Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow he delivers a lecture Beyond the Rhetoric : a cool look at architectural judgement as the first in a series by new professors at Leeds Polytechnic . |
| 2 | In the last years of Queen Anne 's reign Jacobites became hopeful — and Whigs fearful — that the Tory ministry , with the connivance of the Queen , might undo the Act of Settlement and establish the Old Pretender as the next in line to the throne . |
| 3 | As Argyll and lord James said , in their reply of the 13th in which they openly declared it to be the role of the nobles and council ‘ to provide that the ancient liberties of the realm be freed from tyranny of strangers ( and ) to abolish ( God assisting us ) all manifest idolatry and maintainers ’ , he had not been ‘ so full and plain as we expected ’ . |
| 4 | Copies of the first in the series , on Complaints , should reach Age Concern organisations by early December ; the next two ( Community Care Plans and Contracting ) should follow in the early part of 1992 . |
| 5 | The option always lists the SPRs in descending numerical order of identifier , presenting the highest SPR identifier in the specified range as the first in the list . |
| 6 | The option always lists the SSRs in descending numerical order of identifier , presenting the highest SSR identifier in the specified range as the first in the list . |
| 7 | But if there are only two , they will divide up the work of the third in overtime hours , but will they actually be present at work during that period ? ’ ( fieldnotes ) . |
| 8 | The April records include one of a party of five at Polegate on the 25th in 1972 . |
| 9 | Actually , this time it was two shots : first poor old Doug 's missed putt and then the shot Nicklaus put through the green on the 18th in the playoff . |
| 10 | Alliss himself brought the match to an abrupt end holing from 10 feet at the last in a manner which suggested that he might soon be trading in the personalised number plates on his car ( PUT 3 ) . |
| 11 | Axil also introduced an Open Look-based fax/modem package called AxilEnvoy as the first in a series of software products to provide added functionality such as voice mail , conversation record/playback , multimedia document support , security , image filtering and editing and optical character reading . |
| 12 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |
| 13 | During the years that the Uganda syllabus panels were meeting , the Lake Victoria Hotel , Entebbe was chosen as the venue for the first in a series of international workshops which heralded a new approach to curriculum development , a new dimension for pan-African co-operation and whose eventual product , the Entebbe Mathematics , proved to be possibly the most influential curriculum project yet to be launched in English — speaking Africa . |
| 14 | Ever since the end of the First Crusade in 1100 and the unsuccessful conclusion of the Second in 1184 , the tiny Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem — Outremer or the Land Beyond the Sea — had maintained a slender toehold on the eastern seaboard of the Holy Land . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's got a string of racehorses down south , ’ said Constance , ‘ and he did n't come by them as he was proceeding in a northerly direction on the evening of the twelfth in the course of his duty , I can tell you . ’ |
| 16 | We know that in the eleventh century the Jurassic Way in Oxfordshire was the main road to Northampton , probably joining it with the important town of Gloucester , and throughout the Middle Ages it was a market-road , linking one market town with the next in a long series . |
| 17 | Rory Gallagher has decided to put the boot into the bootleggers with the first in a series of live concert recordings . |
| 18 | The second baseline may show no difference from the first in which case the child is not learning . |
| 19 | Each edition since the fifth in 1957 has , theoretically , been published in two stages : Stage I , the basic classification which gives sufficient detail for most books ; and Stage 2 , ‘ microthought ’ to cover periodical articles , patents and related materials . |
| 20 | It will be the 50th Irish match at this venue since the first in 1868 . |
| 21 | Did that part lead to the next in any way ? |
| 22 | The REDUCTION DIVISION is immediately followed by the second meiotic division at right angles to the first in which the chromosomes form a normal metaphase arrangement and separate their chromatids in the normal mitotic fashion . |
| 23 | Tempers flared as each man dashed from one campaign appearance to the next in a last-minute effort to woo New Yorkers . |
| 24 | She danced her nights away under crystal chandeliers among the first in the land . |
| 25 | Yesterday , the Home Secretary and I saw representatives of car manufacturers and car importers in the United Kingdom for the second in a series of meetings . |
| 26 | Observe the slight modification rendered necessary in bar 6 owing to the lack of the low B on the viola , and how in the same bar , the doubling of the 7th in the dominant 7th is avoided by the return of the viola to D ♯ on the third beat . |
| 27 | ‘ Kavanagh said the steak was n't great but that the lamb was good , ’ Maggie added but Moran was already on his way out again , muttering that not even simple things were made clear in this house and if simple things could n't be made clear how was a person ever to get from one day to the next in this world . |
| 28 | Rules of play became a priority and the pit on the 3rd in front of the tee was temporarily classed as a hazard , the player having to drop and lose distance . |
| 29 | However , the report is also concerned with the balance between science and technology , noting the relative emphasis on the first in the UK compared to other countries ( Robbins 1963 , Table 40 ) and suggesting ways of upgrading the latter . |
| 30 | Conventionality and Contrast together allow speakers to be consistent from one occasion to the next in their uses of the conventional meanings assigned to linguistic forms , and to maintain the same form-meaning pairings over time . |