Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his New Year message in January 1990 Lee designated the First Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister , Goh Chok Tong , 48 , as his successor , indicating that he would take over " before the end of 1990 " [ see also p. 37085 ] . |
| 2 | The students repeat the last segment several times with correct stress and intonation . |
| 3 | He was probably the first man to solo 8a on French rock ; made the first winter lone ascent of the South Face of the Aiguille du Fou ( scene of Alan Rouse 's famed injury during an earlier , summer , solo ) and also made one of the most prestigious ascents in the area with his solo of Divine Providence — Patrick Gabarrou 's 1984 desperate on the Grand Pilier d'Angle buttress on Mont Blanc . |
| 4 | Let me answer the second question first . |
| 5 | On Nov. 6 Hungary became the first east European country to join the Council of Europe . |
| 6 | Shrewdly placed that year , ‘ Charlie ’ became the first horse this century to win nine handicaps in a season . |
| 7 | ‘ House Of Fun ’ became the first number one hit about the problems of going into a chemist for a packet of condoms and they had plenty of other insights left in them : ‘ Blue Skinned Beast ’ , unfortunately missing from this compilation , is one of the most scathing political tunes which British pop has ever produced , the kind of thing which has completely disappeared from the contented scene of today . |
| 8 | FRANK Gray became the third North-East managerial casualty since Christmas when he was sacked by Darlington yesterday . |
| 9 | Note the selection headings for these areas and write down the most important features of the case that occur in each of these sections in a layout that will make the next step easy for you . |
| 10 | London appointed the first school medical officer in 1890 . |
| 11 | Ottawa , Canada-based , ObjecTime Ltd , a Canadian Bell Northern Research Inc subsidiary , claims it has developed the first Unix object-oriented CASE tool for real-time applications , ObjecTime . |
| 12 | Captain Fuchs got the first warning seven minutes after leaving Schiphol airport at 6.22 Sunday evening . |
| 13 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 14 | But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple . |
| 15 | This year there will be a Jubilee Expedition to the forest region of northern Finland to which the founder , Surgeon-Commander G. Murray Levick , RN , led the first expedition 60 years ago . |
| 16 | Seacontrol represents the first time on-board maintenance software has been made commercially available to the shipping industry by a marine coatings supplier . |
| 17 | If that is difficult , mimic suprasegmentals first , and then see if the utterance can be divided into several parts so you can mimic the last part first , and then add to it bit by bit . |
| 18 | If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable , then you must submit to the second . |
| 19 | ‘ If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable … |
| 20 | We could not do the trip in and out of the town in time to catch the last plane that evening , so we were condemned to this place and an early flight . |
| 21 | White faced the official carpeting , defused the attacks with a firm but polite dignity , and went off to catch the next train unaffected by the experience . |
| 22 | Denying the twentieth century all that originality . ’ |
| 23 | But after the All Blacks had won the Second Test 59–6 Mains was rather more relaxed and in fact exuded some confidence about the prospects of his new-look team . |
| 24 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 25 | That question-mark needs the next article all to itself . |
| 26 | Sharp Corp has already signed to make and market the first Apple Personal Digital Assistant , Newton , and Sony Corp makes Apple 's smallest PowerBook . |
| 27 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |
| 28 | if any utterance is long and complicated , mimic the last phrase first , then the last two phrases , then the last three , and so on , until you can manage the whole utterance |
| 29 | I had the go-ahead last week-end and I interviewed the fourth applicant this morning . |
| 30 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |