Example sentences of "[art] [indef pn] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conduct of the elections attracted considerable interest , being the one of the first to be held in a traditionally single-party state since the recent adoption of pluralist systems by a number of sub-Saharan African states [ for Gabon elections see this page ] . |
| 2 | I liked the one on the last page best , " To Any Reader " , and its imparting of the sad , elegiac information that the child seen through the pages of the book : |
| 3 | That night I belted out one of my favourite speeches , the one from the second part of Henry IV in which the new king , Henry V , rejects the friendship of Falstaff . |
| 4 | The one in the second year . |
| 5 | Erm you know the one in the second year ? |
| 6 | It starts with a distinction similar to the one in the last paragraph , between what an action meant and what the actor meant by it . |
| 7 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |
| 8 | I think those 10th- and 11th-century sculptors were motivated not just by piety but also by a certain competitive spirit : if a church was finer than the one in the next village , more pilgrims would surely pause there . |
| 9 | Therefore , should we not use our strength and influence to try to organise throughout the west a Marshall plan , similar to the one after the second world war , to strengthen the hands of those who are doing their utmost to stave off anything approximating to anarchy ? |
| 10 | Same with the second beam pulse — the one behind the first . |
| 11 | The championship committee promptly diverted the unclaimed £150 prize for a one at the ninth into his appreciative hands . |
| 12 | No one in the sixteenth century made the mistake which was to become such a feature of later writings about her , of seeing her crimes or her innocence as a little domestic matter , locking her into a Scottish bedroom debate in which , as far as the outside world was concerned , only Elizabeth had an interest beyond the fleeting and casual . |
| 13 | Despite these difficulties with the idea of a static and unchanging universe , no one in the seventeenth , eighteenth , nineteenth , or early twentieth century suggested that the universe might be evolving with time . |