Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And essay , write an essay on this , that or the next thing , at the weekend . |
| 2 | A man who became 40 just before or just after 1 January 1986 is much more likely to contribute a death to the numerator than a man who became 40 in the early days of 1985 or the last days of 1986 . |
| 3 | Yeltsin announced at the meeting in Minsk on Dec. 30 that the first channel of Central Television would be given over to the Commonwealth , the second would be Russian , the third would be Moscow Television and the fourth would be an educational channel . |
| 4 | It is clear that the first year of the scheme has brought a wide range of benefits to patients , and that has been confirmed by independent evaluation by Professor Glennerster at the London school of economics . |
| 5 | Oliver 's serenade will introduce us to Vitellia and Sesto , Annio and Servillia , and the Emperor Titus — ‘ and it will be clear that the first couple have a really terrible time , and that the second pair have a really nice time , and that the last gent , the one who does n't get married at the end , has to reconcile the emotions of the other four in himself . ’ |
| 6 | Applying Lord Bridge 's guiding principles it is clear that the first question to be determined in this appeal is what were the transactions which produced the profit to the taxpayer . |
| 7 | Nothing can be more exciting than the first time that you are given some flowers , and particularly red roses . |
| 8 | Now , does n't that sound a whole lot more exciting than the next Prodigy video ? |
| 9 | A gradual decline is evident until the records cease in November 1872 although the last entry was " to take immediate steps to prepare for the Soiree . " |
| 10 | What about the form United have never been further than the 4th round . |
| 11 | And it was a lot easier than the first time . |
| 12 | Also important is the limited availability of alternative sources for retailer 2 once the first agreement is signed . |
| 13 | In the event , a ) turns out to be peculiar insofar as this if the fourth time Eszterhas has reworked the basic theme of Jagged Edge ( see Betrayed and Music Box ) , of an authority figure hero suspecting that one of their nearest and dearest is responsible for appalling crimes . |
| 14 | As we saw earlier , in this and the first chapter , this theory holds that things are a combination of form and matter , and it is by appeal to their form that one would hope to explain why things have the properties they do . |
| 15 | Unfortunately such a solution is rarely available and in this and the next chapter we shall examine ways of ‘ solving ’ such problems , which are typically grouped together under the title multiple-objective or multiple-criterion problems . |
| 16 | This section is designed to explain briefly the operation of various exchange rate arrangements , before we analyse in more depth in this and the next chapter how the type of exchange rate system influences the adjustment mechanism . |
| 17 | Many of the effects described in this and the next chapter depend on the optical step-printer which is a ‘ one-frame-at-a-time ’ printer , as opposed to continuous run past a light-admitting slit as used to produce duplicates ( 'dupes ' ) and release prints . |
| 18 | The picture which is offered in this and the next chapter is not fully comprehensive and depends partly upon the knowledge of some of the Commission 's members , and partly upon the submissions and correspondence which were received . |
| 19 | In this and the next chapter I am going to tell two different stories . |
| 20 | In this and the next chapter we want to critically explore three broad perspectives on the significance of parties and pressures in British politics . |
| 21 | The complete torque/speed characteristic can be divided into several regions , which are discussed separately in this and the next chapter . |
| 22 | The B & B approach described in preceding sections can be adapted to a much wider class of problems than integer programming , and in this and the next section we will offer two examples . |
| 23 | In this and the next section we consider general ideas and illustrate them with various flows ( depending largely on the best illustrations available ) . |
| 24 | If a rationale is used it should be before the command so that the command itself is clear and the last thing in the child 's mind . |
| 25 | This seems to indicate that after a fairly steady climb and a certain standstill in the late 1880s , the numbers really took off in the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 26 | The sense of moral crisis and social discontinuity reflected here was deeply characteristic of late Victorian and Edwardian society , and from the late 1890s until the First World War there was a flood of such accusations against the youth . |
| 27 | The judges of the royal courts and such major officers of state as the Lord Treasurer , the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Keeper , the Lord Admiral , and the Secretaries of State held by royal pleasure or during good behaviour throughout the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries . |
| 28 | It was , after all , the conquest and settlement of Siberia in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries which more than anything else — at least in terms of territorial aggrandizement — originally transformed the land-locked mediaeval Tsardom of Muscovy into the mighty Russian Empire , giving the government in Moscow and then St Petersburg virtually unchallenged , absolute sway over the whole of northern Eurasia and its polyglot peoples . |
| 29 | Lam exhibitions have been mounted this month at The Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid ( until 14 December and then travelling to the Fundació Miró in Barcelona , 21 January–28 March , 1993 ) , the Villa Medici in Rome , the home of the French Academy ( until 24 January 1993 and the first show of the artist 's work in Italy ) and in New York . |
| 30 | Availability on the high-end 75 and 85 models will be the first half of 1993 and the second half of the year for entry-level and mid-range 15s , 35s and 65s . |