Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |
| 2 | Council goes public for the first time |
| 3 | The latest Williams-trained discovery , New Level , looks outstanding in the first heat of the Regal Puppy Trophy , having won his first three races and never being headed to the first bend . |
| 4 | The therapist believes this problem is maintained independently of the client 's other problems and thus accepts this as the first goal for therapy . |
| 5 | The island of Porto Santo has one of the last unspoilt beaches in Europe where , for eight kilometres , you can walk along a white sandy beach washed by the Atlantic Ocean and bordered by sand dunes . |
| 6 | Garden contains one of the first rockeries in Britain , which houses the earliest garden gnomes in England . |
| 7 | It then lies dormant until the third verse when , once returns . |
| 8 | It starts as for Ziggerat , climbs direct to the first roof , pulls through this and continues up the steep wall to the next roof which is passed by very difficult bridging . |
| 9 | ROGER GANN FASTENS HIS SEATBELT AND TESTS SOME OF THE FIRST 33MHz PCs TO STORM ONTO THE SCENE . |
| 10 | Carlsbad , California-based Stac Electronics Inc is meeting the challenge of the built-in data compression in MS-DOS 6.0 , formally launched by Microsoft Corp yesterday with its own new Stacker 3.1 for Windows and MS-DOS : the company says the new version achieves new levels of safety and ease of use by taking advantage of special operating system features available for the first time in MS-DOS 6.0 ; when loaded , it replaces Microsoft 's DoubleSpace , and integrates the Stacker LZS compression into the operating system , and Stac claims that unlike DoubleSpace , which is based on data compression technology licensed from Vertisoft Systems Inc , $150 Stacker 3.1 is also fully compatible with earlier MS-DOSes . |
| 11 | Percivall , in his 1834 introductory lecture , says one of the first operations performed by Vial at the College was the excision of two redundant or accessory feet which grew from the fetlocks of the forelegs of a foal . |
| 12 | In the country , it loads up and goes inert at the first sign of a corner . |
| 13 | Whilst agreeing with the Commission about the desirability of reducing the number of crown court cases which are prepared for trial but where the defendant unexpectedly pleads guilty at the last moment , it believes that there are other ways of tackling this problem which do not pose a threat to the interests of justice . |
| 14 | Written with verve and an abundance of information and insight , it firmly characterises one of the eighteenth century 's most subtle portraitists . |
| 15 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 16 | The care pulls up at the studio and Kylie greets everyone with a breezy ‘ G'Day ’ and gets ready for the last few moments as Lola teenage runaway . |
| 17 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is expected to report operating losses of up to $245m for 1992 in its end of year figures due over the next couple of months , according to Italian press reports . |
| 18 | Kenny Irons hacks clear in the 39th minute after Eric Nixon at full stretch fails to hold a low cross with one hand . |
| 19 | Longevity seems set for the next few years , at least , to have , at best , a sharply reduced economic value . |
| 20 | With the growth that seems likely over the next few years one can not help asking what the future holds . |
| 21 | These two factors have always applied , but the significance of regional and local perspectives on population changes seems greater in the last quarter of the twentieth century than previously . |
| 22 | In between , Strachan showed his alertness again , running Nigel Worthington and John Harkes ragged in the first seconds after half-time to set up a simple header for Lee Chapman . |
| 23 | But he knows that later means closer to the next election . |
| 24 | The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components . |
| 25 | Like other theories of visual object recognition and word recognition , it concentrates on the processes which allow us to access already learned information , rather than enquiring how such information becomes stored in the first place . |
| 26 | So , up we go the road narrows straight past the first left , there is n't a sign for Monkey Island at all . |
| 27 | The inevitability of death becomes real for the first time . |
| 28 | Gregory 's account becomes exceptional in the second decade of the sixth century with the election of Quintianus , who had fled from his see at Rodez because of the Visigoths . |
| 29 | Economic barriers to book publishing remains constant throughout the Third World . |
| 30 | Economic barriers to book publishing remains constant throughout the Third World . |