Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The operation of news values constitutes the second set of pressures . |
| 2 | The town was laid out in a military camp plan with a wide , straight road crossing the city centre from one side of the town to the other and similar roads intersecting the first at right angles . |
| 3 | In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | The following " rejectionist " groups boycotted the 19th PNC session : Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP — GC — Ahmed Jabril l . ) ; |
| 5 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 6 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 7 | Formulation of Labour Government policies to support the Third Pillar — the projection and protection of British interests overseas — needed least reorientation of traditional British military thinking that had evolved from three centuries of global geo-political experience . |
| 8 | This research attempts to provide the first detailed study of the formation of the modern medical profession within the context of local communities . |
| 9 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 10 | International law experts say the first reason is the strongest and the last the weakest . |
| 11 | Experts say the 16th century drawing is the earliest hand-painted map of the Fens . |
| 12 | As the Owls entered the last 25 minutes , they needed just one goal to square the tie — and they looked perfectly capable of getting it . |
| 13 | The quality of the first element of the diphthongs/long vowels is modified by some phonological rules , while other rules supply the second element automatically . |
| 14 | Liverpool SC and Renegades shared the first leg spoils at 6–6 , and it was all square again in the second leg , which means it now goes to a three frame play-off at a date to be decided by the committee . |
| 15 | Opposition parties boycotted the first day of the budget session of the Lok Sabha on Feb. 21 , and two state governors were replaced earlier in the month , in connection with the decision to impose president 's rule in Tamil Nadu in late January [ see p. 37964 ] . |
| 16 | The Maronite Christian parties boycotted the third round , as they had the previous two rounds . |
| 17 | Her eyes scanned the first page quickly , taking in the expected account of how Ellen had looked after Oreste as her own , but when she came to the reasons why he had not been handed over to Gigia , Wilson slowed down and even repeated the words to herself . |
| 18 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 19 | The pictures drew the first of many comparisons with Brigitte Bardot . |
| 20 | She narrowed her eyes to catch the first mosquito smudge of distant cormorants — give them till daylight , she told herself as if you can command their flight ! |
| 21 | Other subjects used the first part of the show included the Dart Valley railway , the Red Arrows and computer graphics . |
| 22 | With the McDevitt brothers filling the first two places it was left to Des Wilkinson and Les Coatup in fourth and seventh positions to give Wirral an easy win ahead of Sefton . |
| 23 | During the following two months came the first reports of Baghdad 's retaliation at the frontier town of Halabjah , in PUK territory , where aircraft were said to have dropped bombs containing poison gas . |
| 24 | By contrast , most British supporters walk the last part of the way to the stadium and derive a greater sense of excitement , anticipation and being part of a crowd . |
| 25 | Losses on domestic mortgage indemnity policies alone , where insurers stand the first slice of losses on the sale of repossessed houses , were cut from £257 million in 1991 to £160 million . |
| 26 | TEENAGERS facing the last two years of compulsory schooling will be able to study new ‘ short courses ’ as an alternative to full GCSE ones . |
| 27 | TEENAGERS facing the last two years of compulsory schooling will be able to study new ‘ short courses ’ as an alternative to full GCSE ones . |
| 28 | Tass confirmed on Sept. 18 , 1989 , that two Japanese journalists had been selected , in line with a $12,000,000 agreement made in March 1989 with the Tokyo TBS television network , as candidates to give the first space broadcast from Mir at an unspecified date in 1991 , despite earlier protests from Soviet journalists that the decision was unpatriotic . |
| 29 | As foreseen under the peace agreement , officials of the two parties began the first meeting of their Joint Political and Military Commission , together with Soviet , US and Portuguese representatives , in Luanda on June 17 . |
| 30 | Levy ( 1989 ) and Flesaker ( 1991 ) have shown that assuming the changes in the riskless interest rate are known ( and that contracts are divisible ; Polakoff , 1991 ) , is equivalent to assuming that each day the traders know the next day 's risk-free interest rate with certainty . |