Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Johnson 's report , the education offered by the city takes precedence over any popular descriptions or concerns , beginning with an interest in the fact that Hector Boece or Boethius became the first President of the King 's College , in 1494 , at the instigation of Bishop William Elphinstone , effectively the founder of Aberdeen University — whose tomb may still be seen . |
| 2 | However , the most notable feature of these accounts is not so much their dating , as the apparent belief in St Augustine 's , where Goscelin spent the last years of his life , that Cnut visited them both on the way to and from Rome . |
| 3 | In 1798 Breitkopf & Härtel launched the first ‘ collected edition ’ of Mozart 's works , and the first biography ( Niemetschek 's Life of Kapellmeister Wolfgang Gottlieb Mo–art written from Original Sources ) appeared in Prague . |
| 4 | Although Harriot drew the first map of the Moon as seen through the telescope , or glass , Galileo 's series of observations were the first serious scientific investigation of the Moon 's surface . |
| 5 | Thus it came about that Tanberg anticipated the second ingredient in the Fleischmann and Pons story : he introduced ‘ electrolysis ’ as a way of encouraging the hydrogen to come together . |
| 6 | It will be recalled from discussion of Table 1 , Expenditure on libraries and computing , that Strathclyde had the second lowest expenditure per student on libraries in 1986-87 . |
| 7 | The Britons have never shed barbarism ; they are proud to tell you that Tacitus said the last word about Germans . |
| 8 | Smith became a Carnegie trustee , and it was thanks to the association between the two men that Keighley became the first town in England to acquire a new Carnegie free library . |
| 9 | It is claimed that Altrincham has the second highest capital income in the country . |
| 10 | The crucial difference is that Marx emphasised the first element , while Weber emphasised the second . |
| 11 | It was twenty-five minutes after Morse had left the scene that Lewis discovered the first , fat clue : a sheet of yellow A4 paper on which the details of the Historic Cities of England Tour had been originally itemised ; and on which the time of the final item that day had been crossed through boldly in blue Biro , with the entry now reading : |
| 12 | ‘ Through the 90s , Conservative Government will draw on and be sustained by our principles to ensure that Britain enters the next millennium strong , confident , generous and free ’ John Major |
| 13 | Through the '90s , Conservative Government will draw on , and be sustained by , our principles to ensure that Britain enters the next millennium strong , confident , generous and free . |
| 14 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 15 | It is a matter of history that Austin became the first Englishman to regularly employ the new-fangled back crawl , which all swimmers use today but was then regarded as something of an eccentricity . |
| 16 | Although Laurie led the first day of the 1957 Open jointly with Eric Brown and Flory Van Donck , he was to finish out of the top twenty , Bobby Locke taking the last of his four Championship titles . |
| 17 | So it was that Huddersfield became the first club to win the Cup with a penalty . |
| 18 | they resumed this morning on 408 for 5 … the damage done although Gloucestershire took the last five wickets at a cost of just 113 runs … |
| 19 | The laws committee required four additional sittings in London and Wellington to complete the first in-depth overhaul of rugby union 's laws for four years . |
| 20 | Amy nodded , her eyes like saucers , and Kathleen remembered the first time she had worked in A and E. |
| 21 | Major Bradley of the Bryn Tyrch Hotel in Capel Curig helped the local man to acquire the skills of protective ropework , and Evan spent the Second World War training the Commandos and the Lovat Scouts to climb . |
| 22 | But the effort proved too much to sustain and Reykjavik scored the next 13 points to put the issue beyond doubt . |
| 23 | If Edgar speaks the last words , they appear a sort of reproof to Albany while Edgar assumes authority over the hopes of the future . |
| 24 | In 1964 Norah and Jean started the first Surrey regional training course . |
| 25 | Meaby and Walker reached the 17th dormy two , but missed a short putt and slipped to dormy one . |
| 26 | The same thing happened in Holland and ATS gave the next three races a miss to try to fix the problems . |
| 27 | Following the opening of the Deviation in 1978 , the rebuilding of the old line between Tan y Grisiau and Blaenau became the next major goal for the Railway . |
| 28 | Tanturi and Ivy provided the first convincing evidence for the choleretic action of the vagus by showing that stimulation of the distal end of the divided vagus caused increased secretion of bile . |
| 29 | It was a tense match with not much to choose between the two sides until Scotland scored the first try near the end of the first half . |
| 30 | But if England lose the second Test , they will need a new captain as well as a new-look team Gooch would surely not survive any longer . |