Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The $18,000,000 sale marked the second failure of a commercial bank in the US capital within the past year , the National Bank of Washington having collapsed in 1990 . |
| 2 | When the 1981 Companies Act implemented the Fourth EC Company Law Directive , it was not generally recognised how the nature of financial reporting would be affected . |
| 3 | The newspaper story marked the first occasion on which the media had given coverage to the longstanding allegation of Bush 's infidelity . |
| 4 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 5 | The Phnom Penh government released the last of its political prisoners and prisoners of war on March 29 . |
| 6 | The Bonior-Hoyer contest marked the fourth occasion in the last five years on which the Democrats had chosen a senior leader . |
| 7 | More significantly , the State Department evinced the first sign of active hostility to Cuba by pressurising the British government into rejecting a Cuban order for military helicopters . |
| 8 | The Autumn issue marked the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain with articles on the Battle and those who fought in it . |
| 9 | It was therefore no surprise when the Macmillan government allocated the third TV channel to the BBC in 1963 , with a 1964 opening date . |
| 10 | Dr Howe … an Oxford graduate … had been a tutor in English at the Open University based at Foxcombe Hall in Oxford for the past two years … she 's recently published her first book … through Cambridge university Press called the First English Actresses … colleagues say she had a bright future . |
| 11 | Our Invention consists of an improvement on the Invention relating to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways which forms the subject of a previous application for Letters Patent dated the 22nd April 1896 , No. 8501 . |
| 12 | The Appeal Court labelled the first trial a ‘ costly disaster ’ never to be repeated ; as a result , the SFO has abandoned the second one . |