Example sentences of "[subord] its [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arran 's Bill again went through the Lords without too much trouble but , by this time , a sponsor had been found , and Leo Abse introduced the Sexual Offences Bill in the Commons in July 1966 , although its second reading was delayed until 19 December . |
| 2 | The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels . |
| 3 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 4 | As expected on the basis of the hypothesis proposed above , that the relationship between maternal age and chances of child survival may depend upon the status of the mortality transition , it was found that , in those regions where overall infant mortality is relatively low ( under 100 per 1,000 live births ) , the likelihood that an infant will survive until its first birthday is greatest if the child 's mother was 20 to 29 years old when it was born . |
| 5 | Capt Cameron , from Florida , stayed with his Sealand container ship until its next port of call at Felixstowe , Suffolk , and is now recovering in Ipswich Hospital . |
| 6 | At a meeting on Aug. 23-24 the UDPM executive decided to defer any further discussion of the country 's political system until its next congress , scheduled for March 1991 . |
| 7 | Betrayed if published as a £5.99 , B format paperback ; Bloomsbury says that most if its first print run of 15,000 copies has been subscribed . |
| 8 | In the US a share can only be sold short if its last price movement was upwards ( an uptick ) . |
| 9 | the anniversary of its incorporation or , if its last return was made up to a different date , the anniversary of that date . |
| 10 | One if its last acts had been to settle debts amounting to £182,500,000 ( US$297,657,500 as at April 2 , 1990 ) in an out-of-court settlement with 36 creditors on March 30 . |
| 11 | The call-slip , which is in duplicate , is then transmitted to the shelf where the item is located , and its top copy is left on the shelf , while its second copy accompanies the requested item to the Reading ( or to the South Reading Room via the Reading Room ) . |
| 12 | The prevalence of the disease in the gay community may also be related to the upsurge of interest and propaganda about homosexuality , while its first appearance in the US correlates with the American investment in paramedical research , ensuring that these ideas are at a higher concentration than elsewhere . |
| 13 | Meeting in Canton , China , the working group reviewed the progress made on research into global warming since its first report was published in June 1990 [ see ED no. 35/36 ] . |
| 14 | With 24.4 per cent of the vote , the League scored its most important electoral success since its first appearance , under the name of the Lombardy Regional Party , in 1987 . |
| 15 | The session reviewed the work carried out by the LFNC since its second congress and adopted a plan of action for 1991-92 . |
| 16 | The Charity Commission has launched a second formal investigation into Richmond Fellowship Charitable Foundation , less than a year since its last report into the mental health charity . |
| 17 | Discover the romantic ivy-covered Dower House of 1520 , deserted since its last occupant Dame Alice Knightley died in 1702 . |
| 18 | Next V-1 sortie was a daylight one at Beauvoir on June 29 , R5868 's first daylight sortie since its fourth operation with 83 Squadron on July 18 , 1942 , when it bombed the Krupps works at Essen . |
| 19 | Which ? says that before its first issue hit the streets in the Fifties , the consumers of the day were virtually on their own . |
| 20 | 150 years after its first branch opened in Rochdale , the new-look Co-Op was launched today in Cheltenham . |
| 21 | The founding of the Manchester and Salford Adult Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Association ( now the Manchester Centre for the Deaf ) in 1846 is a little obscure as its first reports do not commence until 1873 . |
| 22 | On present evidence , that would be welcome : a reunited Germany with Mr Kohl as its first chancellor is likely to be more prosperous , and stabler , than it would be under the Social Democrats . |
| 23 | The governing Socialist Party ( PS ) elected Laurent Fabius as its first secretary on Jan. 9 in succession to Pierre Mauroy , who had tendered his resignation two days earlier . |
| 24 | When Meg arrived at Uppark as its first chatelaine in many a year she found all the original fabrics in place , but hanging , through neglect , ‘ like grey seaweed ’ . |
| 25 | On 20 December 1780 , soon after his departure , Great Britain declared war on the United Provinces of the Netherlands , giving as its first reason ‘ That , in violation of treaty , they suffered an American pirate ( one Paul Jones , a rebel and a state criminal ) to remain several weeks in one of their ports ’ . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the three pioneers are readying themselves for a surge of interest : Marcos has appointed its Coventry engine supplier , JE Engineering , as its first distributor , Westfield is looking at a trio of dealers and Caterham plans to appoint half a dozen Rover distributors as service agents for the K-series engine that will power its first ‘ turn-key ’ car . |
| 27 | It has set up a Channel Partner programme and signed Emeryville , California-based Basis Inc as its first reseller . |
| 28 | His father , who was mayor of the village , started the first school and installed him in it as its first teacher when he was only 19 . |
| 29 | In June 1962 the NCCL had adopted a resolution from the Connolly Association calling for an inquiry into civil liberties in Northern Ireland ; the NICCL seems to have been set up in response and as its first action , in July , it held a meeting to prepare a memorandum on civil rights to present to Mr Justice Bose of the International Commission of jurists , who was visiting Belfast . |
| 30 | The Oxford English Dictionary gives as its first meaning for ‘ moor ’ ‘ uncultivated ground covered with heather ’ . |