Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some universities , such as Cambridge and Nottingham , divide first degree courses into ‘ Part I ’ and ‘ Part II ’ , the former usually but not always occupying the first two years , with some transfer between subjects possible at the second stage . |
| 2 | the Vendor shall be under no liability in respect of any of the Warranties unless the Vendor shall have been given written notice by the Purchaser of a specific breach of the Warranties prior to the second anniversary of Completion ; |
| 3 | ONE SOURCE of solace to the so far disappointing New Zealand tourists , who have a last chance at Leeds tomorrow to silence the doubters prior to the first Test next Saturday , must be the rate at which Great Britain 's best players are falling by the wayside . |
| 4 | ‘ Then all we can do is keep our eyes open for the next couple of days , and you see that your doors are locked and bolted at night . ’ |
| 5 | Vaccines against measles , polio , whooping cough and other killing infections prevalent in the third world are much more sensitive , however . |
| 6 | The visitors lethargic in the first half were very energetic in the second . |
| 7 | It has become usual that there should be a generally drafted indemnity against all taxation liabilities arising from trading transactions prior to the last balance sheet date and which were not provided for in such accounts , or which arose from transactions outside the ordinary course of business since that date . |
| 8 | The machine , thirty feet long on the first floor of the new building had overheated . |
| 9 | Georgian federation president Nukri Kakilashvili said on Saturday the club would be contesting the allegations that officials bribed the referee and linesmen prior to the first leg game between Tbilisi and Linfield in Georgia nearly three weeks ago . |
| 10 | As a system for payment and the organization of underground practice , it was undoubtedly in decline during the decades prior to the Second World War , but the historical legacy of the butty and its ramifications permeated the lives of the miners . |
| 11 | The first of these is to establish the geographical pattern , at the national and local scales , and the land types of areas afforested during the last decade . |
| 12 | In Brussels , European Community farm ministers have agreed to leave the milk production quotas of most member states unchanged for the next 12 months pending a review next month . |
| 13 | It is out this month on Sequent and Sun hardware , with Data General , HP9000 and IBM RS/6000 versions due in the second quarter . |
| 14 | All the ideas expressible in the second can be reproduced in the first , but , for instance , the notions of disjunction ( v ) and implication ( 6 ) and negation ( * ) which occur in the first can not be expressed in the second . |
| 15 | And they , I do n't know what you 'll think , but they reckon they spend at least two to three days average in the first week of the new month purely doing new reports . |
| 16 | Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £195 for the day classes and £171 for evening classes payable during the first few weeks of the course . |
| 17 | In the twenty years prior to the First World War there were numerous incidents of football hooliganism . |
| 18 | The German scheme of cheap overnight accommodation dated from the years prior to the First World War and had its origin in the central European tradition of ‘ wanderlust ’ . |
| 19 | In the years prior to the Second World War , a small group of pioneers had spent long periods exploring the Libyan desert in vehicles . |
| 20 | Their only daughter Olive followed her father to an early grave as the result of the same complaint which was such a terrible scourge during the years prior to the Second World War . |
| 21 | Now the Big Daddy of them all … the astonishing revelation that the Georgians had attempted to bribe Turkish match officials prior to the first leg game . |
| 22 | They rejected the Georgians ' argument that the 5,000 dollars given to match officials prior to the first leg game was legitimate expenses and reinforced the judgement that Tbilisi be expelled from this season 's competition and the next one they qualify for . |
| 23 | For many weeks prior to the first of February we attempted to get a district council , a Labour council to agree that should apply in the case . |
| 24 | Tivoli Systems Inc is porting its Management Environment from Solaris 1.1 to 2.1 , expecting it to be ready by the second quarter , with all applications available by the third quarter . |
| 25 | DEC expects to have production-quality Alpha PCs ready in the first quarter and will be sending them out to ISVs before the end-user version of Microsoft Corp Windows NT becomes available . |
| 26 | The body was left in an open state for several hours prior to the second stage , when the thorax and abdomen were removed and placed in water . |
| 27 | The second one ( EP1242L ) codes for a protein of 1242 amino acids similar to the second largest RNA polymerase subunit . |
| 28 | Trusting to things mechanical for the second time today , he sank below on a hydraulic platform designed for wheelchairs . |
| 29 | How do you fancy paying twenty pounds extra for the second set ? |
| 30 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |