Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness . |
| 3 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 4 | So what thoughts will be going through your mind when you send out the last Grand National runner ? |
| 5 | The Hong Kong authorities had carried out the first involuntary repatriation operation on Dec. 12 , 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] . |
| 6 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 7 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 8 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 9 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 10 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 11 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 12 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 13 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 14 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 15 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 16 | This project will carry out the first longitudinal study of the relationships between health and health related behaviour ; education and training ; and employment in men . |
| 17 | This research will carry out the first national random sample of Labour Party members . |
| 18 | PREMIER John Major flew home from his Spanish holiday yesterday — ready to kill off the last lingering hopes of early economic recovery . |
| 19 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 20 | I board the plane feeling no pain , eat the evening meal and continue with the G&T theme , land in Gatwick and make the connection via the smoking area of the bar and another gulped Gordon 's , then pass on the second offered dinner but not the accompanying booze and quietly pass out somewhere over the West Midlands , to be woken by a dishy blonde with an impudent , dimpled smile and we 're here we 've landed we 've arrived , we 're on the stand at the airport and I 'd ask her what she 's doing later because I 'm drunk enough to not care when she says ‘ No ’ as she probably will , but I know I 'm too tired and besides my left eyelid 's stuck again and I suspect it makes me look a bit like Quasimodo , so I do n't say anything except , ‘ Uh , thanks , ’ which is cool or sad , I 'm not sure which . |
| 21 | Also on Dec. 23 , leading intellectuals set up the first independent human rights monitoring group , the Forum for the Defence of Human Rights , which set itself the goal of the release of all political prisoners . |
| 22 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |
| 23 | Augustus laid out the first Imperial residence in this part of Rome , followed by Tiberius , Caligula and Domitian ; Septimius Severus built here on a very large scale . |
| 24 | This research project aims to carry out the first national random sample of Conservative party members in order to explore some of the most important questions concerning their role and importance both within the Conservative party itself and additionally within the wider political system . |
| 25 | This document purports to carry out the last mortal wish of the testator , except that he will probably go to eternity without being entirely sure that the document he signed actually said what he wanted , because he was quite unable to read it . |
| 26 | I go to the back of the file and sort out the next complete document . |
| 27 | In order to succeed in their desire to pass on their property to their children , men first introduced the rule of monogamy and thus brought about the first great change . |
| 28 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
| 29 | Gerry Fitt with the full support of his party brought down the last Labour government over a decision which greatly enhanced the SDLP 's standing . |
| 30 | Past Bracken Hill beyond Out Brough I looked down at Bainbridge snoozing in the sun before dropping down the last half-mile to the green and the Post Office for something to still the dust . |