Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second theme that I 'd like to deal with which more or less incorporates the third is the theme of people changing as well as how appearances can be deceiving . |
| 2 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 3 | Apart from the military and administrative functions of the town , which included offices for collecting taxes from native and Russian alike , there was the beginning of a perish structure established by Orthodox clergy who had accompanied or soon followed the first government forces . |
| 4 | or even offset the next ice age . |
| 5 | You may choose to use initials for something which is mentioned frequently or simply to write the first half of the word . |
| 6 | You may move up , down or horizontally to find the next letter but not diagonally . |
| 7 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 8 | It 's you that normally wins the first hand and me for the rest . |
| 9 | But their most famous victory , over the black Conservative John Taylor in Cheltenham , was clouded by suggestions of racism , and as our Political Editor Peter Hayes reports it was racism that also overshadowed the first day of the conference . |
| 10 | Then let us hope that here endeth the second lesson . ’ |
| 11 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 12 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 13 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 14 | In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly , and herein lies the first problem for the researcher . |
| 15 | DEC specialist , $100m-a-year Micro Technology Inc , has acquired five-year-old SF2 Corporation , the Sunnyvale , California-based firm that pioneered and commercially shipped the first fault tolerant disk array storage device known as RAID 5/6 . |
| 16 | In parts of India , goats graze the cotton after harvest and so remove the last few infested bolls and stalks . |
| 17 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 18 | The purpose of such an approach would be to demonstrate that the second language has the same potential for use as the first language , encourage learners to draw on their own experience of language by applying familiar procedures to the interpretation of second language use , and so to teach the second language system not as an end in itself but as a resource for the achievement of meaning . |
| 19 | It is because of the fact that they total to four , and so include the fourth , climactic one , that Yahweh 's punishment falls . |
| 20 | The good news here is that because the suppliers have to sell large numbers of a low-cost product to recover development costs and so fund the next round of products — despite what Atex claim when they make their conference pitches — these companies have a distinct interest in making the products better , cheaper and faster . |
| 21 | Because they 're almost there — unlike previous white soul or funk aspirants like Kevin Rowland or A Certain Ratio who fell so far shod of their ambitions they inadvertently created something different , these groups have , through graft and expense , come close , and so clog the second division of pop-soul . |
| 22 | I think to myself that I can serve in opposition , make my case and perhaps win the next election , so I accept the result . |
| 23 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |
| 24 | I avoided M.O.D saturday evening ( WHY have the cameras for our worst home result since about 1980 ? ? ? ? ) , and only caught the last 3 goals on the Sky roundup on sunday . |
| 25 | He scored a grade A in his maths ‘ O ’ Level and naturally entered the sixth form where he flourished . |
| 26 | Bob and Florence and er John and Rose and Stan and Doreen and the three of them and I are , are just very happy to be here and together to represent the Hundredth Group and what remains of it in the United States . |
| 27 | We assume that graduates will do and say things in a considered way and not proffer the first thing that occurs to them . |
| 28 | This involves careful planning in building up contacts and nurturing them and not taking the first ‘ no ’ for an answer . |
| 29 | And not to benefit the first marriage and not to benefit any of the children . |
| 30 | Bemoaning the corrupting influence of ‘ Americanisation ’ , and already reading the last rites over the decomposing virtues of English civility and order , Arnold 's influential Culture and Anarchy ( 1869 ) was regularly punctuated with fearful glimpses of ‘ a multitude of miserable , sunken , and ignorant human beings ’ in the city slums . |