Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb -s] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example may be found in Mozart 's third sentence from the Andante just quoted : This looks quite different from the previous section ( Example 26 ) , yet it is really made up of semiquaver groups which end the second sentence , with the addition of the dotted rhythm which begins the second full bar of the music . |
| 2 | The second part is a quantitative study which complements the first part . |
| 3 | In the centre is a long paper fastener which permits the second circle to spin round so that the picture will appear in the window . |
| 4 | It is exactly this kind of function which gives the first three examples their odd effect . |
| 5 | I ca n't see that it matters , for the fact remains that it exemplifies the very finest and most elegant architecture which displays the first burgeoning of the English Renaissance . |
| 6 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 7 | THE Los Angeles Raiders , who have lost three of their first four games , yesterday fired their coach , Mike Shanahan , and replaced him with Art Shell , their offensive line coach who becomes the first black head coach in the NFL since 1926 . |
| 8 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
| 9 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 10 | No. 147 , in its earliest form , belongs to Bach 's Weimar period ; but for a Leipzig performance in 1723 he added recitatives , the famous chorale which concludes the first and seconds parts of the work , and perhaps the bass aria , too . |
| 11 | We may now consider the age group which overlaps the last , that of middle age . |
| 12 | At the age of 39 and 105 days he becomes the ninth oldest player in history to make his Test debut in Friday 's historic encounter between South Africa and India in Durban . |
| 13 | Matthew what does the second one mean ? |
| 14 | The relationship with the West , and since 1945 particularly with the US , has been the factor which sets the last 150 years of Japanese history apart from earlier centuries . |
| 15 | He has a senior wife who lays the first egg in the scrape he makes in the ground for her . |
| 16 | There are many different people who contribute to the efficient running of a clinic , including nurses , technicians , social workers , contact-tracers , doctors , and , the person who makes the first contact with a patient , the receptionist , whose contribution to the well-running of the department is of particular importance . |
| 17 | However , care should be exercised in the use of dictionaries of surnames , because none is quite infallible and some entries , in even the best of them , can be positively misleading , as the detailed example which forms the last section of this chapter demonstrates . |
| 18 | ‘ Ian took a bit of a battering on Saturday and I have studied the video of the game which shows the second goal was down to him . |
| 19 | This suggests an element of indecision in United States policy which provides the first point of investigation for this project . |
| 20 | Among the most striking works in the exhibition which marks the 25th anniversary of the MacRobert Gallery , is Cadell 's The Orange Blind , lent by Kelvingrove Gallery , Glasgow . |
| 21 | Until July 3 Light of the North An exhibition which marks the 900th anniversary of the death of Saint Margaret |
| 22 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 23 | Yet Poulantzas ' wish to argue hypothetically is peculiarly revealing ; for as well as drawing attention to the slight explanatory power of his theory it raises the third of the questions with which I began — the question of whether he has really succeeded in casting off voluntarism . |
| 24 | Gunzenhauser makes the very best of the repetitive rhythmic ideas of the outer movements and although he is perhaps a share more rhythmically plainspun than Kertész , in the first movement he eases the second subject in very nicely and the lolloping theme of the third movement Allegretto has much folksy charm . |
| 25 | Any surplus votes they had are re-allocated to the candidate who gets the second preference . |
| 26 | Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war . |
| 27 | In the course of this journey of escape , the bee collects the flower 's own pollen which pollinates the next flower which the bee visits . |
| 28 | The path length a an X-ray ( path A in figure 3.17 ) which strikes the top layer of atoms in a crystal is shorter than that of an X-ray which strikes the second layer ( path B ) . |
| 29 | His remarks served as a reminder that while Rangers have two forwards , McCoist and Hateley , who score as if there is no tomorrow , it is the goalkeeper who makes the next day dawn with a secure feeling . |
| 30 | And for my taste it fulfils the first law of festivals — it 's fun . |