Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was counting his blessings having backed the first 3 horses that actually finished the race . |
| 2 | Flockmasters had to forget the last decade when seat-of-the-pants management brought reasonable returns from a supported market . |
| 3 | The report claimed that Khmer Rouge fighters had attacked the 5th military region 's command based in the city as well as Bek Chan airport . |
| 4 | Anterior and posterior images of 30 seconds durations were recorded at 15 minute intervals starting immediately after the subjects had ingested the first course of the meal . |
| 5 | Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated . |
| 6 | Other authors have used the second interpretation in connection with the same platforms . |
| 7 | SENIOR office-bearers in one of the Scottish National Party 's Lanarkshire branches have made the first formal call for the party leader , Alex Salmond , to resign . |
| 8 | It is obviously to the husband 's advantage in such circumstances to seek to persuade the first mortgagee to offer the wife a further advance of sufficient amount to repay the second charge . |
| 9 | But Rovers did claim the next goal to make it 2-1 . |
| 10 | But after the All Blacks had won the Second Test 59–6 Mains was rather more relaxed and in fact exuded some confidence about the prospects of his new-look team . |
| 11 | Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped . |
| 12 | By March 9 , helicopters had evacuated the 366th motorised infantry regiment from Stepanakert to Georgia . |
| 13 | But here the Common Law Courts manage to get the last word ; for they acquired the power , in the fifteenth century , to decide whether the writ is good or not , and if not , the fact that the plaintiff has got the writ will not help him . |
| 14 | Celebrations planned to commemorate the 30th anniversary of independence , on July 5 , were cancelled . |
| 15 | Ants had to play the first quarter one player short and did well to hold the Saracens to 9–9 . |
| 16 | Many no doubt sincere Christians continued to celebrate the first day of January in defiance of their clergy 's disapproval , or liked to greet the rising sun from the steps into the church , and , most of all , to attend the great festive games and shows . |
| 17 | To tie in , the BFI have launched the first of four booklets to accompany the first four movies named in the series , THE WIZARD OF OZ , DOUBLE INDEMNITY , STAGECOACH and WENT THE DAY WELL . |
| 18 | FUND-RAISERS have held the first official meeting at their new Harewood House base . |
| 19 | Moss Bros has become the first high street retailer to launch a privilege card that clocks up points towards discounts at the till , giving customers money off at the group 's stores and other outlets . |
| 20 | Some west German firms plan to spend the next three years lobbying to incorporate eastern-style flexibility into western wage deals . |
| 21 | Lawyers for the relatives have spent the last two years arguing that the Government breached Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights , which guarantees the ‘ right to life ’ . |
| 22 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 23 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 24 | My background is in publicity and public relations having spent the last ten years producing a variety of literature , press releases and editing several in-house magazines for two engineering companies — , a road machinery manufacturer and most recently which manufactures valves , pump and pipe systems for the H&V industry . |
| 25 | Taylor , from Birkenhead , Merseyside , struck one prison officer , taking his keys , and within minutes the rioters had erected the first of a labyrinth of barricades and begun systematically destroying the chapel . |
| 26 | Shetland 's rabbits have become the first in history to evolve without tails , after a bounty of 25p was offered for every tail that hunters could produce . |
| 27 | Recent accessions have included the first American edition of Joseph Black 's Lectures on the elements of Chemistry , ( Philadelphia : 1807 ) ; a Paris edition of John Barclay 's Argenis printed in 1621 , and an item believed to have been printed in Edinburgh about 1800 entitled ‘ A Pleasant Humourous and satyrical poem ’ , part one of which calls on young women to ‘ embrace the pure and holy state of matrimony ’ : part two ‘ contains excellent directions in the choice of a husband … ’ |
| 28 | One of the region 's police forces has become the first in the country to use mobile cameras in an effort to trap speeding drivers . |
| 29 | The procedures employed to conduct the second multi-agency enumeration survey were similar to those adopted in the first survey , the main differences being the need to revise the agencies employed to enumerate problem drug users ( see Parker et al . |
| 30 | Southampton v Manchester C Howard Kendall watches from the stand as his new charges attempt to resist the First Division 's most prolific attack . |