Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb -s] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you must wait for good weather to appreciate the mighty Picos de Europa range of mountains , just follow the river Deva through the dramatic La Hermida Defile ravine to the pretty Alpinesque town of Potes and on the Fuente Dé , where a cable car ascends the last 800 metres up to the sheer rock face . |
| 2 | Gary Stretch makes the first defence of his British light- middleweight championship against Rochdale 's Derek Wormald at the London Arena tonight , knowing it could lead to a lucrative world title eliminator against Leicester 's Chris Pyatt . |
| 3 | In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | Analyst Michael Saunders of Salomon Brothers expects the next year 's figure to reach £50 billion . |
| 5 | THE YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB YEARBOOK 1992 — McDermott 's withdrawal came at a bad time : an anticipatory profile of the Queensland firebreather leads the 92nd edition , followed by a réumé of others born outside the county line . |
| 6 | The Olympic silver medallist faces the first two finishers in the 1500 metres at the UK Championships , Enfield 's Steve Crabb and Paul Larkins of Nene Valley Harriers . |
| 7 | The typical justification for undergraduate courses involves the last of the issues related to academic courses : the distinction between ‘ content ’ and ‘ process ’ . |
| 8 | Dr Haritos-Fatouros says the first rule for those selecting potential torturers is : do not hire a sadist . |
| 9 | As a result , they feel themselves not only homeless but in a total existential crisis — ending up on the dossers circuit removes the last residues of respectability . |
| 10 | Dick Morrow , Tufting Technician upgrades the last in a series of tufting machines at BMK with modular needles . |
| 11 | Another RBAI player Ross McMillan takes the fourth cadet boy place to join Dominic McGreevy , Robert Robinson and Robert Fisher , but Ulster hopes will rest on the three girls sides for Gold medals with Leinster and Munster favourite to win the boys categories . |
| 12 | The England star takes the first step towards his long-awaited comeback in an A-team game this afternoon , five months after suffering a career-threatening Achilles injury . |
| 13 | Here , for example , is how the American journalist I. F. Stone describes the last hours of his voyage to Haifa , aboard a Turkish refugee ship called the Akbel , a listing hulk carrying hundreds of concentration camp survivors on their journey to Palestine . |
| 14 | A telephone statement enables the last 25 recorded transactions to be read back on the phone . |
| 15 | This week , Joy Francis investigates the first category of elder abuse : physical abuse and physical neglect ( see page 18 ) while Mervyn Eastman , recognised as the first social worker to highlight elder abuse , examines the problems of defining elder abuse ( see page 20 ) . |
| 16 | Ricardo 's 12-litre test unit approaches the next hurdle : US Federal 1994 emission standards . |
| 17 | After this chronological march through the archives , Jane Brown devotes the second part of her weighty book to the delightfully rich seam of garden buildings and ornament designed over the last 400 years . |
| 18 | Philip Brannon 's charming drawing of the FORT AT PEVERIL POINT shows the first pier ( 1859 ) in the background . |
| 19 | Robert Stevenson checks the first few metres of each weaving when it is removed from the loom . |
| 20 | Julia Browne traces the 19th century background and talks to three artists making a living out of animals |
| 21 | If the Common Desktop Environment clears the first hurdle , other ideas for it include moving desktop icons between distributed systems using an object request broker . |
| 22 | Commenting on the company 's figures ( see opposite ) , AT&T Co chairman Robert Allen says the first quarter results , excluding the accounting changes , auger well for the rest of the year . |
| 23 | Mr McCann presents the first Bond to Chris Smith of Royal Insurance , watched by Bill Tubey , Manweb ; Richard Smith , Barclays ; Erica Duff , Brookside Productions and Frank Cogley , Liverpool 's Director of Education Picture : TONY KENWRIGHT |
| 24 | Inside Story ( BBC-1 9.30pm ) producer Tom Bower presents the first investigation into Rowland , unravelling his past , tracing the controversial path which earned his fortune and revealing those who have benefited and suffered under his single-minded dictat . |
| 25 | Membership of the Town Boys represents the last promotion in the career of the football fan at Oxford and only the most committed are eligible . |
| 26 | Martin Sherwood celebrates the 300th anniversary of a Great French polymath |
| 27 | Budget day marks the fifth anniversary of the change in the method of encouragement for the planting of trees for future benefit from the previously long-tried fiscal relief to grant aid . |
| 28 | Richards Shipbuilders has the first four Gem-class minesweepers under construction in its East Anglian yards at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft . |
| 29 | Oak woodland covers the next stretch of hillside on the right and leads on to the Forestry Commission conifer forest . |
| 30 | Yet Mrs Molina becomes the first Latino to sit on the county 's governing board since 1872 — and the first woman ever . |