Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 2 | Sunderland has the fourth highest number of smoking related deaths in the U K. Low birth weights are more common . |
| 3 | Clacton has the third highest rate in Britain . |
| 4 | Wolverhampton has the fifth highest overheads of any education authority in England . |
| 5 | Richards Shipbuilders has the first four Gem-class minesweepers under construction in its East Anglian yards at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft . |
| 6 | The Channel Tunnel construction is moving rapidly from the plan to the site and the new terminal represents the first definite move to link the region with the continent . |
| 7 | Mexico has the seventh largest oil and gas reserves in the world but the country 's comparatively recent admission to the hydrocarbon élite has proved a mixed blessing in the face of the fall in crude prices and a massive debt burden caused by extravagant , ill-managed and grandiose schemes to kick a Third World country into the twentieth century . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , figures out today show that the Thames Valley Police force has the second worst record in the country for solving crimes . |
| 9 | THE province 's top triathletes are set to converge on Newtownabbey this weekend as the borough hosts the last major event in the |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The new TI becomes the second largest engineering firm in the UK and one of the biggest in Europe |
| 12 | Our study provides the first histological data on bone turnover in women receiving long term tamoxifen treatment . |
| 13 | This work records the last photographic journey of his life : to Cyprus . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , Northern Ireland has the third highest death rate from skin cancer in the world . |
| 15 | A less glamorous version of its origin sees the first Manx cat as nothing more than a Manx sailor 's pet — a curiosity brought home after travels to the Orient . |
| 16 | Standish examines the first two difficulties ; the third is not surprising given Neptune 's long orbital period , 165 years ( so that not even one orbit has been completed since it was discovered ) . |
| 17 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
| 18 | Canada has the eighth largest coal resources in the world and the eighth largest gas reserves . |
| 19 | Paul Merton has the first post-modern catchphrase . |
| 20 | Planning and control in ‘ real money ’ — cash limits The first significant change from PESC volume control which was broadly recognized as having failed , came with the widespread introduction of cash limits . |
| 21 | Robert Stevenson checks the first few metres of each weaving when it is removed from the loom . |
| 22 | This move negates the last remaining advantage of the dying V2000 system developed by Philips and Grundig . |
| 23 | It remains to be seen whether the order rate is significant enough to justify the volume potential , even for a chip MIPS calls the first 100 SPECmark optimised for personal computers . |
| 24 | Cleaning baths , probe systems , submersible transducers , whistle reactors and tube reactors are described and illustrated by Mason , while Goodwin discusses the first two methods with details of other larger scale equipment . |
| 25 | After a few days comes the next crucial stage in the breaking process . |
| 26 | My constituency has the second highest unemployment in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | A measure of the scheme 's effectiveness is that the United Kingdom has the fifth highest drug prices in Europe ( about where we should expect to be ) . |
| 28 | Excluding Belgium , the United Kingdom has the second lowest life expectancy for females in the Community , but as Table 3 demonstrates , the differences are small . |
| 29 | Consistently , Owen rhymes the last two words in the fifth and seventh lines of each stanza , which is very effective . |
| 30 | The first person chooses an item beginning with the letter A and the second person repeats this , and continues with a word beginning with the letter B. The third person repeats the first two and adds a word beginning with the letter C , and so on . |