Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1822 he was commissioned as lieutenant in the 9th Royal Dragoons , transferring to the 12th Lancers in 1826 . |
| 2 | In 1900 he received a regular commission as lieutenant in the 6th battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers . |
| 3 | The 22-year-old No 8 was the key to a back row supremacy that absorbed , disheartened and ultimately destroyed Oxford 's thrust for glory in the 111th Bowring Bowl Varsity match . |
| 4 | As already described , the Saxon rebel Wittikind fled to the Danes for protection during the second conquest of Saxony in 776 . |
| 5 | By the late 1920s the nationalist government had achieved tariff autonomy and an agreement in principle to give up extraterritoriality , yet enclaves of foreign settlers , foreign interests and foreign troops ( nominally for protection of the first two ) remained . |
| 6 | It 's money for preparation for the next phase of building work which is to restore the Grand Stair and the rainwater system which has failed . |
| 7 | Those things which confer privilege ( quality shops , education , flats and health care ) are acquired through privilege in the first place ; they can not be had for money . |
| 8 | He scored 102 not out , his third ton of the tour , as India decided to use the fourth and final day of the match as preparation for the second Test , which gets under way in Johannesburg on Thursday . |
| 9 | Martyn Grimley , another Great Britain player , will be appearing for Brooklands in the Second Division . |
| 10 | ( The second vote was to be of significance only if a majority expressed a desire for change in the first . ) |
| 11 | They will be both a force for stability and a force for change in the next Parliament whatever role we play . ’ |
| 12 | Application for admission to the first year of these courses should be made on the University 's direct entry form directly to the University of Ulster . |
| 13 | For part of the second and third years , students spend six months studying Arabic in an Arabic-speaking country , and then return to continue their investigation of Islamic culture and Arabic literature of all periods . |
| 14 | The vigil in the longhouses was going to last for a day , and perhaps for part of the next night at least . |
| 15 | The day began at 10 am for rehearsals for the next production but if this proved unsuccessful , it was taken off and the new production rushed on . |
| 16 | They still did n't want both openers out for ducks in the first two overs , nor Jones to follow for 5 . |
| 17 | In the remaining insects only the basal segment contains muscles , Johnston 's organ is present and increase in the number of segments occurs through division of the 3rd segment or sometimes also of some or all of the more distal segments . |
| 18 | The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has told the Welsh Office that its plan to meet a near doubling of demand for aggregates over the next 20 years , will cause irrevocable harm to many areas of Wales ( 1 ) . |
| 19 | Lord Salmon said he could find no sensible basis for the " astonishing " proposition that the valuer should be liable for negligence in the first instance , but not in the second . |
| 20 | Matilda and Lavender , standing in a corner of the playground during morning-break on the third day , were approached by a rugged ten-year-old with a boil on her nose , called Hortensia . |
| 21 | The word ‘ object ’ amuses me because no-one talked about objects in the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | I 'm grateful , that 's for today , erm my Lord it may sound slightly more erm contentious , but I 'd also ask for certificate for counsel for the thirteenth of August hearing , may I say the reason for that , it 's a matter that has n't come before you , you wo n't know about , it 's this , this reason , because at that period it was n't just the application under twenty eighty or twenty eight , four for delay there was another application er , which was unsuccessful which has n't been proceed today , but cost were also disallowed with more serious reason , I submit that said showed er negligent or that improper conduct , there was a substantial attack mounted , and I can use no other words fairly describe it on the professional conduct of and for that reason my Lord er both cos the seriousness of the allegations , but of course also because of the potential conflict that they acted for themselves and it would of been in situation for us solicitor hence to turn up , er they instructed counsel and my self , and so for that double reason in my believe we should be entitled to at , at first stage , ordinarily I would n't of had a very good run for argument but I , it 's my suspicion my clue recollection , be backed up by those behind me , and indeed by the documents that a substantial attack was mounted and it was in , I have to say in full flight terms , and much hence could n't be said to be unreasonable to deem if necessarily , unusually to send counsel in front of a taxing master , well I wo n't say any more on the point , but that is my suspicion |
| 23 | On April 3 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) approved a standby credit of 236,000,000 special drawing rights ( US$322,000,000 ) for Czechoslovakia over the next 12 months . |
| 24 | We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months . |
| 25 | And the sketches and the readings take , er take us all through literature from the eighteenth century to present day , and they , they 're just readings and sketches from that , which I do n't , I have n't actually seen it and I do n't know what it 's going to be , but I 've every confidence that whatever Edward Fox , Dorothy Tutin and Freddie Jones do , it will be quite superb in these events |
| 26 | The all-London clash between Spurs and Chelsea at White Hart Lane saw Chelsea take the lead through Dury in the twentieth minute , and five minutes before the break , Lineker equalised for Spurs from the penalty spot ; one one , the final score line . |
| 27 | As part of the 401st Bomb Group , based at Deenethorpe , Northants , Dan and his crew took Mary Alice to bomb the aircraft factories at Oschersleben for their first mission of the war , on February 22 , 1944. finding the target obscured by overcast , the low box of the 401st bombed the secondary target of Magdeburg . |
| 28 | The Civil Aviation Committee met the next day and challenged two parts of the draft agreement that the Americans had inserted : the right of civil aircraft to use the US-leased bases in the Caribbean and Atlantic , and the right of US airlines to ‘ change gauge ’ in Britain , that is , switch to smaller aircraft for flights going on as part of the fifth freedom . |
| 29 | BBC Network Radio and BBC Radio Ulster feature a week of live programmes as part of the 29th Belfast Festival at Queen 's . |
| 30 | A different or ‘ variant issue ’ can occur as part of the first edition when , after some copies have already been published , some alteration is made and even another title-page substituted . |