Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found him a ‘ rather stern-featured man ’ , with a strong Northumbrian accent and seems to have preferred the ‘ Rocket ’ which she described as ‘ This snorting little animal , which I felt inclined to pat … ’ and so ranks among the first to fall under the spell of the steam locomotive . |
| 2 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 3 | If you put something like N H and then O H four well the convention is that when it 's a suffix stuff a subscript and a suffix below the line there and just after it , it only applies to the last element . |
| 4 | This project is a study of the origins of international trade disputes in manufactures since the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | And then it just says on the next page , ‘ Fagg angle ’ . ’ |
| 6 | For all her action-seeking , caring cosmopolitanism , she is imperial-insular in outlook , and soon sees through the Third World . |
| 7 | The tonic accent normally falls on the last item , but this does not tell us where the given element ends and the new one begins . |
| 8 | Second stage recovery generally begins in the third year . |
| 9 | The frequency of intercourse approximately halves in the first year of marriage but takes about 20 years to halve again . |
| 10 | It always goes onto the next number . |
| 11 | I went this year , during the town 's autumn festival , which always starts on the last Friday of August and lasts for 10 days . |
| 12 | The earliest record for spring arrival is of one at Chidham on 23 March 1971 , but arrival always starts in the first 10 days of April , and some movement continues to mid-June . |
| 13 | Flowering usually starts in the second year , with one flower head — the edible part — at the end of each shoot . |
| 14 | The change usually occurs on the first beat of a bar or phrase , which eliminates any fussiness when the footwork is intricate . |
| 15 | The next phase , the anal phase , usually occurs during the second year of the child 's life . |
| 16 | And it usually leads to the second thing which is to give some testimony . |
| 17 | I would expect further cuts over the next couple of months . |
| 18 | Wall fabric always sounds like the last word in luxury but in fact need not cost much . |
| 19 | As an added deterrent , this species usually waits until the last moment for the final clamping-down movement . |
| 20 | My friend Mike with the big house has n't phoned in yet has he either he usually phones in the last part of the programme . |
| 21 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 22 | The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page . |
| 23 | There is no time limit on the patient 's capacity for physical recovery , although an experienced physiotherapist usually knows within the first few weeks of starting treatment how quick or slow a hemiplegic patient 's physical recovery is likely to be . |
| 24 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 25 | It clearly ranks as the first written literature of any consequence . |
| 26 | If the position is correct then control automatically passes to the next option . |
| 27 | The current study clearly shows for the first time that PT-gliadin and/or fragments are intracellulary present in normal enterocytes after exposure . |
| 28 | This also applies to the first return . |
| 29 | The death of Aegidius was recorded within the account of the Loire wars in the Angers chronicle , and his son Syagrius later appears as the first of the opponents and victims of Childeric 's son Clovis . |
| 30 | The excavations in the early part of this century have made this a difficult building to interpret , but it is clear from the published plan that alterations had been made to the original structure , which probably dates from the third century . |