Example sentences of "[adv] the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily the second tags on the babies ' arms were correct and van driver Derek , who had been present at the birth , was positive Daniel was his baby . |
| 2 | In 1912 Punnett was appointed to the Balfour professorship of biology at Cambridge — effectively the first chair of genetics to be established anywhere — after Bateson had declined it . |
| 3 | However , when Raymond Plant of Southampton University wrote a Fabian Tract on the subject , he chose to emphasise not the third element in the French Revolutionary triad but rather the third element in T.H. Marshall 's triad of civil , political and social citizenship . |
| 4 | ‘ Much better the last couple of days . ’ |
| 5 | He did better the next year in the title role of Dr Knock , acting ‘ with ease and obvious personal enjoyment ’ . |
| 6 | The brilliance of the morning caused her to vow that Doreen would be unable to spoil that particular part of the day , and suddenly the last vestige of her previous depression vanished . |
| 7 | A local tombstone recording the death in 1806 of John Taylor , potter , is apparently the last reference to pot-making at Silkstone . |
| 8 | Thus it came about that sealed bids were invited , to be opened by the treasurer at 1 pm. the first day of the Sale . |
| 9 | At this rate , she thought , she was in danger of being found snoozing gently the next morning at the scene of the crime . |
| 10 | In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews . |
| 11 | It then declined , dropping to below the third magnitude in 1940 . |
| 12 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 13 | Perhaps the first question to be answered is why do so many sedimentologists concentrate on sedimentary petrography ? |
| 14 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 15 | Perhaps the first step towards achieving this balance of ability is to be able to use both left and right sides with equal effectiveness . |
| 16 | Whilst such an interpretation of three-dimensional spaces may create a slightly confused image when all three laminas are visible , it is perhaps the first step towards full modelling . |
| 17 | The concentration of neurons in ganglia is perhaps the first step towards building a brain , but even the appearance of a large head ganglion does not ensure that brains of the sort that humans and other mammals possess are the only design solution that can result . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps the first key to this puzzle will be there . ’ |
| 19 | Laura had felt , for perhaps the first time since her husband 's reappearance in her life , the warmth of a shared companionship . |
| 20 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 21 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 22 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 23 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 24 | PERHAPS the last word on the ‘ Blood Kit ’ business , from a lady in Newton Aycliffe whose maternal grandfather a chap called Harry Gent was landlord in the early twentieth century . |
| 25 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |
| 26 | Perhaps the last occasion on which they figured at all prominently was at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia in 1856 . |
| 27 | ARCHIE BINDING , who has died aged 105 , was perhaps the last survivor of those Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airmen who crewed airships in the First World War . |
| 28 | Otherwise that person having worked for four different employers during the forty years will not retire on two-thirds of final salary , but will retire on two-thirds er only perhaps the last employer for the last ten years . |
| 29 | FOR perhaps the 50th time since lunch , the hotline rings . |
| 30 | .. perhaps the next step in future research can be to explore the detailed linkage between environment , scanning , and actual strategic adjustments . |