Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb base] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , I have two letters on the side I open the first one . |
| 2 | Or you may find that when you first start on your weight control programme you lose the first 3–5 lb ( 1.4–2.3 kg ) fairly rapidly . |
| 3 | In this chapter we consider the first of these problems : the growth of public expenditure and the difficulties surrounding its control . |
| 4 | Right , er next evening we settle the thirteenth of September then ? |
| 5 | In assessing how much is spent on domestic output we add the first four items . |
| 6 | It takes at least five Americans to write a book erm they 're all multi- authored volumes erm for , for most of your purposes , for almost all your purposes er and certainly for basic reading for , for lectures and , and tutorials it really does n't matter which one you read erm there are , I mean there are in the library I think the last time I counted them about twenty five or thirty general textbooks on American politics , it does n't really matter er which one you read . |
| 7 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 8 | You know at my age you recall the first twenty years far better than the second — or the third . |
| 9 | Next week we start the second part of the course , our erm , our key as it were and we 'll look at the first one with er . |
| 10 | Gloucester went on to the final that season while Gosforth merged with the Newcastle club to create a new force in northern rugby … this season they lead the second division … they 're unbeaten too … so Gloucester are up against it |
| 11 | They 're signalling Oh I do n't want to go that way I want the next one . |
| 12 | it just happened that way you know the twentieth of November and there 's the nineteenth of February |
| 13 | This year we see the third and final pack on evangelisation . |
| 14 | It is not surprising that in this period of increased sensitivity to the emerging ecological problem we find the first Utopia based upon ecological as well as social ideals . |
| 15 | That way we protect the next Miranda Lewis . ’ |
| 16 | In the fourteenth century mystical awakening we see the first signs of a deeper and more committed type of religion , which would finally culminate in both Protestant and Catholic reformations . |
| 17 | On New Year 's Eve we skip the next four years and go straight into 1977 . |
| 18 | By the time we reach the second set of interviews , where the question of retirement was clarified , only a quarter of the grandfathers are remembered as still at work in old age . |
| 19 | At the same time we find the first attempts to develop certain overseas areas as specialist producers of such exports to the ‘ developed ’ world — indigo and jute in Bengal , tobacco in Colombia , coffee in Brazil and Venezuela , not to mention cotton in Egypt , etc . |
| 20 | In the Montagu declaration we see the first official glimmer of an idea which exercised a vast and perversely inspirational influence on the process of imperial disintegration : the idea of the multiracial Commonwealth . |
| 21 | ONE in three schoolchildren in Wales has experimented at least once with drugs by the time they reach the fifth form , a conference heard yesterday . |