Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France , Germany and several other members , stressing its ( more active ) peacemaking potential , saw this as the first major concrete step towards developing the WEU as the " defence component of the European union " as outlined in the Maastricht treaty [ see p. 38658 ] . |
| 2 | As half of the first full-time two man drug squad in the North-East of England , I was tasked with defining and dealing with the new social aberration of ‘ flower power ’ , ‘ the counter culture ’ , and the ‘ psychedelic trip ’ . |
| 3 | Bull has already revealed details of its Integrated Systems Management effort , based around the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , and is now working on some of the first practical applications to run on top . |
| 4 | Some of the first newly-planned settlements were established by Victorian industrialists themselves , but a long process of government legislation culminated in the passing , between 1945 and 1950 , of comprehensive Town and Country Planning legislation , including provision for New Towns and National Parks but also a characteristically negative policy toward the expansion of cities themselves . |
| 5 | With a dry wit and an infectious Brooklyn drawl , Karen , as part of the Flatbush-based Soulboys group of club-runners , was responsible for some of the first illegal parties in New York , as well as having the much-coveted job of doorperson at various Manhattan clubs . |
| 6 | Both were headed by Prof. R.B. Le Page , who had produced some of the first linguistic studies of Jamaican Creole about twenty years previously ( Le Page 1961 ; Le Page and De Camp 1960 ; Cassidy and Le Page 1980 , originally published 1967 ) . |
| 7 | Bankside was the work of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott , OM , the architect of Liverpool 's Anglican Cathedral , the rebuilt House of Commons and some of the last vital products of the Gothic Revival . |
| 8 | ‘ I want Surere caught and brought here ; and I want him tried and executed , and I want this before the next public rest day , ’ he repeated . |
| 9 | Gold/silver medallions are awarded to candidates who gain First and Second Place worldwide , for each of the Third Level Group Diplomas . |
| 10 | The high mortality of infants born to young mothers and , consequently , that of the first born babies may be explained , at least partly , by their birth weight . |
| 11 | Rehearsals for important premieres , such as the first Polish performance of Shostakovich 's Fourteenth Symphony at an inaugural concert of the Warsaw Autumn , could take many weeks . |
| 12 | In November the same label issues The Damned 's ‘ New Rose ’ , hailed by many as the first true punk single . |
| 13 | Among Sikhs , for example , many of the first male immigrants arrived in the 1950s , by the 60s they had been joined by their wives and children and by the 70s many of them had brought their elderly parents . |
| 14 | And so , depending on what you want to do on nine o'clock on Monday morning , you would take out the required floppy disc , put it in your computer , take out your data disc , which you would also have kept , put that in the second floppy disc unit , and you 'd be ready to run that particular application . |
| 15 | By extrapolation it is estimated that , over one year , there were 16 acute admissions to hospital from the practices per 1000 registered population , a figure identical with that in the third national morbidity survey . |
| 16 | ‘ The growth in planned production is to be 15% greater than that in the last financial year ’ |
| 17 | Scientists believe remains dug up in a Siberian forest could be those of the last Russian Tsar and his family who were butchered by rebel guards after the 1917 communist revolution . |
| 18 | Assets other than those in the last audited balance sheet . |
| 19 | This means that those with the highest periodontal index score of 8 had a relative risk of 1.43 compared with those with a score of 0 , and those at the 90th centile of the distribution of the periodontal index ( score=5 ) had a relative risk of 1.25 compared with those below the lowest decile ( score=0 ) . |
| 20 | People with a maximum hygiene index score of 6 had a relative risk of 2.03 compared with those with an index of 0 , and those at the 90th centile ( score=3 ) were 1.42 times more likely to experience a coronary heart disease event than were those below the lowest decile ( score=0 ) . |
| 21 | The association of periodontal index and total mortality reflects the findings of the periodontal classification ; the relative risk was 1.53 for those at the 90th centile compared with those below the lowest decile of the distribution of the index . |
| 22 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 23 | Th the fact of the matter is that at the next general election , the Stormant or the Westminster election , Gerry Addams will win that seat . |
| 24 | In order for the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet to convene on March 10 with the requisite two-thirds quorum most of the second round run-off elections , scheduled for March 10 , had been brought forward . |