Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Art Master , Mr. J.T. Stanley , had led archaeological digs to Bakewell for the Sixth Form and organized his first foreign visit to the Pyrenees . |
| 2 | TUESDAY , November 3 , was an historic day for the Diocese when Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Crowley as the Sixth Bishop of Middlesbrough Diocese . |
| 3 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 4 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 5 | The following morning , after dropping Iris at Les Châtaigniers for the second day of her course , Melissa returned to the auberge and telephoned Antoinette Gebrec . |
| 6 | Commenting on its figures ( see page five ) , Eschborn , Germany-based Linotype AG says its 1992 domestic orders fell by 6% but the company enjoyed solid gains in key foreign markets , with the US up 18% , Japan up 24% and the Middle and Far East showing gains of between 15% and 49% ; the US market surpassed Germany for the first time , and exports at the computerised printing systems and equipment company accounted for 72.1% of overall business in 1992 after 69.1% a year earlier . |
| 7 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 8 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 9 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 10 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 11 | Burco Ltd produces and sells two products : X and Y. During the last year 700 labour hours were worked and the operating results were as follows : |
| 12 | In it he arrived , among many other discoveries , at the law of inertia later used by Isaac Newton as the first law of motion , at the parabola as the path of a projectile , at the relationships between distance and velocity and between distance and time , and at the continuity of acceleration . |
| 13 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 14 | He looked to West Germany for support , holding two meetings with Konrad Adenauer during the second half of 1958 . |
| 15 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 16 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 17 | ‘ The square on the hypotenuse , ’ said Percy Makepeace for the tenth time . |
| 18 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 19 | We have no regional offices , and do not appear in any local telephone books ; publicity material like the leaflets have HQ address on them and so many people making contact with CPRW for the first time , no matter where they live , come first to us . |
| 20 | Its use in Germany during the Second World War provided the most dramatic illustration of the power of the symbol . |
| 21 | Pacelli 's relationship with Germany during the Second World War , and his apparent failure to act sufficiently vigorously in defence of the Jews , remains the great enigma of his pontificate . |
| 22 | This one is pitched in Rosamund Pilcher territory , a many-layered family saga set in London , Kent and Germany during the Second World War . |
| 23 | In October the government announced that CFC production in West Germany during the first half of 1990 had been reduced to 42,820 tonnes ( as compared with 112,000 tonnes during the whole of 1986 ) . |
| 24 | King Hussein visited Iceland , Canada , the USA , France and Germany during the first half of March . |
| 25 | He 'd been a prisoner-of-war in Germany during the First World War and as a result of his wartime experiences suffered constantly from a weak chest . |
| 26 | Again , when Jews were refused ordination in the national protestant church in Germany during the Third Reich , the church split , for there were those who said that on principle ( whatever might be the case in the state ) this could not be in the church . |
| 27 | and Bankim Thanki for the second defendant . |
| 28 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 . |
| 29 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 30 | Taking a pass from Patrick during the next chukka , she set out once more for goal . |