Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 3 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 4 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 5 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 6 | So blackly venomous was his expression that Perdita fled towards the next pitch , scattering the polo balls which lay like a hatch of goose eggs near the goal posts . |
| 7 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 8 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 9 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 10 | The Summerchilds lived in the third one along , with the peeling woodwork and the neglected grey rendering . |
| 11 | Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) . |
| 12 | The first peacetime , and civil , air disaster in Ayrshire occurred on the 20th October , 1948 . |
| 13 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 14 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 15 | Des O'Grady had the honour when he and Kyle came to the 6th . |
| 16 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 17 | Paul Weston scored in the first half for Stockton , but it was not until the last five minutes that Paul Bromley crossed for their second try . |
| 18 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 19 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 20 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |
| 21 | Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 . |
| 22 | Richard Carlile followed with the first book on contraception in 1826 ( Every Woman 's Book ) , followed by Moral Physiology by the American socialist Robert Dale Owen , 1830 , and Dr Charles Knowlton 's Fruits of Philosophy in New York in 1832 . |
| 23 | ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] . |
| 24 | When Levi walked off the 15th green , somebody told him , ‘ Watson 's gon na get you . ’ |
| 25 | Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government . |
| 26 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
| 27 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 28 | The diary Bobby kept over the next few months usefully logs many of the characters and landing stages in Minton 's frenzied circuit . |
| 29 | Two years later Eyre brought off the first British professional staging of Cavalli 's Jason at the Buxton Festival . |
| 30 | No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean . |