Example sentences of "[subord] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By way of contrast , the Spanish conquerors of northwest South America ( modern Colombia ) , where the first deposits were found , regarded it as a dangerous adulterant of gold and silver and tried to prohibit its export — unavailingly , although its supply to European chemists was made capricious . |
| 2 | The initial impact will be felt most keenly in the infant school where the first stages of the National Curriculum are already in place . |
| 3 | Thus , where the first coordinators fulfilled a brief dominated by special needs , with curriculum development and TTT level-pegging a little way behind , they and their successors in 1989 were as likely to be concerned with curriculum management and teaching , in collaboration or alone . |
| 4 | Such an approach might begin by adopting Goffman 's ( 1976 ) distinction between systems-constraints and ritual-constraints , where the first labels the ingredients essential to sustaining any kind of systematic interweaving of actions by more than one party , and the second those ingredients that , while not essential to the maintaining of interaction , are nevertheless typical of it they are , if one likes , the social dimensions of interaction . |
| 5 | Machico — where the first settlers landed |
| 6 | In fact , this arrangement has led to the family being called the Tripletail family , where the second parts of the dorsal and anal fin are , respectively , directly above and below the caudle fin . |
| 7 | This green was then under the wood approximately where the 5th tees are now , and very prone to dampness . |
| 8 | They are now hailed as nothing less than the first Europeans . |
| 9 | And harder than the first weeks are the first days . |
| 10 | When its petrol tank exploded a few minutes later , the flames from the blazing car , the house and the cainca lit the dawn sky more brilliantly than the first rays of the rising sun . |
| 11 | And harder than the first months are the first weeks . |
| 12 | The language here is very sensuous and more physical than the last stanzas with words such as ‘ wondrous ’ , ‘ curious ’ and ‘ ripe ’ . |
| 13 | By the end of that book , though , they have got to the 13th March , some eight days later than the last events of which we are told in Book III . |
| 14 | Although the first variants suffered from numerous teething problems , the aircraft became one of the most successful products ever built by Lockheed and seeing the various types all filmed in glorious colour certainly makes this video a must for all Constellation fans . |
| 15 | Although the first fruits of this decision took place in l982 , the writing had been on the wall , and read by us many years before that , and it took a period of some years to find a way of moving out of polythene , which was not only ICI 's own proud invention , but an area where we had been acknowledged world leaders for many years . |
| 16 | Although the first units were somewhat spartan , the later builds were well equipped and responsible for a sizeable upturn in passenger business on some routes . |
| 17 | Although the first drops of water only officially began to trickle into the basin in 1975 , Rutland Water is already famous for its wildfowl numbers . |
| 18 | Although the last days of the dying year were bitterly cold , there was no more snow . |
| 19 | We married because I was pregnant , so the first years of our marriage were spent in a whirlwind of babies and evening jobs to earn extra money . |
| 20 | Once the first contacts were made , the fieldworker attempted to fulfil certain goals which are outlined only briefly here ( see Labov 1981 : 8 for details ) . |
| 21 | Once the first pangs of hunger had been satisfied , Cranston interrogated the friar . |
| 22 | MacCulloch ( 1819 ) , and later , Murchison and Geikie ( 1861 ) , provided the first accounts of the geology of Lewis and Harris and the other islands which constitute the north east-south west chain of islands called the Outer Hebrides , which lies some 70 km west of the northern Scottish mainland . |
| 23 | Provided the third parties accept this ( through ratification of the Protocol ) there is no reason not to accept this device . |
| 24 | Remember the order of training and try not to be tempted to have the horse ‘ on the bit ’ until the first stages are consolidated and the horse has become supple and balanced . |
| 25 | There is no intention to review the announcement on the Scottish regiments , but there is at least two years until the first amalgamations and the hon. Gentleman will be aware that the Scottish ones will take place at the end of the process . |
| 26 | As summer drew on , the ocean of green became darker and darker until the first fires of autumn caught the leaves and turned them into a patchwork of burnished copper and gold leaving the black of the yews standing out once more . |
| 27 | It will not be possible to say whether validation has been effective in ensuring that the Council 's courses are truly fulfilling their aims until the first graduates start entering industry but we have already started to review the operation of the validation process . |
| 28 | He booked the second floor of the Ivy restaurant near the theatre and there Lou and Pat , and his closest friends of the moment , would drink endless cups of coffee until the first editions of the paper came out . |
| 29 | In pursuance of this last , they waited until the first yells and screams sounded from the unhappy village , followed quickly by the glow of fire . |
| 30 | She and her Mum go to the pictures often , and on Saturday nights they fry steak and listen to the radio , and talk until the last embers have faded to ash . |