Example sentences of "[det] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That turns the first part of the system off , ’ she explained . |
| 2 | You 've each won the first prize in our June competition of a Rohan Shearwater Gore-Tex jacket and pair of the company 's famous walking trousers , Rohan bags . |
| 3 | Then , when the first priest arrived , he wanted to live in Tala-Tala near the kirk , so this became the first hospital , and this , ’ he almost kicked the battered old trunk , ‘ became the first filing cabinet . |
| 4 | The Labour Party claims that this represents the first stage in a policy of full market rents . |
| 5 | This represents the last entry to be proofed with all entries lying between the two headwords also being proofed |
| 6 | This represents the last entry to be proofed , with all entries lying between the two print sequence numbers also being proofed . |
| 7 | This represents the last entry to be cross-referenced with all entries lying between the two headwords also being cross-referenced . |
| 8 | This represents the last entry to be cross-referenced , with all entries lying between the two print sequence numbers also being cross-referenced . |
| 9 | You half expect the next song to start anyway because there are batteries in it , but , instead : silence . |
| 10 | This highlights the third qualification : the liberal-democratic type of government is one in which it is denied that there is any objective science of sociely or of morals . |
| 11 | The discoverer — reputedly Ingolfur Arnarson after whom a fine peak near Þingvellir and Ingólfshöfdi is named — called the country ‘ Iceland ’ because of the ice he found there ; this created the first half-truth about the islands of the north . |
| 12 | This establishes the first part of the theorem . |
| 13 | This establishes the second part of Sylvester 's theorem . |
| 14 | This happened the next day , and the next until , fed up at seeing my lettuces out again , I decided to investigate . |
| 15 | However , it is believed that due to remarks made about ‘ A ’ Flight 's flying capabilities in the Officers ' Mess on the night before the Air Officer Commanding 's ( AOC 'd ) Annual Inspection , this happened the next day . |
| 16 | This renewed the nineteenth century tradition of favouring selected producers in the interests of national strength and independence but with one important difference . |
| 17 | This finds the next instance of the search text . |
| 18 | This removes the last shred of justification for the World Bank 's very existence . " |
| 19 | for direct processing the track index does not make it clear which records are in overflow and which in the prime data area ; this prevents the first overflow record being retrieved as quickly as is achieved in the two-entry index system — at least while it is the only overflow record . |
| 20 | This meant the first change of name for the young Michael Smith ; he became known as Ingram , and there was no love lost between him and his stepfather . |
| 21 | 18–7 James McDonald , a servant at Islay House , asked for baptism for his child and this brought the first case of antenuptial fornication . |
| 22 | In effect this represented the first retreat from Marxism 's prohibition on private ownership of the means of production since the abandonment in 1928 of Lenin 's New Economic Policy ( NEP ) . |
| 23 | This represented the first time that all five states had agreed on all aspects of ending the Cambodian conflict . |
| 24 | This represented the first acknowledgment by the government that a rebellion was taking place . |
| 25 | This provokes the first nation into developing a 10-megaton bomb , which in turn provokes the second into making a 20-megaton bomb , and so on . |
| 26 | From this follows the first point : the existence of illegal concert parties is enormously hard to prove . |
| 27 | Also , when unc is reached , this gives the last row of R and hence also the last column , so that the eighth elements in unc can be written down , and so on . |
| 28 | When Norman recruited Sir Ian McGregor , this marked the first time in Britain that a nationalised industry chief had been appointed through executive search . |
| 29 | This marked the first launch of its kind in China . |
| 30 | This puts the second family at only just above income support levels and there is therefore a danger that one of the main effects of these changes will be to impoverish second families without directly helping first families . |