Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 2 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 3 | Having successfully completed the first year of the new Teachers ' Training Course the students have gone away to grapple with their holiday assignments . |
| 4 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 5 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 6 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 7 | He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) . |
| 8 | The Postgraduate Diploma in Biotechnology may be taken by successfully completing the first year and a literature project . |
| 9 | The RAF Squadron which claims to have accidently dropped the first bomb on Nazi Germany , has reached the final day in its long history . |
| 10 | We continued talking for well over an hour , duly keeping the next appointment waiting . |
| 11 | The cork popped and Willi skilfully caught the first fountain in a glass . |
| 12 | On Jan. 25 , 1990 , Bhutto gave birth to a daughter ( thereby becoming the first head of government to give birth while in office ) ; the withdrawal of the Prime Minister from public life during the latter months of her pregnancy increased the aura of indecisiveness surrounding the government , particularly as the Cabinet had offered its resignation in mid-November ( see p. 37043 ) . |
| 13 | Doi , 62 , had been elected leader of the SDPJ ( then named the Japan Socialist Party — see below ) in 1986 , thereby becoming the first woman in Japan to head a major political party . |
| 14 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
| 15 | ‘ For two years I lived with a girl named Susan , who I wrote ‘ Medicine Bottle ’ ( 'Down Colorful Hill ’ 's harrowing stand-out ) about , ’ he says , circuitously explaining the next album . |
| 16 | In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly , and herein lies the first problem for the researcher . |
| 17 | She fussed , gave advice which she laughingly contradicted the next minute , and talked enthusiastically about the business she had just initiated . |
| 18 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
| 19 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 20 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 21 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
| 22 | I 'd come so far without looking from side to side , only seeing the next qualification up , that by the time I began to feel closed in it was too late . |
| 23 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |
| 24 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 25 | However , as we shall see , in other modes , because does not necessarily introduce the first event . |
| 26 | He scored a grade A in his maths ‘ O ’ Level and naturally entered the sixth form where he flourished . |
| 27 | More immediate preoccupations were the domestic economic problems ( inflation , budget deficits , and trade deficits ) which had long eroded the Fourth Republic 's popularity , not to mention French national self-esteem . |
| 28 | NO ONE was brave enough to grant the last wish of remarkable 11-year-old Kelly Good . |
| 29 | I was still gingerly buffing the first sentence |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , if you 've now decided that you are n't prepared to look after Emma and Sophie , if you do n't care about their future welfare or happiness , then I suggest you 'd better catch the next plane back to England . ’ |