Example sentences of "[pron] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |
| 2 | I had felt at the instant the idea suggested itself to me the first glimmer of positive thought : suddenly I knew I was not going to sink . |
| 3 | That God will give me a clear vision for the future and reveal to me the next step after DTS . |
| 4 | To me the last part of the poem is the one that really contains the message of futility suggested by the title : |
| 5 | It brought closer Home Office control and local authority subsidy to reformatories for children for whom the first resort of probation had either failed or was thought inappropriate . |
| 6 | Newry , for whom the next step in their evolution is to make an impression on the park as well as off it , proudly and quite rightly tout their immaculate facility as one of the major sporting successes in the district . |
| 7 | This makes them the first chain of salons in the U.K. specialising in both Afro and European hairdressing . |
| 8 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 9 | First , if the specimen is subjected to axial stress — as well as the twist , then as Biot ( 1939 ) has shown , Equation ( 5.3 ) needs to be modified so that where is the applied torque and I the second moment of area of the cross-section with respect to the twist axis . |
| 10 | Yet the circumstances in which ( 2d ) might be uttered are likely to be quite different from those in which the first sentence of extract ( I ) was uttered . |
| 11 | The warming phase was interrupted by a cold snap in which the first flip from warm to cool took only three years . |
| 12 | A good example is provided by his comment on the way in which the first editor of the journal Nature allowed his personal opinions to intrude upon its pages : ‘ [ Norman ] Lockyer sometimes forgets that he is only the editor and not the author of Nature . ’ |
| 13 | The rise of the hill is dominated by a statue of Robert the Bruce on horseback , and within a swirl of concrete rotunda is the Borestone , at which the first blow of the battle was struck and by which Bruce set up his standard . |
| 14 | This general outline story of the first Passover is called the Haggadah , after which the first part of the special Psalms for Passover are sung , known as the Hallel Psalms ( Psalms 112–13 ) . |
| 15 | The work to be considered in this chapter provides for a temporary completion of the argument concerning the nature of objectification to which the first part of this book has been devoted . |
| 16 | On Oct. 18 , 1989 , the World Bank approved two loans totalling $89,000,000 , through its soft-loan affiliate , the International Development Association ( IDA ) ; $45,000,000 represented the second tranche of an industrial sector adjustment credit , of which the first tranche of $62,000,000 had been released in 1988 . |
| 17 | Non-finite clauses are those whose predicator element consists of a non-finite verbal group , such as those in which the first verb in sequence is in one of the following forms . |
| 18 | These are the Fieldnames but in many spreadsheets the cells in which the first row of data is entered are just as important , if not more so than the names themselves . |
| 19 | A start state , state 0 , must always be included , into which the first version of a module following the model will enter . |
| 20 | Even the recipe for George Washington 's mother 's gingerbread allegedly found " in an old worn cookery book " dated 1784 , of which the first item on the list of ingredients is ½ cup of margarine , could be said to be honest in the sense that it is candidly admitted that margarine is what is actually now used in the kitchens at Claverton Manor , the American Museum near Bath where both the gingerbread and the leaflet giving the recipe are purveyed to the public . |
| 21 | But there is a more general condition , which the first use of ‘ Here ’ shares with the second , namely , the possibility of distinguishing one place from another . |
| 22 | The HAT has purchased extra land at each site on which the first phase of new houses will be built . |
| 23 | ( b ) Allocate the total cost of the payroll to the calendar month in which the last day of the time sheet falls . |
| 24 | To those who , like me , find it difficult to relate the education of the young child to a future market place and to the , as yet unknown , technological changes which the last decade of this century and the first decade of the next will bring , the debate is somewhat arid . |
| 25 | It is then developed in seven statements to a climactic definition of the nature of the fire of love ; they are brought to a triumphant conclusion by juxtaposing a negative statement with its positive form to indicate ways in which the third degree of singular love fulfils and transcends the longing of the earlier stages : The phrase from The Song of Songs ( 5:2 ) which heralds the arrival of the beloved , here conveys a sense of a transformed newly awakened consciousness where longing and the unquiet ego are quenched . |
| 26 | Shem 's family comes last , as these are the nations around which the next stage of the narrative develops . |
| 27 | Its the first operation of its kind in Britain , and six police forces are pooling their resources to spread the net right across the Central region . |
| 28 | its the second leg of the first round of the coca cola cup tomorrow night … |
| 29 | Its the second blow in as many months for Noteman who missed out on a glamour trip to Barcelona with the Irish over-35 team for the same reason . |
| 30 | Its the third attack in three weeks on mares in the Princess Risborough area . |