Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have some hesitation about accepting the second leg of the ratio decidendi in the circumstances but that is certainly the way in which Fox L.J . |
| 2 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 3 | Defender Kenny Goodrick could return to face his old club after missing the last three games because of injury , but striker Chris Pickford is doubtful . |
| 4 | COLCHESTER sailor Richard Merriweather has told of the trials of the deep after completing the third leg of a round-the-world yacht race . |
| 5 | As we sat in the ATV canteen after recording the first eight episodes of The Power Game , he said : ‘ Think of all the fame stored up in those rolls of tape . |
| 6 | The vertical distance between the marginal social cost MSC and the marginal social benefit as given by DD shows the marginal social loss of producing the last output unit . |
| 7 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 8 | When he returned to Oxford in 1773 it was with the intention of claiming the first suitable benefice in the gift of New College to become vacant . |
| 9 | Let us restrict ourselves to square matrices ; then premultiplication of any matrix A by unc has the effect of interchanging the ith and jth rows of A ; postmultiplication of A by unc interchanges the ith and jth columns . |
| 10 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 11 | It was for this reason that he felt compelled to offer the Liberals the alternative vote , an electoral system which would have the effect of entrenching the third party as part of the political system . |
| 12 | Maginn spent the rest of his life as a dedicated missioner in Belfast , where in 1888 he had the pleasure of becoming the first superintendent of the Mission Hall for the Adult Deaf and Dumb which was opened that year by Miss Wilhelmina Frederick . |
| 13 | Weaver had practised his right-hand script before scrawling the first note to Jack Stone . |
| 14 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 15 | It comes as no coincidence that Juan , who first pioneered electro in the early '80s as part of Cybertron before making the first Detroit records on Model 500 , took his hiatus from the arena when it had become an overcrowded circus . |
| 16 | Slavery is the key to unlocking the third chamber of Kane 's theorem about why blacks excel in sport : ‘ Of all the physical and psychological theories about the American black 's excellence in sport , none has proved more controversial than one of the least discussed : that slavery weeded out the weak ’ ( Kane , 1971 , p.80 ) . |
| 17 | This project thus aims to fill an important gap by providing the first comprehensive study of policing in Ireland from the 1830s to the 1920s . |
| 18 | This indicates that chewing and swallowing at least start to bring our bodily eating controls into action by sending the first satiety signals to the brain — and that the more chewing and swallowing we do the more effective this is likely to be . |
| 19 | Having the added bonus of a symbiosis with Richard Martin , but with the advantage of handling the first few episodes himself , Barry 's memory is of an intensely creative period in the weeks before his first studio session on ‘ The Daleks ’ . |
| 20 | Pete 's starting to sing kind of mumbling the first two lines and all of a sudden she goes on christmas day . |
| 21 | The only trouble was that in the course of compiling the second inventory the missing artworks were found in a cupboard in one of the museum 's corridors . |
| 22 | In particular , simplification of the design of such ladder filters through the technique of loading the last section with the characteristic impedance was discussed . |
| 23 | The technique of squeezing the last mark out of the examination game ( for it is so artificial as to be a game ) needs as much practice as mastering the breast stroke or converting a try . |
| 24 | Hahnemann described her as his best ever student and her deep love for him surely withheld the manuscript to deny his critics the opportunity of judging the 6th edition even more eccentric than the 5th . |
| 25 | The US Energy Department announced a five-year , $103m agreement with the Sematech semiconductor consortium to develop equipment for producing the next generation of chips : its Sandia National Laboratories , near Albuquerque , New Mexico will contribute the materials database and the expertise in advanced systems design needed to improve performance and reliability and Sematech will provide manufacturing expertise to the five-year programme . |
| 26 | His discussions of what was ‘ acceptable damage ’ in return for striking the first blow was ‘ somewhere between ten and sixty million dead . |
| 27 | Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season . |
| 28 | Well Nick , you have n't got the benefit of seeing the second division table in front of you . |
| 29 | The honour of establishing the first postwar economic arrangement belongs to Benelux , a grouping of Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg . |
| 30 | The honour of making the first speech may go to the best speaker or the best friend , providing your choice keeps as many people as possible happy ! |