Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1964 the Leaders learnt that the Reverend William Buchanan ( President of the Church 1990–1991 ) was unable to accept an invitation to succeed the Reverend Val Silcock as second minister on the Circuit . |
| 2 | EC Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana rejected demands for further changes to EC legislation on dangerous substances when a draft directive was tabled for second reading in the European Parliament . |
| 3 | In a sprint for second place at the finish it was the German pair who had the most power left . |
| 4 | See our big red cruising home to win six consecutive legs and the joy of her Kiwi skipper Peter Blake who had finally won the Whitbread after 17 years and four previous attempts , and the disappointment of the Rothmans and Merit teams who had constantly locked horns for second place during the nine month voyage . |
| 5 | San Diego , at 7-5 , are tied with Denver Broncos for second place in the AFC West . |
| 6 | Airtours and Owners Abroad compete for second place in the holiday market behind Thomson . |
| 7 | The French managed three tries in all , but still had to settle for second place in the five nations championship ; the final score at Twickenham ; twenty one , nineteen . |
| 8 | CARL FOGARTY predicts a race for second place against the Grand Prix Harris Yamaha of Preston rider Kevin Mitchell in next week 's North West 200 Superbike battle . |
| 9 | That was still good enough for second spot on the overnight grid . |
| 10 | Birchwood 's Derrick Cooper picked up over £8,000 to move to 55th place in the Volvo Order of Merit when he shot 68–70–68–73 for a share of 15th place in the Dunhill Masters . |
| 11 | Stewart gave the car its first win at Zandvoort , and victories at the Nurburgring , by a staggering four minutes , and at Watkins Glen ensured him of second place in the championship to his former team-mate Hill . |
| 12 | Britain 's Paul Hoad earned a share of fourth place in the New Zealand Open in Paraparaumu yesterday . |
| 13 | NICK FALDO , world No 1 last week and with a highly creditable share of sixth place in the Freeport-McMoran Classic in New Orleans at the weekend , found his halo had slipped when he arrived at Augusta for the US Masters yesterday . |
| 14 | His scam was discovered when a club manager rang the boy 's company Sky As A Kite and found he had dialled the head of sixth form at the prestigious Leeds Grammar School , West Yorks . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Galerie St Etienne follows up on this year 's National Gallery retrospective with ‘ Käthe Kollwitz in celebration of 125th anniversary of the artist 's birth ’ with working drawings and proof states of prints . |
| 16 | If a person had been admitted to hospital for coronary heart disease we used the date of first admission as the incidence date . |
| 17 | Four of the court 's nine justices joined in a separate opinion by Blackmun J. This opinion favoured a presumption of first resort to the Convention 's procedures , and feared that the majority 's preference for case-by-case comity analysis , unaccompanied by any guidance as to its conduct , would lead to the Convention 's procedures being invoked infrequently . |
| 18 | The practice of appeal from ducal courts of first instance in the duchy to the Paris Parlement led ultimately to the formulation of the theory of independent Plantagenet sovereignty over Gascony . |
| 19 | It was not until 1963 that a reformist element was able to make itself heard , with the election to the position of first secretary of the Slovak party of Alexander Dubček . |
| 20 | Ivan Polozkov , the conservative CPSU first secretary in Krasnodar kray ( territory ) who in May had been defeated by Boris Yeltsin for the post of President of the Russian Federation [ see pp. 37459-60 ] , was elected to the post of first secretary of the Russian Federation CP on June 23 . |
| 21 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 22 | Diplomatic sources say that other South-east Asian countries which , like Hong Kong , have offered a port of first asylum to the fleeing Vietnamese , are closely watching the mandatory repatriation programme . |
| 23 | I felt I had to I When I went to school m my father could n't afford very much and erm I remember starting the first term of first day of the term with shoes with a big split in it . |
| 24 | Papers that survive the hurdle of first peer-review at The Lancet are sent for statistical assessment . |
| 25 | Patient M17 was the only individual who was colonised by the epidemic strain at the time of first referral to the unit . |
| 26 | Ayrton Senna struck a cautiously conciliatory note in Phoenix last Thursday on the eve of first practice for the opening F1 race of the year . |
| 27 | The Policyholders estimated value as last advised to the Corporation shall be the maximum amount payable by the Corporation in respect of any claim for loss or damage except that if during the period of one year after the date of first registration by the Policyholder of such motor car as new the motor car is |
| 28 | But they , they sailed sort of first thing in the morning and did n't come back till last thing at |
| 29 | Neither Princess was of first rank in the European hierarchy of royalty and both were protestants . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , to keep as much of its collection as possible in New York City , the Society is offering other New York institutions the right of first refusal in the purchase of its works put up for sale . |