Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard the boxes were arrived from London , and on the 4th sorted the ten guinea etchings but found in a most unaccountable ( sic ) that all 13 Conistons with about as many more were pricked through with nails … . ’ |
| 2 | At the same time , Libet set up a procedure for allowing subjects to report the time at which they first experienced the conscious intention to act . |
| 3 | I HAVE loved visiting peat bogs ever since , as a sixth-former , I first experienced the wonderful combination of springy surface and spongy sphagnum , glistening red sundews and white bog cotton that they offer . |
| 4 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |
| 5 | Teacher placement in industry have formed the backbone of the UBI activities since the project was set up in 1977 , but formal schemes date back to the early 1960s , with LEAs such as Leicestershire acting as pioneers in the field when the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) first piloted the three week Introduction to Industry Scheme for teachers . |
| 6 | When I first got the macro lens , I tried a whole range of permutations with aperture , shutter speeds , flash angles and camera angles . |
| 7 | In the early 1970s , when the Dutch first got the legal go-ahead on medical killing , the British were developing palliative care — and so the two nations have continued . |
| 8 | Precisely who first devised the conical form of the sail on the special stunters that followed out of California and Hawaii is not recorded.The camber of the sail was natural anyway , the Radcliffe bridle had established the bridle points , but the new designers ( Tony Cyphert and Don Tabor are often credited ) added the rear cross-spar and this permitted the trihedron bridle which also absorbed the strain on glass fibre spars . |
| 9 | Ms Mackenzie first approached the Environmental Committee last May , but so far the result has n't been encouraging . |
| 10 | According to the magazine International Defense Review , The Argentine government first approached the Swiss company Tek-Sea last summer . |
| 11 | The mediaeval Greek word for galley is katergon , and it was in this nautical sense that the word first entered the Russian vocabulary . |
| 12 | Cognos notes that it first entered the Japanese market in 1985 and initially sold its products there through distributors for Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Data General Corp hardware . |
| 13 | Pondering the moment when the Sex Pistols became the most notorious pop group in the world , and the word ‘ punk ’ first entered the popular vocabulary as a synonym for delinquency and devilment , future historians will possibly set their clocks at 5.30 on the afternoon of 1 December 1976 . |
| 14 | But the danger to his life is every bit as acute as it was when an aged cleric in a distant country first pronounced the fateful sentence . |
| 15 | When we first cloned the human globin genes we realised that every cloned gene is person-specific , and therefore contains the particular sequences that instruct most of the features which we inherit and that determine our individuality . |
| 16 | The first used the algebraic formalism developed by Hendrickson and coworkers ; the other treats multiwavelength data as arising from a conventional multiple isomorphous replacement experiment , with the inclusion of anomalous scattering , and uses a maximum-likelihood algorithm to refine heavy-atom parameters . |
| 17 | Herder ( 1784–91 ) first used the significant plural , ‘ cultures ’ , in deliberate distinction from any singular or , as we would now say , unilinear sense of ‘ civilization ’ . |
| 18 | By the time Ceauşescu first visited the Soviet capital , the new wedding-cake skyscrapers of the University and the Foreign Ministry , along with less outlandish and more uncomfortable blocks of flats , towered over the ancient heart of Muscovy . |
| 19 | When solving the up- or down-problem at node k in preceding sections , we first modified the original tableau of LPk to allow for the new or changed , upper or lower bound . |
| 20 | It was one of the medical records clerks who first mentioned the sponsored walk to me when I had visited the hospital to give a lecture to some of the nursing staff shortly after I had started my maternity leave . |
| 21 | The first involved the social responsibility of management . |
| 22 | When Victorian naturalists first studied the African elephant in the field they were convinced that the dominant member of the herd must be the oldest bull . |
| 23 | It was in the Seventies that Dirk first learnt the useful art of poisoning . |
| 24 | In October 1959 , the Soviet probe Luna 3 first photographed the far side of the Moon , which can never be seen from the Earth . |
| 25 | First came the disappointing news that House of Fraser is to close its branch of Binns in the town . |
| 26 | First came the clashing sound of stone against stone and the resounding thud of boulders dropped to the ground ; then the recurrent frantic yelping . |
| 27 | She admitted she suffered some gentle ribbing when she first joined the all-male contingent but was now accepted as a member of the team . |
| 28 | Whatever the modern relationships between scientific ecology and environmentalism , we must beware of assuming that similar relationships governed the attitudes of the biologists who first began the systematic study of ecology in the 1890s . |
| 29 | Peter Martyr d'Anghiera , the Italian court historian ( though to the Spanish court ) who was the inventor of the phrase ‘ the New World ’ , the man who first announced the existence of a substance called India-rubber , and the principal contemporary chronicler of Columbus and all those others who explored and travelled to the ‘ Orbe Novo ’ in the fifteenth century , wrote an extraordinary account of how Balboa first heard the definite news . |
| 30 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |