Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the states for which the nineteenth century had been a success story , Germany and still more Great Britain , showed little or nothing of the desire for officially-backed dissemination of their culture and advertisement of their intellectual achievements which was so noticeable in France . |
| 2 | Compounds in which the first element is a number in some form also tend to have final stress : |
| 3 | These were Kirsty 's opening words to me the first time I saw her . |
| 4 | Shem 's family comes last , as these are the nations around which the next stage of the narrative develops . |
| 5 | The first and second layer spacing is obtained similarly from α c measured along directions for which the first and second layer atoms lie in the same place . |
| 6 | Most notably these have included , first , a concern with income distribution and the need to combat ‘ absolute ’ poverty , triggered by McNamara in 1973 ; and second , the need to finance the trade deficits , and consequent ‘ adjustment ’ , of the many African countries for whom the second oil price rise of 1979 was a near fatal blow . |
| 7 | To do so means asking some questions about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the male compositors " trade union , the Scottish Typographical Association ( STA ) and in particular its Edinburgh branch , the Edinburgh Typographical Society ( ETS ) ; about the potential recruits for strike-breaking , whether these were non-union men , apprentice boys or women and girls ; and about the circumstances in which the first women crossed the threshold of Messrs Constable 's and Chambers 's offices in December 1872 or January 1873 . |
| 8 | Yes , I 'd just like to emphasize the point of the last er refusal , which , I 've got a copy here , would be over bearing , out of scale with the adjacent residential property , detrimental to the amenity of adjacent occupiers , and I see no , I know we 're not talking about an appeal at this stage , we 're talking about another application , I personally see no change whatsoever to the circumstances in which the last application was refused , these properties , totally out of proportion , and totally overpowering and overbearing for that entrance to the village |
| 9 | Also here is the tomb of San Saccaria , the founder of the Barnabites for whom the first church was built . |
| 10 | There are 7–8 simple glassy arm spines of which the second dorsalmost is the longest , up to 3 arm segments long . |
| 11 | ‘ And then set your thugs on me the first time my back 's turned . |
| 12 | Compound nouns in which the second element denotes an agent or an action may have for their first element a noun denoting the object of the action : housekeeper , housekeeping . |
| 13 | There are three essentially different ways in which the first step can be influenced . |
| 14 | It is then developed in seven statements to a climactic definition of the nature of the fire of love ; they are brought to a triumphant conclusion by juxtaposing a negative statement with its positive form to indicate ways in which the third degree of singular love fulfils and transcends the longing of the earlier stages : The phrase from The Song of Songs ( 5:2 ) which heralds the arrival of the beloved , here conveys a sense of a transformed newly awakened consciousness where longing and the unquiet ego are quenched . |
| 15 | It is also illustrated in the ‘ doubling ’ technique of using double exposures in which the first shot is read , not photographically , but as a signifying element whose referent is the second shot ( Krauss 1985b , p. 109 ) . |
| 16 | It is also illustrated in the ‘ doubling ’ technique of using exposures in which the first shot is read , not photographically , but as a signifying element whose referent is the second shot . |
| 17 | Enteroscopy has identified small intestinal lesions in a further 30–40% of patients in whom the first line investigations were normal . |
| 18 | That 's er eight in seven games for him the last seven . |
| 19 | Some genera have high spires , with many turns of the shell visible externally , others have low , broad spires in which the last whorl overlaps the earlier ones . |
| 20 | Since they were flourishing during the period when the land was invaded and since they certainly possessed limb-like fins , it seemed likely that they were the creatures from which the first land vertebrates were descended . |
| 21 | It brought closer Home Office control and local authority subsidy to reformatories for children for whom the first resort of probation had either failed or was thought inappropriate . |
| 22 | He would then have to plead that the loss was attributable to the third party 's professional negligence in failing to draw the attention of the plaintiffs to what the third defendant and others were doing . |
| 23 | It is acceptable to use the same name as someone else if it is used for a different class of goods or services to the ones for which the first mark is registered . |
| 24 | This second bacterial pattern was only seen associated with a degenerated epithelium presenting with few apical mucoid granules , fewer microvilli , cytoplasmic vacuolisations , and absence of mucus layer , and it was found in all the ultrastructural sections in which the second or third pattern of contact with gastric epithelium was present ( sections from biopsy specimens of 31 patients ) . |
| 25 | He became aware of the consequences to himself the next day . |
| 26 | The law is not entirely clear in this area , but it would appear that there are two grounds upon which the third party , the tippee , may be held liable to account as constructive trustee . |
| 27 | These are the Fieldnames but in many spreadsheets the cells in which the first row of data is entered are just as important , if not more so than the names themselves . |