Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it was that a young cosmochelonian of the Steady Gait faction , testing a new telescope with which he hoped to make measurements of the precise albedo of Great A'Tuin 's right eye , was on this eventful evening the first outsider to see the smoke rise hubward from the burning of the oldest city in the world . |
| 2 | Fastext for quick access to teletext and a full function infra-red remote control make this small portable the second set you 've been waiting for ! |
| 3 | Post-new wave inflections swap seats with blues harmonica at one moment and then strange mechanical percussion the next . |
| 4 | There is no way anyone should see Michael Mann 's splendid panoramic epic The Last Of The Mohicans , based very loosely on James Fenimore Cooper 's classic novel , on anything but the best wide screen and in full Dolby sound . |
| 5 | Little red head the first one and I remember her face |
| 6 | Baillie Scott was the progenitor of the American open plan and the most innovative interior decorator the first few decades of the twentieth century ever saw . |
| 7 | After a hearty cooked breakfast the next morning , Meryl hurried to the hall to find a good seat where she would get the best out of the professor 's lecture . |
| 8 | To someone like myself with a traditional physics-orientated education the first volume is a revelation . |
| 9 | Bengal was the first region in the Indian sub-continent to come under the British rule , and the Bengali middle class the first among the Asian intelligentsias to respond to the western presence . |
| 10 | The Fourth ( General Salza ) and , to its left , the Fifth ( General Plehve ) , faced south ; the Third Army ( General Nikolas Ruzski ) , on the Fifth Army 's left , south-west ; while on the extreme left flank the Eighth Army of General Alexei Brusilov faced due west . |
| 11 | There had been some very successful case-managed projects- the first of which was the Kent community care projects The evaluative work of David Challis and Bledyyn Davies shows that case management with devolved budgets , giving field workers much more responsibility to over resources can be very , very successful on almost every criterion . |
| 12 | Work till dinner time or something then , then we 're going down , well I 'll go in my own bloody car the next time ! |
| 13 | Whether ther there 's a there 's a t two pronged effect the first of which is that high tariffs consumption because prices are higher and therefore consumption will fall and secondly , if high prices are also charged farmers to domestic farmers right then they 'll increase their output . |