Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun pl] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was annoyance when it was learned that the claims had first appeared in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal , both prominent business dailies , not refereed scientific journals . |
| 2 | It requires a deliberate mental effort to turn biology the right way up again , and remind ourselves that the replicators come first , in importance as well as in history . |
| 3 | They should be learnt and practised until the procedures become second nature . |
| 4 | I mean we 've got kids and the kids got to come first and the adults come second |
| 5 | During the year to mid-1991 by-elections were held in Knowsley on Sept. 27 , 1990 ( held by Labour with an increased percentage over the Conservatives ) ; in Eastbourne on Oct. 18 , ( won by the Liberal Democrats — see p. 37784 ) ; in Bootle and Bradford on Nov. 8 , and in Paisley North and Paisley South on Nov. 29 ( when Labour retained all four seats ; in the Scottish constituencies the SNP advanced from fourth to second ) ; in Ribble Valley on March 7 , 1991 ( won by the Liberal Democrats — see p. 38110 ) ; in Neath on April 4 ( when Labour retained the seat despite a large swing to Plaid Cymru — see p. 38200 ) ; in Monmouth on May 16 ( when Labour won the seat from the exports — $2,500 ) ; and in Liverpool Walton on July 4 ( when Labour retained the seat and the Conservatives came fourth — see p. 38355 ) . |
| 6 | Eventually things even themselves out , as the salt spreads itself evenly between them ; but this takes time , and the movements occur first . |
| 7 | Perhaps it 's a case of money talking and the fans coming second . |
| 8 | Whereas the Europeans aimed first and foremost at obtaining more brilliant jewels , the Indians were evidently constrained by the requirement to conserve the maximum weight of diamond and therefore aimed to cut more numerous and shallower facets to form a more dome-like gem . |
| 9 | He interrogates everyone : a Rouen merchant who amazes him by not having heard of mint sauce , and a canon of Evreux who informs him that in France the men read too much , while the women read next to nothing ( o rarer still Emma Bovary ! ) . |
| 10 | A small army of council workers and private companies were called in to change hundreds of locks after the keys disappeared last week . |
| 11 | A small army of council workers and private companies were called in to change hundreds of locks after the keys disappeared last week . |
| 12 | A host of big names will be on the critical list when the wards reopen next Saturday . |
| 13 | When the Clarets lost last year 's final Joe O'Sullivan ( below , right ) was the victorious manager . |
| 14 | His ban follows a complaint by Warrington , who claimed their Australian forward Bob Jackson was injured as a result of a deliberate kick by Jones that went unnoticed by the referee when the teams met last month . |
| 15 | When the Demidovs had first built mines and smelting works in the hills , they had been fortified and special permission was obtained from the government for the industrialists to hire a private army for protection . |
| 16 | If only she 'd had the courage to tell him she wanted to end their relationship when the cracks had first started to appear . |
| 17 | Jan Hurak , from Poland , who was third last year , does not believe that anyone will run away from the field , as the Russians did last year . |
| 18 | And there could be a protest vote , there will be a protest vote , as the greens knew last time , and we to our sadness found out last time . |
| 19 | The extended families are split up as the men move first , to be followed only after a fairly long interval by wives and children and often never by other relatives . |
| 20 | Well , as the pollsters discovered last week , people are wonderfully , maddeningly more complicated than that . |