Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 2 | Huge crowds flock from East and West to see the second half of the artist 's career |
| 3 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 4 | The upper field displays the next page number to be inspected , if one exists . |
| 5 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 6 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 7 | On Nov. 27 the Federal Court ruled that the half-canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden should grant women the vote at cantonal and communal level with immediate effect , a decision breaching the last bastion of all-male suffrage in Europe . |
| 8 | Angel One landed lightly alongside the still twitching body of his victim and immediately re-aligned his fighting stance , facing in the opposite direction to meet the next attack . |
| 9 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 10 | An attempt to include such a ban sank the last effort at constitutional reform , made by Congress in 1989 . |
| 11 | His is the only war grave in the churchyard adjoining the 11th century church at Colleville-sur-Mer . |
| 12 | Oak woodland covers the next stretch of hillside on the right and leads on to the Forestry Commission conifer forest . |
| 13 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |
| 14 | The research represents the second stage of cross-national collaborative studies undertaken by colleagues working in education in a number of countries . |
| 15 | When a Labour-Lib Dem partnership wins the next election , for the sake of the people and the country damn well work together . |
| 16 | The deal represents the last part of GrandMet 's £550m disposal of Express . |
| 17 | In August 1980 the DUC produced the second issue of their bulletin STOP . |
| 18 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 19 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 20 | In 1970 , the Library Association produced the first set of specific standards for school libraries that Great Britain had ever had , embodying the library 's new name , and including an analysis of implications for finance , planning , staffing and service which was immediately recognized as being incomplete . |
| 21 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 22 | Leonard 's switch represents the second change of heart by the Lions ' management in the last week . |
| 23 | American war photographer Chris Morris recently took a rare break to attend the second festival of photojournalism in Perpignan where he spoke to Ted Welch about his images and his time in Iraq . |
| 24 | He recently took a rare break to attend the second festival of photojournalism in Perpignan where he spoke to Ted Welch about his time in Iraq . |
| 25 | On Nov. 22 the United States issued invitations to Israel , Lebanon , Syria and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation to attend the next phase of the Middle East peace talks in Washington on Dec. 4 . |
| 26 | The exodus of East Germans continued : 18,000 streamed into West Germany before their country took belated action to plug the last hole in its borders by requiring visas for all future trips to Czechoslovakia . |
| 27 | If there 's a handy tree , wall or fence to provide the third leg , rest against it : this will increase your camera steadiness quite dramatically . |
| 28 | There were no indications that the original hypothesis was incorrect ( ie that the information requirements of an organisation could be derived by the progressive decomposition of a primary task model ) , and the study entered the next phase of deciding how the information base could be used in practice . |
| 29 | Further rioting occurred the next day when Douglas Hurd , the Home Secretary , visited the area . |
| 30 | This engaging puppy , featured on the 37p stamp , helped the Royal Mail celebrate the 150th anniversary of the R.S.P.C.A. |