Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you are left in this condition during the operation , then at the end of the operation they give you a second injection that reverses the first one that paralysed you . |
| 2 | It led , for example , to the quest for the nature of the signal from the organizer that caused the second embryo and the second nervous system to form . |
| 3 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 4 | Similarly , at the bottom , warming gives it buoyancy that makes the next oscillation still larger . |
| 5 | ‘ Old school ’ , a term that describes the first wave of US rap originators , is now a bona fide street fashion craze . |
| 6 | * The aim of the review that constitutes the next two major sections of this chapter is largely methodological . |
| 7 | It is important to begin with this sense of perspective , lest the impression be given that politics exists only for the benefit of those who practise it — a kind of hobby ( or , better still , paid profession ) for an educated élite who compete among themselves for the ‘ prize ’ of being on the winning side that forms the next government . |
| 8 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 9 | A function and compatible string function that reads the next character from the keyboard buffer ( it waits for the character ) . |
| 10 | It was tiredness that finished the First Church . |
| 11 | Third , and most important , the quinte part in the ballet is not playable by a late 17th-century oboe band : it lies too high for the bassoon and too low for the taille de hautbois , the tenor oboe that plays the third line . |
| 12 | Though not a Leveller sympathizer , he sat as a leading London Independent on the committee that drafted the second Agreement of the People . |
| 13 | The 1940s were a decade split by the great peace that ended the last European war in May 1945 , but it has its own domestic character — a character soon to be forgotten by succeeding decades , though in The Girls of Slender Means ( 1963 ) Muriel Spark aptly called it a time when ‘ all the nice people were poor ’ . |
| 14 | Light could cause Cr(CO) 6 to lose a carbon monoxide molecule , forming a reactive fragment that grabs the next molecule it bumps into . |
| 15 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 16 | In 1841 , when the Great North of England Railway opened up for coal traffic , it was a Kitching engine that pulled the first train . |
| 17 | I felt sure the team that won the second division title in 89–90 ‘ d have scored from two or three of the pretty decent corner kicks . |
| 18 | This is the second Point that balances the first and safeguards it from the other extreme — being too soft on doubt . |
| 19 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 20 | If grey was the colour that characterized the first phase of my time at Harwich , blue characterizes this next phase . |
| 21 | The plan of his outward life and activities is succinctly given in the Diary that forms the last third of The Woodland Life . |
| 22 | So that on er if you look at the crew picture this is the crew that flew the first mission to Gdynia , Poland except kneeling the second man from the left is , he did not go , I flew the co-pilot position . |
| 23 | The dog that accompanied the eleventh legion that was to conquer the area we now know as Rottweil in AD 74 would not be recognizable as the breed we know today . |
| 24 | ‘ Carissima , ’ he said in an urgent whisper , and then he swung her into his arms and his mouth dropped to hers , slanting across her lips with a hot , savage passion that drove the last bit of rational thought from her mind . |
| 25 | After the deluge that decided the first battle of Ypres , King-Emperor George V arrived at the St Omer Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France , and went away again . |
| 26 | I vividly remember the familiar scent of sawdust that perfumed the first hug . |
| 27 | It was the centrifuge that yielded the last cull , a final ounce of bits of metal . |
| 28 | If the borrower should default , the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance . |
| 29 | A significant role in the disorder that plagued the last decades of the Russian Empire was played by the so-called ‘ revolutionary intelligentsia ’ . |
| 30 | No one has yet explained to me what happens to your filter if you set up an aquarium and lock up the ammonia that forms the first stage of the nitrogen cycle as Ammo Lock claims to do . |