Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election . |
| 2 | Data from children whose ears contained fluid at the final assessment or at the last assessment before they were lost to follow up were excluded . |
| 3 | On 3 March 1987 the originating summons was amended by adding the seventh and eighth plaintiffs , and on 19 March 1987 it was further amended to seek accounts of all transactions entered into , and of all dealings with the property of the plaintiffs by the first defendant , and of all moneys received by or payment made by the first defendant or by the second or third defendants , and an inquiry whether any sums were due from the first defendant to the plaintiffs . |
| 4 | I 'll never know how I made it through to the interval , an hour later , but I do know that I wrenched those lenses out with such force that in the second act I was white-faced , red-eyed , and resembled one of the Brides of Dracula . |
| 5 | The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric . |
| 6 | However , one has to bear in mind that at the last meeting of the West Essex Health Authority erm they are saying that they ca n't carry on treating the same amount of people erm , because they 're overspend already this year and that they will not treat these er , extra contractual referrals without prior funding being approved and that was co , that was actually stated at the meeting last week . |
| 7 | Well , the thing is what 's happening , I thought we might spend some time on if wanted , what I wanted to do was to be sure in my own mind that by the second week I could put up a master sheet with all the headings of what you were doing , that 's got ta be done . |
| 8 | The increased likelihood of referral occurred among both male and female patients in the two groups of practices , although female patients between the ages of 5–24 and 45–74 in fundholding practices were slightly less likely to be referred in the second phase of the study than in the first ( table IV ) . |
| 9 | Like ‘ violons ’ , this is a term that in the 17th century was used more broadly than the single word ‘ oboe ’ suggests . |
| 10 | Over the years , the VMA gradually became a students ' association and at the first general meeting of its 45th session , on 19 October 1880 , John H. Steel , the secretary and librarian , announced ‘ the Veterinary Medical Association , while having wide sympathies with its members who have become qualified practitioners , is now the Students ’ Society of the largest British Veterinary School' . |
| 11 | They are highly controversial and can not come into force until after the next election . |
| 12 | In the first the academic community denied the possibility of a biological basis of mind at all , in the second it denied the existence of mind and in the third , into which we have now entered , we are coming to accept both the existence and physical basis of the mind . |
| 13 | The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets . |
| 14 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 15 | We had about six or seven weeks to finish the album and by the last week , I did n't have a vocal on two of the tracks and this is where it actually began — David writing on microphone . |
| 16 | Today the big draught breeds , especially in the Massif Central , have found new roles in the beef industry and over the last few years they have been exported in increasing numbers to boost beef production in several parts of the world , sometimes displacing some of the famous traditional British beef breeds . |
| 17 | When you are playing regularly you can show your ability in the best light and in the last two games I 've done that . ’ |
| 18 | Halifax battered Scarborough for ten minutes after half-time and from the third of a series of corners , Dave Evans rattled a shot against the crossbar . |
| 19 | This month Jane looks at re-training the older horse and over the next few issues she will be giving invaluable advice on overcoming the most common problems . |
| 20 | Lipson and colleagues subsequently report ( May 22 , p 1352 ) from Australia a girl born with multiple congenital defects to a mother , who before conception and for the first 5 weeks of gestation , had used a topical liquid preparation of 0.05% tretinoin in 45% alcohol . |
| 21 | The acuteness of the goods famine must certainly be alleviated and not in some remote future but during the next few years . |
| 22 | So our , our cost figures for the project will include the simulator but in the next phase of the programme . |
| 23 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |
| 24 | Scotland has been in the doldrums of international competition for years , only able to raise its game in occasional moments of glorious defeat as in the last European Championship . |
| 25 | This means that the added contradicting note must be a major or minor 2nd ( or 7th or 9th ) distant from either existing note : To form four-part harmony we now add a lower part which again contradicts an upper part except in the fifth chord . |
| 26 | There is a story that at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the award of Gauss ' doctorate , Gauss was about to light his pipe with a page from the original Disquisitiones . |
| 27 | It was certainly the case that in the first centuries the example of Jesus must have been a tremendous model for living and for dying . |
| 28 | Erm , it 's quite frankly about abusing women and it 's often the case that in the eighteenth century one 's sexuality was considered to begin much earlier than we do now . |
| 29 | I was in less difficulty than on the first two days : I no longer pushed the ends of the shafts but gained better control from between them and was able to look around without overbalancing . |
| 30 | German research minister Matthias Wissmann last week announced a major restructuring of medical research funding that for the first time establishes independent external refereeing for projects in universities and their associated clinics . |