Example sentences of "[num ord] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first does attempt to obtain a value , the second remains essentially a cost and not a value . |
| 2 | Unable at first to afford even a bed , she slept behind the shop on a sack filled with paper straw from the empty sweet boxes . |
| 3 | The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel ( 1834–1919 ) is generally regarded as the first to put forward the idea that these changes in the embryo retrace our evolutionary history . |
| 4 | Alternatively a Scarsten scraper can be used having first tapped away the cutter from the lower corner to avoid damage . |
| 5 | But none the less , it is better to start off with some conceptual purity or relatively homogeneous phenomenon in order first to describe better the extent of that particular type of crime , second to facilitate its sociological understanding , and finally to evaluate the likely effectiveness of possible control/regulation proposals . |
| 6 | Since the fifth century BC , when Democritus of Abdera first put forward the idea , scientists and philosophers have speculated on the nature of the fundamental constituents of matter . |
| 7 | The problem is that since the NEP was first put forward the nature of the game has undergone considerable changes . |
| 8 | If the mammals had prevailed when the opportunity first presented then the scope for speculation becomes mind-boggling . |
| 9 | It was Virchow in the middle of the nineteenth century who first put forward the concept of arterial wall injury leading to the development of the atheromatous plaque . |
| 10 | It was at the conference in the Vatican mentioned earlier that I first put forward the suggestion that maybe time and space together formed a surface that was finite in size but did not have any boundary or edge . |
| 11 | He put the senator into one of the back seats , first shoving aside a tangle of camera equipment . |
| 12 | We had last met over a year ago , when I went over to Paris to see an exhibition of the most wonderful Boucheron jewellery going back over a hundred years . |
| 13 | Both sides want to be the last to put forward a proposal , reckoning that if no rate is set , a court will pin the blame on whoever was last to reject one . |
| 14 | Note it is important in that case that not only the settlor but the spouse of the settlor was not domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time of the last to die otherwise the property would not be in an excluded property settlement — see s80(1) which refers to the last of the spouse or the settlor to cease to be beneficially entitled to an interest in possession . |
| 15 | But with the introduction of this new and quite different element we , as it were , at last cast aside the painter that tied our boat to the safe bank of blueprint detective fiction . |
| 16 | ‘ Listen , Maurice , we last spoke nearly a fortnight ago . |
| 17 | A third take away a quarter . |
| 18 | Well any suggestion if you 'd like to write it down one third take away a quarter . |
| 19 | Like a third take away a quarter how did you do it ? |