Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness . |
| 2 | In Dusun , for example , two different sequence particles are used in the verb phrases — one in the first clause an a different one in the second clause . |
| 3 | Such questions go well beyond the scope of this book , but they point us away from the epistemological frame of reference of this chapter towards the socio-cultural one of the next . |
| 4 | Was this one of the first disco records ? |
| 5 | I think this one of the last of them now . |
| 6 | Data from one patient at the first stage and another one at the second stage and from two volunteers had to be excluded because of appreciable probe drift , apparent at probe calibration after the test . |
| 7 | Working-class voters had already elected one Labour government in 1923 and following the General Strike they elected another one at the first opportunity in 1929 . |
| 8 | I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian . |
| 9 | There was always another one around the next pyramid . |
| 10 | Official starter Ivor Robson seldom makes mistakes but had to admit to an enforced one in the first match when instructed to let Ian Woosnam take the honour with partner Nick Faldo , playing against Curtis Strange in the opening Foursomes . |
| 11 | The role of film licences has become an increasingly prominent one in the last few years . |
| 12 | Buying was dealer dominated , with a London dealer scooping up three of the top 10 lots in the second session . |
| 13 | The trip to Gdynia , Poland to me was a remarkable one by the Eighth Airforce because of the distance involved and the location of the target that was hit in the daytime . |
| 14 | In a house facing there and her son was one of then Caernarfon er what do you call them er militia like and they had to go talking with me and a little One of the first little motor cars like this . |
| 15 | In fact they were partial letters of rubescent neon repeated over and over again that blinked past too quickly to separate each one from the next fragment . |
| 16 | The subject of travel concessions has been a controversial one for the last few months . |
| 17 | Should a phase generally be gratifying he will successfully pass through that one to the next ; should it be frustrating he will remain fixated at this stage and as an adult manifest a particular personality constellation , such as the ‘ oral character ’ , distinguished by such features as excessive dependence , passivity and ‘ mouth habits ’ . |
| 18 | He missed five putts of around six feet and that one at the first . |
| 19 | And he said , are you still doing that one on the twentieth of March ? |
| 20 | Ah , that one on the second floor . |
| 21 | So that few minutes at the end is important for picking up these extra marks you 've been trying to throw away , okay , where you can do it , and the few minutes at the beginning is to look through and find that question wherever it was , that one on the last page . |
| 22 | That was my husband 's favourite so I 'm keeping that one till the last . |
| 23 | I 'm keeping that one till the last , was what she 'd told Carrie . |
| 24 | The Oxenhope Straw Race has a long way to go before it reaches its centenary , but the aims of the people who organise it and take part are the same as those who in the nineteenth century began the hospital sings at Holmfirth and Mapplewell . |
| 25 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 26 | God in the middle contending for the world , a man on his left choosing to side with the Evil One till the last , and on the right a thief who with his last gasp offered his broken solidarity back to God for healing and restoration . |
| 27 | Similarly the italicised we in the third line of the fourth stanza . |
| 28 | At the moment this innovatory scheme was still at the planning stage , but once it got off the ground I could n't fail to gross a minimum of fifty thou in the first year of operation , after which the sky was the limit . |
| 29 | Respectable workers were rewarded with the vote , and in 1868 the Royal Commission on Trade Unions recommended the extension of legal protection for trade unions , which was achieved in the Trade Union Act of 1871 which for the first time gave legal protection to Trade Union funds and the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1875 which legalized peaceful picketing . |
| 30 | Two letters , one for the first one for the fifteenth . |