Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Premier League clubs were so unaninmous in their view against a second division that chief executive Rick Parry did not even call for a vote on the issue . |
| 2 | A second indication that these receptors might be involved in the induction of LTP has come from the finding that aminocylopentane dicarboxylate ( ACPD ) , the 1S,3R-enantiomer of which is a specific agonist for mGluRs , can augment tetanus-induced potentiation . |
| 3 | We learned for the second time that old London Underground trains never die : they are sold for another quarter-century 's work on the Isle of Wight . |
| 4 | Fortunately for animals , the views of this brilliant and eminent Frenchman were never popular in Britain , and it was in Britain towards the end of the eighteenth century that serious concerns about the welfare of animals eventually resurfaced . |
| 5 | However , horns were generally seen as desirable , especially for harnessing plough oxen , and it was not until the eighteenth century that Scottish farmers began to breed selectively for the polled factor in order to make the cattle of Galloway easier to manage on the long droves to the London markets . |
| 6 | More slowly , ministers and departments of State charged more or less specifically with the conduct of foreign affairs emerged in most West European countries , though it was not until late in the eighteenth century that this process began to reach completion . |
| 7 | Celibacy , originally a voluntary charism , became a requirement for ordination , although it would not be until the eleventh century that this law would be fully imposed on the Latin Church . |
| 8 | ’ But it appears from the fourth plea that that marriage had already been agreed on , and that the testator knew it . |
| 9 | The principles of electromagnetism had been established by the late eighteenth century , but it was not until the mid-nineteenth century that any sort of measurements could be made of the small currents produced by living tissue . |
| 10 | It was only the fourth time that one horse had completed a clear round . |
| 11 | This was only the fourth time that this legislation had been invoked . |
| 12 | On the same day the first indication that such dialogue was already under way came with the announcement that evacuation of Armenian and Russian refugees and servicemen 's families from Baku had been suspended after the Popular Front had agreed to guarantee their safety ( more than 30,000 people , including most of Baku 's Armenian community , having already been evacuated in the previous 10 days ) . |
| 13 | Most of the voluntary organisations considered it their duty to inculcate a proper sense of shame in their charges , until World War II brought about the first intimation that unmarried mothers were beginning to avoid the hostels run by charitable institutions for that very reason . |
| 14 | In the first issue that seminal writer of London and Notting Hill in the late 1950s , Colin Macinnes , wrote on that seminal figure of London and Notting Hill in the 1960s , Michael Abdul Malik . |
| 15 | My first suspicion that these chaps were not what they seemed was aroused as I listened . |
| 16 | The first thing that Nigel got down to was , as I expected , fixing up his hi-fi , and on our very first evening that vast area reverberated with the great big beautiful noise of ‘ Also sprach Zarathustra ’ , so I felt truly at home . |
| 17 | It is considered of the first importance that young persons should receive correct and permanent impressions on this subject and to assist in securing that object it is intended to exhibit a model of a SLAVE SHIP which was recently captured upon the coast of Africa . |
| 18 | And Wilson here is , we might say , the future — the first sign that British society is going to throw off the shackles of racism and colonialism and produce something genuinely multicultural , like … er … him ! ’ |
| 19 | LiPuma et al provided the first evidence that person-to-person transmission may occur . |
| 20 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 21 | International Day — the first day that local schools begin their support of their adopted nation in the ‘ Welcome to the World ’ project . |
| 22 | In fact , wrote John Arlott soon afterwards when the astonished south of England grapevine had recovered itself , ‘ He struck 227 runs of such quality against Hampshire 2nd XI that experienced players on the other side were amazed at his brilliance . ’ |
| 23 | It might seem at first sight that this pace was unambiguously beneficial to demand ( being crucial to market growth ) and equally unambiguously detrimental to profitability ( being the only thing preventing a phenomenal profits bonanza ) . |
| 24 | The majority report concluded that there should be equal representation of owners and trade unions ; and then proceeds straight to the view that a third group of co-opted directors should be appointed , adding as their first reason that those directors would bring special experience to the board room , and a broader and more detached view of the company 's affairs . |
| 25 | He wrote two books : The Living Brain ( 1953 ) , which was popular science and was the first introduction that many people had to the brain , and a novel , Further Outlook ( 1956 ) , which was not very successful . |
| 26 | Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties . |
| 27 | The first thing that that litany reminds us of is that when it came to success , in the immortal words of Mae West ( put into her mouth by scriptwriter Vincent Lawrence ) , goodness had nothing to do with it . |
| 28 | The first doubt that this proposal might , after all , be genuine occurred to her . |
| 29 | It is believed to be the first time that prospective officers have sought election on a collective basis . |
| 30 | This is the first time that Western technology has been integrated with Soviet-designed reactors . |