Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joan Bromberg describes in some detail the US 's preparation for the Second International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy . |
| 2 | In preparation for the first National Assembly elections , scheduled for Dec. 21 [ see p. 38291 ] , the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) at its fifth national congress on Oct. 13 announced a draft manifesto containing a new clause pledging to " build a Taiwanese republic with independent sovereignty " and to redefine the territory of Taiwan , subject to a national plebiscite . |
| 3 | The main function of MPs is to support their leaders , to attack the other side and to score the maximum points with the electorate in preparation for the next general election . |
| 4 | The departures from a spherically symmetrical gravitational field are so big that J 2 is large enough to have been measured very accurately , and for the same reason this is also the case for the next gravitational coefficient in the series , J 4 ( jay-four ) . |
| 5 | Chen also said that Taiwan would spend US$5,000 million on weapons programmes during the next fiscal year beginning in July . |
| 6 | It began on Oct. 1 after tens of thousands of nationalists opposed to communist party domination of the Ukrainian government had taken part for the second consecutive day in demonstrations in Kiev . |
| 7 | After that , he flies to Paris for a meeting with the French President , then on to Germany for the first historic conference with the heads of all the NATO , European Community and Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 8 | Following negotiations between the members of the ruling coalition , Franco Carraro was elected in mid-December as the first Socialist mayor of the city . |
| 9 | Deportivo Coruna stay top of the Spanish First Division for the eighth successive week after a 2–1 home win over Sporting Gijon . |
| 10 | On Feb. 1 , 1990 , Saudi Arabia announced plans for the first electronic share dealing system in the Gulf , to be launched in April , which bankers said would revolutionize the market and attract many new investors . |
| 11 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 12 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 13 | The proposal to close Seacombe Ferry comes a week after the revitalised service won a top tourist award for the second successive year . |
| 14 | Hot shot : Rangers striker Ally McCoist has won the Adidas Golden Boot award for the second consecutive season . |
| 15 | To Lichfield for the 17th Literary Dinner , hosted at the spectacular and refurbished Guild Hall by booksellers Ralph James and Cliff Redshaw . |
| 16 | But , with that unpredictability which makes biology such a fascinating science , it was some biochemists interested in nutrition who laid foundations for the next major advance in the treatment of cancer . |
| 17 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 18 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 20 | BGS provided much of the logistical support for the first international conference arranged under the auspices of IGCP Project 294 , Very Low Grade Metamorphism , which was held at the University of Manchester , 5–6 July 1990 . |
| 21 | Among the attractive little villages and market-places snuggling under the foothills , Ormiston became the centre of Cockburn 's model estates during the first experimental enclosures . |
| 22 | Together this mixture of lumpen proletarian resentment and art-school manipulation lit the fuse for the first major explosion in pop music — and pop culture — for ten years . |
| 23 | Politicians described the panel 's proposals for the first major reform of the 35-year-old Fifth Republic 's constitution as modest . |
| 24 | The BDDA 's farewell gesture to him was his election as the first Honourary Vice-president . |
| 25 | At least 2,000 people pelted security forces with cobblestones during the fourth consecutive night of often bloody fracas . |
| 26 | That rise means Alliance has outstripped the FT-A Index for the fourth successive year , this time by nearly 5 per cent . |
| 27 | More than 400 visitors passed through the doors of Brackenhoe School , Middlesbrough for the 43rd Annual Convention of the North of England Philatelic Association on Saturday . |
| 28 | Recent trends in the geography of voting in Great Britain pose major problems for all political parties as they develop strategies for the next general election . |
| 29 | Morley Street carried off the Aintree Hurdle for the third successive year but was far from convincing in holding off Minorettes Girl . |
| 30 | Defeat would virtually assure the Belgians of a place in the finals in America , while forcing the Welsh to join Czechoslovakia and the unpredictable Romanians in a mad scramble for the second qualifying place . |