Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pattern shop was a haven of relative peace and quiet , reminiscent of cottage industry , a place where carpenters fashioned the wooden shapes that contributed the first stage of the moulding process . |
| 2 | It walks on only five of its legs and holds the sixth out stiffly behind it so that it appears to have a sting projecting from the tip of its abdomen . |
| 3 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
| 4 | Go down the two ladders and enter the second door , walk down the steps and onto the stage , then it 's under the spotlight to perform all those great songs the Blues Brothers are famous for . |
| 5 | H. P. I 've seen inspectors go round the police huts and examine the First Aid Kit . |
| 6 | The millionaire property developer looked poised to cut his losses and quit the Second Division club after the failure of his proposed £13m rescue package last week . |
| 7 | The refuge worker suggests ringing up the council to check the arrears and clarify the next move . |
| 8 | I retraced my steps and climbed the second flight of stairs . |
| 9 | The fractional-order beam intensities can be written , by analogy with holography , as It can be shown that the first and second terms are actually the squares of amplitudes of scattered waves , and their major components have lower frequencies than do the third and the last terms , and can therefore be suppressed ( refs 8 , 14 ; P.H. and D.A.K. , unpublished results ) . |
| 10 | But it was neither safety , monopoly nor dangerous debt loads that precipitated the first major intervention in the industry by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner last week . |
| 11 | Lakatos offers Marxism and Freudian psychology as programmes that satisfy the first criterion but do not satisfy the second , and modern sociology as a programme that perhaps satisfies the second but does not satisfy the first . |
| 12 | One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless . |
| 13 | ‘ A place with corners that resemble the Third World ’ was his verdict this year on the city 's mixture of new private affluence and public squalor , its Mafia-like interest groups and its grotesque inefficiencies . |
| 14 | While the company has still not announced how much vendors will have to pay in royalties on top of the $400,000 licence fee for buying the 135,000 lines of code , it did say that royalties had been reduced significantly , and the second release of the code will be free to those companies that buy the first . |
| 15 | The biggest Complication of mid-Cretaceous times were the circumstances that produced the first great spasm of the Alpine orogeny . |
| 16 | Reviewing the four decades that followed the Second World War , Rowthorn and Wells concluded : |
| 17 | He looked up , removed his reading glasses , then got to his feet and indicated the second sofa . |
| 18 | It is thought one pin may have failed on the El Al flight , causing an engine to tear free of its mountings and hit the second engine as it fell . |
| 19 | Attach six around the roof at equal intervals and place the seventh in the centre at the top . |
| 20 | ‘ I am fasting because I see no other way to express my protest against the ways in which our politicians brazenly keep up appearances and celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the state as their victory . |
| 21 | She wrote it as a series of articles and sent the first three to Richard Crossman , then editor of the New Statesman . |
| 22 | Children make progress at various speeds at different ages and by watching their activities and offering the next stage when they are ready for it teachers can give them the breadth of experience that will make the formal work of later years more meaningful . |
| 23 | ACT 2 , STRATEGIES AND TRAPS The second and final part of this series reviews a number of basic ACT planning stategies and potential traps |
| 24 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |
| 25 | The book of Genesis tells how God had created the world in six days and commanded the seventh to be a day of rest . |
| 26 | The pain faded , and I pulled myself up immediately with the help of the banisters and gained the second floor in the lull . |
| 27 | ( ii ) Familiar faces The same presenter will introduce the programme each week and may appear between items to give explanations and introduce the next sequence . |
| 28 | Later Caroline specialised in Special Needs classes and introduced the first class to help stroke victims . |
| 29 | When linguists became involved , with a few notable exceptions , it was mainly to distance themselves from this current of ideas and to introduce the second phase . |
| 30 | From the late eighteenth century the rise of the cotton industry not only reversed the long relative decline in the importance of textile exports but pushed the first industrial nation , if not in an entirely new direction , at least up a much steeper path . |