Example sentences of "[coord] the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In between each pressing required to extract the cuvée ( or the first 2,050 litres ) an operation called retroussage , meaning ‘ to turn up ’ or ‘ to tuck up ’ , is carried out . |
| 2 | The 1798–9 version of The Prelude ( or the first two books ) may be read at this point , and if the reader finds more to enjoy in the narrative sections this is entirely appropriate since they appear to have been written as separate entities and only later blended into a single poem . |
| 3 | However , if one tries to envelop the noun phrase and the adjective in a single question , then , on the one hand , the result will usually or always be grammatical , because the verbs occurring in this construction can of course stand as ordinary transitive verbs , but , on the other , the question form will naturally be taken as related to the ordinary transitive verb with a simple noun phrase object — with a corresponding alteration in the meaning expressed ; ( 23 ) is an attempt to put such a question : ( 23 ) his sister set the owl free what did his sister set ? to which suitable answers could include the mousetrap or the first four questions . |
| 4 | Now of course there is the there is the spin off as well , that you can get some mileage out of the winning school or the first three , by inviting them here or visiting them and so forth , |
| 5 | Richard Branson gave some hundred press interviews , sipping discreetly at his champagne , acutely conscious of being , in his own phrase , ‘ on duty ’ , while the majority of passengers , blissfully unaware of the dramas of the last forty-eight hours — or the last four months — drank themselves into a condition of happy oblivion . |
| 6 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 7 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 8 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 9 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
| 10 | It was three-quarters of a length back to his stablemate , a 40–1 chance , and the first six home were all drawn low . |
| 11 | Existing Golf diesels are sold out , and the first 1992 models with the new larger body in right-hand-drive form began arriving on this side of the Channel last month . |
| 12 | The UN plans to deploy 3,500 soldiers and the first 500 were due to arrive in Mogadishu today . |
| 13 | Candidates will have been ranked in an unalterable order of preference by the party , and the first five will be named on the ballot paper . |
| 14 | The survey begins on Sunday and the first 10 patients to be discharged from each of 20 wards chosen at random will be given a comprehensive questionnaire to complete anonymously . |
| 15 | erm you end up with four different er types of er reproductive strategies which are of monogamy , polygyny , polygamy and polyandry and the first one monogamy is when you have one male and female and er this minimizes the differences in reproductive success and the way it does that is because erm it , it minimizes the difference between the sexes because monogamy takes the limitations of the male erm to reproduce only with the one female so the male to female ratio of reproductive success the same in monogamy , and er what happens to that is this little in er more equal towards their parental investment . |
| 16 | The last three hours of the flood and the first two hours of the ebb are the prime feeding periods for flatties . |
| 17 | The animal and vegetal poles define the main axis of the embryo and the first two cleavages are parallel to it while the third is always at right angles to it . |
| 18 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 19 | Peter performed this function with maximum cheerfulness for the last two pre-war years and the first two afterwards . |
| 20 | Heavy chain residue numbers are followed by H and protein G residues by A. a , Stereoscopic view of the hydrogen-bonds ( dashed lines ) formed by the last two β -strands in the CH1 domain ( thick lines ) and the first two β -strands in protein G ( thin lines ) . |
| 21 | ENGLAND 'S convincing wins in the Auckland one-day international and the first two Tests provided big shocks to the New Zealand cricket system . |
| 22 | Many of the experiments and creations of the Yorkists and the first two Tudors had been pushed aside , leaving the old system of Exchequer finance in command . |
| 23 | The idea originated with a resolution at the 1952 annual conference of delegates , and the first two medals were awarded in the following year at the Coronation Congress Dinner and Ball at Brighton . |
| 24 | In seeking to preserve landscapes of natural beauty and historic interest , the Trust can never ignore change , whether it be slow and imperceptible , as with climatic developments , or sudden and dramatic , as with the freak storms which swept the country in October 1987 and the first two months of last year . |
| 25 | It is clear from the Kanunname that the movement of scholars into other fields than the learned profession is envisaged : if a candidate for office in the learned profession , that is , a wishes to take up a military career instead , he is to be given a fief yielding 20,000 akce ; and Sahn muderrises and 300-akce kadis may hold the office of defterdar , and the first two may also become nisanci ; and 500-akce kadis may become . |
| 26 | Filming in Belfast and in other parts of Ulster starts on April 12 and the first two weeks coincide with Kara 's Easter holidays . |
| 27 | The year-long process was threatened at every stage by continuing reports of fighting , which persisted during April and the first two weeks of May . |
| 28 | The BSc course in Astrophysics runs in conjunction with the BSc course in Physics and the first two years are essentially the same for both . |
| 29 | While Dennis and Millie and the first four of their children , Jean , Carol , Suzette and Noel , had headed for the prosperous southern city of Melbourne , Dennis and Joan Riddiford decided to try their luck in the tougher climate of Cairns , in northern Queensland . |
| 30 | We do this , notionally , in any matrix multiplication : if we are performing the operation BC = A then we isolate a row of B and a column of C — respectively ( 1 × n ) and ( n × 1 ) submatrices — to produce an element — i.e. a ( 1 × 1 ) submatrix of A. Similarly , we could , for example , isolate the first three rows of B and the first four columns of C and multiply these submatrices , of order ( 3 × n ) and ( n × 4 ) , to give a ( 3 × 4 ) submatrix in the top left corner of A. Again , since unc it makes no different if we divide the range , s , of summation into subranges ; each subrange can be summed , and these sums added to give the total . |