Example sentences of "[adv] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE IRB admitted five new members : Andorra ( a country playing in the FIRA second division ) , Chile ( arguably the second strongest nation in South America ) , Luxembourg , Hungary , and Latvia ( the first nation of the crumbling Soviet empire to join the Board ) . |
| 2 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 3 | MAIDSTONE U12 's visited twin town , in France , fro the 16th International Marcel Communeau Youth Rugby Tournament along with more than 60 clubs from France , Belgium , Holland and Germany . |
| 4 | But certainly at the moment , erm and at least until presumably the next general election , erm nobody can see much light at the end of that tunnel . |
| 5 | Luckily the last few miles are downhill into Barnsley . ’ |
| 6 | Sandy played absolutely fantastically the first two days , but the greens were very strange and unkind to him . |
| 7 | LENNOX LEWIS and Frank Maloney are apparently the last two people this side of Jupiter to realise that when it comes to world heavyweight boxing titles , possession is 10 tenths of the law . |
| 8 | Among the more successful privately owned terminals have been the Glaswegian trio of Deanside , Mossend and Law junction , all of which ( but especially the first two ) have attracted healthy quantities of regular traffic . |
| 9 | ‘ effectiveness ’ and ‘ economy ’ were also used ; the meaning of these terms , especially the first two , has not always been agreed upon by writers in the context of LMS . |
| 10 | Notice especially the first two . |
| 11 | All the works played clearly displayed this facet , especially the first two Alternances for wind quintet and Scherzo da Fantasia III for violin and cello . |
| 12 | Was this , perhaps the first 5-point try scored in this country ? |
| 13 | The method used for climbing steep ice which employs the two forward facing points and perhaps the first two of the downward ones . |
| 14 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 15 | Perhaps the first essential will sound trivial . |
| 16 | Calvinist Ghent in the 1570s , Paris under the domination of the Catholic League were perhaps the first sustained exercises in popular power in the modern period , and even they did not last long . |
| 17 | Perhaps the first significant initiative came from France , although the Dutch politician , Sicco Mansholt , had already drafted a plan for agricultural free trade that would benefit Western Europe as a whole , but especially the cost-effective Netherlands agricultural industry . |
| 18 | But if Charles was the first Carolingian , and perhaps the first medieval king , to show an insider 's appreciation of contemporary scholarship , he had ( directly or indirectly ) his mother to thank . |
| 19 | From 1953 to 1964 we built up that factory into perhaps the second largest of its kind in the world and certainly the largest and best in Europe . |
| 20 | Such as the Canton commune where down here in er Canton , perhaps the second major industrial city in China , the communists rose in revolt erm and attempted to establish erm a kind of red base in the city of Canton . |
| 21 | Baldwin was perhaps the last Prime Minister to treat his Cabinet colleagues , as Gladstone had done , as members of a college of cardinals . |
| 22 | In 1932 it had captured international headlines when the church was attacked by a mob of evangelical bigots who went to work with sledgehammers , wrecking altars and destroying ornaments of which they disapproved ; perhaps the last violent twitch of the Puritan tail on English soil . |
| 23 | Perhaps the last feeble kick of this lust to print one 's name was the station platform and amusement arcade machine where , on inserting a penny , one was able to punch one 's name on a metal strip , which the contraption disgorged on the pull of a handle . |
| 24 | Perhaps the last three Sonatas verge more on the side of a string quintet , after all they were roughly contemporaneous with the great C major String Quintet ? |
| 25 | The next leader of the Labour Party , perhaps the next Prime Minister , could be the lad from Fairfield Terrace , Trimdon . |
| 26 | Perhaps the next best bargain after such rooms in blocks of workmen 's dwellings is a portion of a small house . |
| 27 | Indeed , the development of a set of assessment procedures which integrate structural , semantic and functional descriptions of language is perhaps the next major focus for clinical research . |
| 28 | Perhaps the next major project will be breeding , after growing on several of one species ! |
| 29 | Erm having said that though I think that erm perhaps the next few great achievements were perhaps more revolutionary , really , erm because they were s now , he 's now talking about overthrowing erm the feudal rule of local tyrants erm overthrowing the armed forces of the landlords , overthrowing the political power of the county magistrate and ov this one 's possibly the most important anti-revolution restorationist one I think probably , the overthrowing of clan authority of the ancestral temples and the clan elders . |
| 30 | Well obviously the last few weeks the eastern Mediterranean has been hit very badly erm but even as from yesterday places like Cyprus are starting to come back very quickly . |