of momentum as the second day in Colombo ended with Phil Tufnell again struggling for form , taking nought for 50 from 13 overs , with six boundaries being plundered from his first five overs . |
| 27 | Most meetings , for example , would benefit by regularly having a 15 minute review as the last item on the agenda . |
| 28 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |
| 29 | Her mother-in-law , Virginia Kelley , has no doubt that Hillary is going to be a major part of her son 's administration as the 41st president of the United States . |
| 30 | It will leave St Hildas college as the last remaining women-only college in Oxford . |