Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such aspects of Fascist economics were almost an anticipation of Labour government policy in the crises which followed the Second World War . |
| 2 | But unlike most schools which set the 2nd MB at the end of the second year of the course , before the students start their clinical studies , Southampton has moved the exam to the end of the third ( first clinical ) year . |
| 3 | The historical sketch included in Macdonald 's 1904 survey of women in the printing trades states that it was indeed the pupils of Merchant Company Schools who formed the first recruits , and that these were " a better class of girl " , sometimes described as " stickit " ( would-be ) teachers . |
| 4 | The British sweet tooth was cultivated by sugar traders who formed the third side of the triangular slave trade : British cotton goods were exported to Africa , African slaves to the West Indies and West Indian sugar to Britain . |
| 5 | From videofilms shown to reporters in Saudi Arabia , and the reports of the few journalists who spent the first days of the war in Baghdad , other successful hits can be independently verified . |
| 6 | Canoeists and boaters who use the last freely navigable river in England could soon need a licence before getting on the water . |
| 7 | As one of Wesley 's leading preachers he attended the first Methodist conference in 1744 and in 1748 promoted the system of ‘ quarterly meetings ’ to oversee the local Methodist ‘ circuits ’ ( groups of societies ) . |
| 8 | The course notes which accompanied the first ‘ Beating the Developers ’ course , are available on request . |
| 9 | The large urban local authorities which remain the last bastion of Labour power have tried to undercut New Right attacks by improving the efficiency and quality of their services , and becoming more responsive to their users ( Fenwick 1989 ; Young 1991 ) . |
| 10 | The inconsistency between the broad appeal of the Popular Front and its continued use as a tactic for ultimate Communist control is the central theme in the discussions which occupied the next four years . |
| 11 | In the history of the six generations which succeeded the first H.O . |
| 12 | The ‘ middle class ’ designation has retained some validity for so long , covering such disparate socio-economic categories , largely because of the remarkable tenacity of the amalgam of cultural values which characterised the nineteenth century middle classes : part bourgeois ( thrift , independence ) and part acquired from the aristocracy and gentry ( respectability , ‘ gentlemanly ’ behaviour ) . |
| 13 | An example may be found in Mozart 's third sentence from the Andante just quoted : This looks quite different from the previous section ( Example 26 ) , yet it is really made up of semiquaver groups which end the second sentence , with the addition of the dotted rhythm which begins the second full bar of the music . |
| 14 | It 's all good fun royal visits I mean the last |
| 15 | It will all depend on the choice to be made by the national legislatures , and in the case of countries which make the third choice the employee 's option not to transfer may give the worker no more than he or she already has under the Mikkelsen doctrine i.e. the option of going over or resigning from employment with the transferor . |
| 16 | This course allows students to extend their knowledge and understanding of the modern world , and to gain an appreciation of the elements which characterize the 19th and 20th centuries . |
| 17 | Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures . |
| 18 | They were dismayed by the crop of books and articles which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Wales 's marriage and Diana 's 30th birthday . |
| 19 | It was the visitors who created the first half 's best chance through their lively striker , Marshall . |
| 20 | In the gardens there appeared the first signs of spring : leaf-buds reappeared on the bougainvillaea and the poinsettias burst into flower . |
| 21 | In July 1940 , following France 's military defeat and occupation by the German army , Tixier-Vignancour was one of the majority of deputies who abolished the Third Republic and voted plenary powers to Marshal Petain . |
| 22 | It 's another thing that makes me wonder if the crazed geniuses who developed the first Intelloids were n't perpetrating some subtly painful joke on the human race . |
| 23 | The original station in Colombo had twin towers which housed the first and second-class booking offices at their bases . |
| 24 | We came together as a group almost by accident , but there was a convergence of our experiences and a symmetry to our ideas which made the first few months of our existence one of the most stimulating and electrifying of my life . |
| 25 | The broken promises which littered the first of Mr Lamont 's three-part adaptation of Hard Times is testimony to the depth of crisis which grips both Government and country . |
| 26 | Quite often it is the clearing banks which make the first move by announcing a base rate change before the Bank alters its intervention rates . |
| 27 | With our three kids , all under six , settled in their beds we considered the next stage , which would take us 370 miles further to our destination . |
| 28 | At the age of 39 and 105 days he becomes the ninth oldest player in history to make his Test debut in Friday 's historic encounter between South Africa and India in Durban . |
| 29 | In trying to identify future managerial changes and their impact , it is instructive to consider the nature of the changes which accompanied the second or general management wave . |
| 30 | ‘ I was always afraid of things which worked the first time . ’ |