Example sentences of "[noun sg] [num ord] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lafaille first attempted the line in early March this year , but was forced back after four days by a combination of high winds and snowfall . |
| 2 | But please to remember that the Battle of Britain boffinery first saw the light of day in the mid-1930s . |
| 3 | But no blows were struck then , or in the similar crises of 1051 and 1052 , when Edward the Confessor first secured the expulsion and then accepted the return of the powerful Godwin family . |
| 4 | It can therefore be taught to circle if ( a ) the shepherd first makes the dog run round to the other side of the flock , and then ( b ) moves himself and repeats the exercise . |
| 5 | It records which lexicographer last changed the entry and when . |
| 6 | Her lawyers had argued the heiress retained reproduction rights on works by Matisse purchased by her father before 1910 , when French law first made the distinction between property rights and ‘ immaterial rights ’ such as those of reproduction . |
| 7 | Bonar Law first welcomed the idea as a means of reducing his party 's dependence on " the trade " , but opposed it when he recognized the scale of party feeling . |
| 8 | Their ‘ dieselised ’ version of a well proved 1,600cc four-cylinder engine first set the standard in 1976 , and more than 2,300,000 have been sold since then . |
| 9 | The Institute first considered the possibility of extending openness to disciplinary hearings at the request of Council member Douglas Llambias , after he had been refused admittance as an observer to the Disciplinary Committee hearing into the conduct of Polly Peck administrators Michael Jordan and Richard Stone ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 14 ) . |
| 10 | When Topaz first saw the Convent of St. Francis she was filled with panic . |
| 11 | I have said that when Boy first entered The Bar he was exhausted ; exhausted , walked off his feet . |
| 12 | Among witnesses called for the AFCO were Richard Doll , an epidemiologist from the University of Oxford , whose work first established the link between smoking and disease . |
| 13 | I like to have some sort of colour down as an underpainting first to kill the white of the paper — a similar process to an oil painter , and I start by wetting the paper with an old one and a half inch household painting brush and then quickly slash in some colour which slightly relates to what I see . |
| 14 | When the Chancellor next visits the Duchy of Lancaster , will he kindly explain why the Government are cheating on the RECHAR money and thus depriving the coalfields of Lancashire and Yorkshire of funds that are rightly theirs ? |
| 15 | While Chapman 's team first reached the top of the table , in October 1923 , a petition was sent to the FA asking for the ban on his former colleagues at Leeds City to be lifted . |
| 16 | Any authority so granted would expire at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting next following the date of the meeting at which the ordinary resolution was passed . |
| 17 | When Realism first took the stage , there seemed to be one . |
| 18 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 19 | The Court first rejected the Association 's argument that the agreement did not infringe Art 85(1) at all . |
| 20 | In May 1983 the head first introduced the appraisal at a meeting of senior staff and I attended this meeting so that the research project could be explained and I could answer any questions staff might have . |
| 21 | Options 4 and 5 allow you to drop on either side of the lateral water hazard , not nearer the hole and within two club lengths of the point marked B , where the ball first entered the hazard . |
| 22 | Langer admits that FOE first discussed the idea of endorsing products with Loblaws in the autumn of 1988 . |
| 23 | When my right hon. Friend next visits the duchy , will he point out that under our NHS reforms a record number of patients are being treated there by a record number of doctors and nurses , and that waiting lists are falling ? |
| 24 | When the right hon. Gentleman next takes the opportunity to visit Blackpool , will he refer to the fact that according to the Government 's own figures which have been supplied to me , 38 per cent . |
| 25 | When , asked Henry Bellingham MP , ‘ did the Forestry Commission first urge the government to reduce emissions of both NOx and SO&sub2 ; ? ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps it can be traced even deeper in the past — we can go back to the time when the woman first attracted the man whose child she will later bear , or to the onset of her menstruation , when her body signalled its readiness for pregnancy . |
| 27 | Marriage tables ( analagous to life tables ) can be constructed showing , as might be expected , that advancing age first increases the chance of an imminent marriage but is finally an unfavourable factor . |
| 28 | Here the leaves were inserted into a swag base first to create the background . |
| 29 | Andrew Morton , the royal writer whose best-seller Diana : Her True Story first lifted the lid on the marriage problems of the warring Waleses , last night supported the conspiracy theory . |
| 30 | Wood dyes are best applied with a cloth , because if applied with a brush , there will be dark areas where the brush first touches the wood . |