Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would be a great actress or a great painter , or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 2 | It was more or less the first thing we checked . ’ |
| 3 | Photovideo : An Exploration , 12 photographers and video makers from Britain and abroad investigate new electronic technology and ask if this is the end of photography as we know it , or merely the next chapter ? ( until 29 Feb ) . |
| 4 | Expansion or reformulation should be possible whether or not the first result is positive or negative . |
| 5 | Start string an identifying string , which can be the whole or just the first part of the title of the Product at which the list will start . |
| 6 | Start string an identifying string , which can be the whole or just the first part of the title of the Client at which the list will start . |
| 7 | It could be implied in the operation code whether the first or second store address is to receive the result , but in practice any particular computer uses always the first address , or always the second address , as the destination : for example the SS ( two address ) format of the IBM 370 range uses the first address as the destination . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's near the colonnade — but I 'm afraid it wo n't be in action until the first of May — or possibly the last day in April , ’ he supplied . |
| 9 | 4 The first recorded date in history , which maybe the British Domesday Book of 1086 , or the Crusader Lists , or possibly the 16th century Huguenot register . |
| 10 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 11 | Whilst it may be possible for certain hoists and lifts to be provided with dual controls and to be relied upon to assist in the initial stages of smouldering fire or even the last stages of salvage and reinstatement , and whilst the provision of a portable extinguisher could be regarded as standard , the dangers involved in aligning the confines of a lift or cage to a developing fire in the only manner by which it could be used effectively are sufficiently great to warrant special mention when consideration is being given to emergency planning . |
| 12 | She felt that the ‘ on — off ’ nature of their relationship — when he was here today but not tomorrow , or even the next day — was all part of Nicky 's habit of taking her for granted . |
| 13 | The words are often the last thing that , or sometimes the last thing that people actually write . |
| 14 | Somehow we are sure that this is not the first diet you have ever bought , or indeed the first time you have tried to lose weight . |
| 15 | So , in the first place it 's selfish , second place , or maybe the first place , it 's unnatural and who are , who are they thinking about ? |
| 16 | Tomorrow or maybe the next day — I doubt you will be kept waiting much longer . ’ |
| 17 | We have been concerned with how one leads into the other , or how the second strikes sparks off the first . |
| 18 | To follow our example through , leaving school is often a traumatic time : there is usually much regret but , on the other hand , there is also great excitement at the thought of doing new things and meeting new people at college or at work or wherever the next part of our life takes us . |
| 19 | Founded in 1583 , the University has a distinguished tradition of learning and of innovation , including examples in the Arts ( Edinburgh established the first Chair of English Literature in Britain ) , in the Sciences ( with the UK 's first Chair of Agriculture and latterly the first Chair and Department of Artificial Intelligence ) and , of course , in Medicine and the other professions . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Ambassador , Benedetti , was on leave and so the First Secretary of the Embassy was entrusted with seeing Bismarck in order to put the question to him . |
| 22 | As previously stated , rural land cover was not an important consideration , and so the first component image was discarded , together with the last three , leaving components 2 , 3 and 4 . |
| 23 | And so the first memories is in the meadows of Nottingham , going to infant school about the age do n't remember starting , but perhaps I 'd be six years of age , and it was a little church school and they were all lady teachers and most of them Mrs and not the Miss which is nowadays er more common . |
| 24 | This corresponds to a 1 symmetry , and so the first overtone of a b 1 vibration is an a 1 transition . |
| 25 | ( 10.68 ) It follows from this and ( 10.66 ) that , and so the first term in ( 10.64 ) must necessarily be included in these solutions . |
| 26 | It can be shown that and so the first term on the right-hand side of eqn ( 20.7 ) represents the transfer of energy between wavenumbers . |
| 27 | ‘ But it is mite dung that people become allergic to , and so the first thing to get rid of is the dung . |
| 28 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 29 | By this time Long would not have been a possible leader , and so the third contender of 1911 alone remained : Austen Chamberlain . |
| 30 | As he was unmasked he drove a poisoned dagger through Aethis 's heart , and so the eighth Phoenix King was slain by a trusted friend . |