Example sentences of "[noun] at the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proponents of community policing often feel dismayed at the recklessness with which carefully cultivated relationships are undermined by the authorisation of ‘ fire brigade ’ tactics at the first suggestion of disorder . |
| 2 | May I express our disappointment at the last minute postponement of the carefully planned visit of Anne-Marie de Jonghe to Wales . |
| 3 | Niven came to grief at the eighth fence on Flight Hill and had his left arm in a sling when he left the course by ambulance . |
| 4 | I 've spent 13 years travelling the world with badminton — I was coach to the Australian side at the last World Championships — and it will be nice to spend some time at home . |
| 5 | It was a spectator sport where young men would show their courage by standing in the path of the maddened bull and then leaping side at the last moment . |
| 6 | Can I can I say before I do launch into the amendment to Mr that you have played your card at the last election and the Leicestershire public has resoundedly given their answer to your particular policies . |
| 7 | It would be a marvellous feat if the 22-year-old swimming pool attendant from Wakefield was to supercede Hare at the first attempt . |
| 8 | A public body is also accountable both politically and administratively : the politicians consider the effect of a given decision on the electorate at the next election ; and the administrators are anxious to avoid any risk of criticism . |
| 9 | Moreover , the coalition government so formed will not have to ( or even be able to ) face the electorate at the next election since the parties to the coalition will be free to fight again as independent entities . |
| 10 | One patient originally included in the study had acute colitis and a high level of IgG anti-lactoferrin at the first sampling occasion , and a further raised anti-lactoferrin level in a later serum sample ( not illustrated ) . |
| 11 | After the Lord Mayor 's Show came the dust cart and the ignominy of defeat at the first hurdle next year . |
| 12 | Politburo ‘ conservatives ’ hardly had a coherent programme , and their numbers were subject to continual attrition ( Ligachev , who left the leadership after his defeat at the 28th Congress , was a notable casualty ) . |
| 13 | Macmillan worked on the American fear that a crisis in Anglo-American relations might contribute to a Conservative defeat at the next election . |
| 14 | The possibility of a Conservative defeat at the next election promotion investors to unload shares . |
| 15 | Any Conservative you care to converse with will predict a close contest at the next election . |
| 16 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 17 | I am not sure that we would think the dancing , except by some of the principals , quite so wonderful by today 's standards , but we saw it with different eyes then , and John would have for comparison his memories of the Cape Town Ballet Club 's brave but handicapped attempt at the last act of the ballet , Aurora 's Wedding . |
| 18 | Tony asked , suspecting that Freddie had lost his nerve at the last minute . |
| 19 | She lost her nerve at the last minute . |
| 20 | The Lloyd George candidates at the last election smelt ; these will stink . |
| 21 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 22 | His only serious challenger was E.S.B. , but Devon Loch was a length to the good at the last fence and started to pull away up the run-in , over a quarter of a mile long . |
| 23 | ALL IN THE FAMILY William Randolph Hearst Jr had arguably the best seat at the twentieth century . |
| 24 | And that is why the SDP was declared to be a spent force the instant David Owen said that it would not be contesting every seat at the next election . |
| 25 | List MdBs must emulate them if they wish to safeguard their place on their party 's list or hope to win a constituency seat at the next election . |
| 26 | He often raises that subject , and we understand his desperation about what will happen to his seat at the next election . |
| 27 | Did she hope to stand in a winnable seat at the next election ? |
| 28 | THE former chairman of the GLC 's Police Committee and member of Ken Livingstone 's municipal revolutionary guard , Boateng , 40 , has risen rapidly since gaining his seat at the last election . |
| 29 | A new military doctrine , ‘ reasonable sufficiency ’ , was adopted by Gorbachev at the 27th Party Congress and subsequently by the Warsaw Treaty Organisation . |
| 30 | All the way to the station she asked it , Shall I jump out of the car at the next light and run ? |