Example sentences of "[subord] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property . |
2 | After infection , the egg hatches in the small intestine and the L2 travels to the liver , where the first parasitic moult takes place . |
3 | This is illustrated in Fig. 5 , where the first few pixels are more widely spaced simply to fit everything into the diagram . |
4 | The origins of English Christianity can be found in Glastonbury Abbey , where the first Christian sanctuary in the British Isles was established and where , according to legend , King Arthur was buried . |
5 | And Russia is , after all , where the first English joint-stock company , of the sort whose shares we would recognise on the market today , got off the ground . |
6 | At Reading the unit joined the 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade , and thence to Churn Down on 31 August , where the 2nd Mounted Division was being formed . |
7 | ‘ I think you will find that the area marked out is intended as a viewing platform in order to see over King William 's Glen where the last major military engagement in Ireland was fought , ’ he instructed quietly . |
8 | An English style of demi-caractëre dance is not always very obvious except in the hornpipe and in Ashton 's Harvest , Maypole and Morris Stick Dance in La Fille Mal Gardée , where the last two vary very little from the traditional versions . |
9 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
10 | There was so much of loveliness in every scene , my mind was surfeited with joys : how the far-spreading bay , with its expanse of white shell-sand , was girded by a sea which placidly reflected the blue of heaven ; and how the seaweeds left their markings in curious lines just where the last outgoing wavelet left them ; the grassy knolls girding the hollow of the bay , and the rock promontories , whose darker tones gave force to the silver lining of the breaking wavelet . |
11 | Pip struggling to become a gentleman and find mutual love with Estella takes him through his early teens when he left his apprenticeship right through to his middle-age where the next major change takes place . |
12 | All speakers , except the last two , are partners at Cameron Markby Hewitt . |
13 | The same procedure is followed on the second and top wires , the latter taking a bigger load than the first two . |
14 | Again heavier than the first two rocks with some slightly sharp edges . |
15 | He said that he wrote stories , though he had to admit that he had never got further than the first two pages . |
16 | This looked harder than the first two and I was concerned . |
17 | The make-up of the Third Duma ( 1907–12 ) was markedly more conservative than the first two Dumas . |
18 | Third , and less depressing than the first two , Corinth is not completely excavated ( most of what the modern visitor sees is Roman ) and there is still hope that the classical agora may produce evidence of the kind we want ; though to get it , the excavators ( the American School in Athens ) will need permission to dig under the main square of the modern town . |
19 | For one thing , some Dip.HE courses are effectively no more than the first two years of a degree course , with the added minor advantage that a student can if he wishes leave after two years with an award . |
20 | Nevertheless , this searcher may well be interested in titles like " The ecology of the smaller rodents " , but these should be ranked lower than the first two . |
21 | The annual pension is increased for not less than the first 91 days of widowhood to the rate of the officer 's pensionable pay . |
22 | England expects nothing less than the first back-to-back grand slam since 1924 and there is little evidence to suggest it might not be duly delivered in south west London this afternoon . |
23 | Each weekday morning no more than the first three eligible children presenting to the casualty unit were recruited by the study physician ( SW ) , who explained the nature and purpose of the study to parents and obtained their consent . |
24 | I , I put that as number four , rather than the first three , which I think are terribly vital , so I would be grateful if these sort of things were taken on board . |
25 | Today 's microcomputer , at a cost of perhaps $300 , has more computing capacity than the first large electronic computer , ENIAC [ Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ] . |
26 | Since Raymond-Berengar was married to the been of Aragon and ruled that kingdom in his wife 's name , he might have taken the title of king , but refused to do so , saying that it was better to be known as the greatest count rather than the seventh greatest king . |
27 | It is £100,000 more than the estimated cost the council had put on the work , and more than £32,000 more than the second highest bid . |
28 | The Communist International quite deliberately set out to create " sections " under its detailed control , which would be more easily disciplined than the Second International parties which in Lenin 's eyes had been too independent to act together on the outbreak of war . |
29 | of marks on a question than the second 50 per cent. , and full marks are practically never given . |
30 | But two years of severe drought in the region have prompted suggestions to give the project a higher priority and to build it over the next two years rather than the next 14 , as originally planned . |