Example sentences of "[that] the [noun] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the occasion of the Prime Minister 's visit to the USSR in March 1987 , the Soviet authorities put out a statement that the UK lay seventeenth in the world economic league . |
| 2 | But Mr Dorrell said : ‘ There is no secret about the fact that the Treasury announced last summer it was engaged in a fundamental review of not just health expenditure but four other areas of Government spending to ensure that the way the money is spend reflects today 's priorities . ’ |
| 3 | There was annoyance when it was learned that the claims had first appeared in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal , both prominent business dailies , not refereed scientific journals . |
| 4 | I 'm not sure that The Correspondent came first , no I 'm not sure that anybody came first . |
| 5 | Mind you , I ca n't remember Leeds getting the same kind of coverage a year ago that the Scum got last night . |
| 6 | concerned the other day that the government had second thoughts on some of the proposals there and I hope that they will reconsider . |
| 7 | New Yorkers will tell you that the surname comes first on the cabbie 's ID . |
| 8 | But analysts pointed out that the credit had first been announced in the second quarter of last year . |
| 9 | That ‘ little grey home in the west ’ idea was n't going to fool her for a minute ; it was easy to see that the man sitting next to her loved every minute of his fast-living , action-packed life . |
| 10 | ( This is not to deny that the members of the class resemble one another — they must — but only that the resemblance comes first , and so can be the ‘ ground ’ of the class . ) |
| 11 | It was during that holiday that the notion had first come to Melissa of setting a novel in the region . |
| 12 | T.R. Shipping believed in the motto that the customer comes first . |
| 13 | Assuming he was murdered , assuming that the murderer went first into the kitchen , then he could have crept back silently and attacked Berowne from behind . |
| 14 | The programme on the conventional industries forms a key part of a ‘ framework document ’ on research that the Commission produced last November . |
| 15 | It would imply that the team playing second would know *exactly* what they would have to do to qualify . |
| 16 | I discuss this issue often with tourists I take trekking in rural Nepal , and my line is that the photograph takes second place to the opportunity for personal contact and an understanding of the culture . |
| 17 | It requires a deliberate mental effort to turn biology the right way up again , and remind ourselves that the replicators come first , in importance as well as in history . |
| 18 | Weighing these factors and the circumstances of the case , including the pending change in the legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany on the matter of discovery requests from abroad , the court held that the balance favoured first resort to the Convention . |
| 19 | We believe these improvements will ensure that The Independent remains second to none in the breadth and depth of its coverage . |
| 20 | I ordered so recklessly that the waiter looked first surprised , then delighted , then alarmed . |