Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appeal target for the last Games in Auckland in 1990 was also £250,000 and , significantly perhaps was not reached , £195,000 including sponsorship from McEwans of £100,000 being raised . |
| 2 | Except for the last Albanians in the Labour party , I do not believe that anyone seriously disputes that the process of competition is essential to maximise what is bought for the taxpayer . |
| 3 | lt has set a strategy for the next stages in the development of the information systems and database project and , through the encouragement of user involvement and management participation , a ‘ style ’ likely to lead to its successful completion . |
| 4 | I recognise that we have a great deal of work to do in planning for the next steps in taking our strategy forward . |
| 5 | China 's fury was prompted by Mr Patten 's decision last Friday to go ahead and publish proposed legislation on his democracy proposals for the next elections in 1995 . |
| 6 | It is kin , often , who provide shelter during the first days in the town and who help the migrant build his/her own home . |
| 7 | The diplomatic initiatives of 1958 will be discussed in later chapters , since they were plainly envisaged as the first steps in a long-term strategy . |
| 8 | They were formed at the same time as the Quakers , actually , in sixteen fifty-two , and the main erm belief of the group was that John Reeve and his cousin Ludowick Muddleton were the two prophets who 'd been chosen by God as the last witnesses in the Book of Revelation . |
| 9 | Troops and tanks were sent in to restore order a week after the first demonstrations in Tirana . |
| 10 | Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy . |
| 11 | Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy . |
| 12 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 13 | The radical simplification of forms which characterizes the painting can be accounted for by the fact that this was one of the first canvases in which Braque attempted to work from memory . |
| 14 | Such was his reputation that 2,000 people attended his funeral in Russia and one of the first statues in St Paul 's Cathedral in London was not of a sovereign , statesman or saint — but a simple , teetotal , vegetarian traveller who , as the inscription notes : |
| 15 | His name was Dave Brown and he eventually went on to establish one of the first clubs in the country to be licensed as an openly gay establishment . |
| 16 | He was one of the first sculptors in England to sign his work , and he had a thriving practice , several families , among them the Shireburns of Mitton , Lancashire , and the Brownlows of Belton , commissioning him more than once . |
| 17 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 18 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 19 | At this stage , in Britain as in other cattle-rearing countries , the cattle tended to be regional types rather than formal breeds , but by 1750 there was a recognisable regional distribution by coat colour and pattern in Britain — one of the first stages in breed development . |
| 20 | Under most circumstances this is one of the first stages in the preparation of material for pipette analysis . |
| 21 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 22 | Coun Bill Dixon ( Lab ) , chairman of the housing committee , said last night he hopes Darlington can be one of the first towns in Britain to use this system . |
| 23 | A notice of his death in the Bristol Journal supports the view that had he lived he would have made an even greater mark as an engineer : ‘ The public have to deplore in him the loss of one of the first mechanics in the kingdom , whose early genius brought to perfection that long-wished-for desideratum , the applying the powers of the fire-engine to rotular movements . ’ |
| 24 | In 1988 , distribution was one of the first Departments in C&P to gain ISO 9000 accreditation . |
| 25 | The foundation of the first colonies in the New World , on the east coast . |
| 26 | In 1898 , on the Torres Straits expedition , he performed some of the first experiments in cross-cultural psychology and also developed the genealogical method as a key to the study of social organization . |
| 27 | One of the first initiatives in the programme was a workshop on ‘ Communication for Development ’ , organised in Angola in July this year for Portuguese-speaking countries . |
| 28 | Along with Argentina , Chile was one of the first countries in Latin America to experience union organisation and by 1970 , the labour movement had emerged as a strong and ideologically independent organisation . |
| 29 | One of the first pubs in Lancaster |
| 30 | Perhaps I was one of the first women in the entire province of Parma to be ‘ liberated ’ in that sense . |