Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 32 | The Vale of White Horse district council has become the first to set its Poll Tax at £412 . |
| 33 | Leatherhead Sports Council has marked the tenth year of the Society 's association with the Leatherhead Leisure Centre with an award in recognition of the work done by teachers there . |
| 34 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 35 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 36 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 37 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 38 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 39 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 40 | The announcement on the morning of 22 November of Mrs Thatcher 's decision to resign came as a dramatic surprise to the public because , up to that point , all the outward signs had been that she intended to stick to her initial resolve to contest the second ballot . |
| 41 | Is my child to have taken the first step with this opera for nothing … . |
| 42 | We talked of Partition and the how the old princess had thrown the last family heirlooms — a series of beautiful inlaid jade daggers down the haveli well , in case the police arrested them for possessing offensive weapons . |
| 43 | First , the gurus argued , this slump had produced the first fall in house prices since the early 1950s . |
| 44 | Do n't you remember the canteen lady leaving to get the last tram ? ’ |
| 45 | In effect , even those who move across the margins into CID work have produced the first structural crack in the preferred coherent model of uniformed and unitary policing . |
| 46 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 47 | Liberal attempts to find a middle way between radical demands for outright confiscation of noble land and conservative rejection of land reform failed to save the Second Duma . |
| 48 | A THEME park on the former Windsor Safari Park site has cleared the first planning hurdle . |
| 49 | There are other reasons why capitalism needs to exploit the Third World , according to Lenin . |
| 50 | The Royal Society of Chemistry has published the fifth edition of McCance and Widdowson 's The composition of foods . |
| 51 | This switch in the attitudes of the medical establishment has removed the last justification ( if there ever was one ) for cruel factory farming practices . |
| 52 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 53 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 54 | Western drug enforcement agents are trying to persuade the Bhutto government to enter , but such a move threatens to spill the first blood of Benazir 's fledgling democracy . |
| 55 | The Liberal government before the First World War had made the first tentative steps in the introduction of old-age pensions ( 1908 ) and national health and unemployment insurance ( 1911 ) . |
| 56 | In a flurry of seminars both in the US and in Europe members of the team have presented the first results from the experiment . |
| 57 | Armed envoys of Life President Dr Hastings Banda had apprehended Chakufwa Chihana , the British-educated trade union leader mandated to sow the first seeds of a Malawi spring , and the Catholic church , a powerful ally , had fallen silent . |
| 58 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |
| 59 | Although with treatment they made gains in growth at least comparable with other patients , 59% ( 10 of 17 ) followed up to maturity failed to reach the third centile for adult height . |
| 60 | Barenboim has identified the First Symphony of the 54-year-old Corigliano as a work of great courage , and it was equally brave of him to take it on tour . |