Example sentences of "[vb base] the [num ord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Testing of children has always legitimately had separate purposes : diagnostic — to enable the teacher to calibrate their own assessment of a child 's difficulty and judge the next best line for development ; setting of tests to establish mastery of a particular piece of learning when of concept , skill or information ; and standardised to set one 's own information against some comparators . |
| 2 | And Wasps remain the fourth undefeated club in the First Division after a 15-13 win at Harlequins . |
| 3 | Not until 1793 did Sultan Selim III make the first serious effort to establish permanent Turkish diplomatic missions in the main European capitals ; and these were unsuccessful and short-lived . |
| 4 | I mean the second main paymaster of myself , you know , is the university , in fact , and erm without them I do n't suppose I could have sort of financed the extra side of sort of clothing and everything else for my mayoralty . |
| 5 | Young , currently the smartest culture , crit , and sidekick Caveney provide the first serious look at the new wave of American fiction — from the burnt-out brat packers to such authentic talents as Mary Gaitskill and Dennis Cooper |
| 6 | To our knowledge , our results provide the first definite evidence for a link between an electrical signal and a biochemical response in plants . |
| 7 | At this point it is sufficient to state that the estimates are based on high quality data supplied by The Scotch Whisky Association 's nine largest companies and they provide the first published attempt to quantify the wider economic significance of this important industry . |
| 8 | To our knowledge , these findings provide the first direct evidence that mesenchymal as well as epithelial cells are involved in T-cell development , and suggest that their involvement is stage-specific and likely to be dependent on short-range or contact-mediated interactions . |
| 9 | These observations provide the first direct evidence that the early stages of T-cell development depend on fibroblast products and suggest that this effect is unlikely to be mediated solely by soluble factors . |
| 10 | Our results thus provide the first direct evidence that tamoxifen does not have antioestrogenic effects on bone in postmenopausal women and indicate a possible oestrogenic effect . |
| 11 | Captain Ferzenaar 's observations on the state of Krakatoa in early August , even though made only from a boat keeping to the upwind side , are particularly useful because they provide the last reliable account of the situation before the culminating events which ensued fifteen days later . |
| 12 | Say the next largest ratio is R' . |
| 13 | We report the first successful treatment with recombinant tPA ( rtPA ) in a 4-year-old girl with HUS . |
| 14 | Lawrence insisted that the Ayresome Park outfit could still catch second-placed Leicester and snatch the second automatic promotion spot . |
| 15 | To-night , according to the rumours that were running round the streets of Pool , they would camp at Montgomery , and cover the last short stage to Parfois in the morning . |
| 16 | Goleta , California-based , SmartStar Corporation , the company that years ago put the first fourth generation language interface on a relational database machine and then created the first VAX/VMS 4GL , has popped up with SmartStar Vision , a new object-oriented application development environment . |
| 17 | When these enterprises do manage to take hold the next key question is the extent to which they hire from the local community and from disadvantaged groups ( e.g. the long-term unemployed ) . |
| 18 | Hence the resolve in Bonn , so far , to keep quiet and hope the last Soviet soldier goes home before the end of 1994 . |
| 19 | If the{ From Working Set } box contains ‘ A ’ or ‘ B ’ then select the next available tape from the TEXTA/TEXTB rack . |
| 20 | If the{ From Working Set } box contains ‘ J ’ then select the next available tape from the TEXTJ rack . |
| 21 | Yeah I know I watch the first one video fucked up . |
| 22 | But if you overwrite the first twenty factory patches , there 's a procedure allowing you to call them up again anyway ( as per most digital devices ) , so all 's not lost . |
| 23 | We owe the next great advance in the appreciation of precious stones to the Hellenistic and Roman heirs of Alexander 's conquests which served to promote new dynasties and enhance trade between the Mediterranean and India . |
| 24 | All SWIFTAIR items receive priority handling and separate sorting so that they meet the first available flight to the country of destination . |
| 25 | Yeah , and that wa , she said well it 's an insurance job she said well it do n't matter , you stand the first hundred pound and then erm then the VAT so she said I dread to think what the price of the job were on the insurance ! |
| 26 | Victory for Leicester and anything less than three points for Lennie Lawrence 's Middlesbrough would see the Teessiders consigned to the play-offs and the Midlands club clinch the second automatic promotion spot behind Ipswich . |
| 27 | They approach the first rocky hill and pause . |
| 28 | Florence C commands both saw and herself because if you go up the tree from Florence you find the first branching node , that 's the S node and that dominates both saw and herself . |
| 29 | We 're both doing the same job , we 're both the same function , which is , find the next prime number up , from whatever number you 're given . |
| 30 | And the function is , find the next prime number that 's greater than . |