Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , nothing relating to the second NTSB recommendation in the Windsor accident report had been done . |
| 2 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 3 | Someone pointed to the fourth glass — Chinese cola — and asked what that was for . |
| 4 | Film reviewers have a simple rule for sizing up new movies : ‘ If nothing happens in the first ten minutes , ’ they say , ‘ nothing 's going to happen . ’ |
| 5 | But if progress in the past couple of decades has appeared hectic , there is plenty to come over the next two . |
| 6 | At first she 'd given no thought to missing for a month , putting it down to the trauma of losing Pa , but by the time nothing showed for the third month running there could be no doubt that the worst had happened . |
| 7 | Nothing happened over the next two days except the conclusion of the Crystal International Tournament , and a win for the ever-consistent Jose Miguel by one shot from the imported American star , Carl Krantz . |
| 8 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 9 | Most of the southern states score particularly badly on economic discrimination , but only a minority do so on the third and none do on the first . |
| 10 | Nothing compares to the first contact . |
| 11 | A total of 39 British players started the week this year , and not a single one got past the 3rd round . |
| 12 | On the second task — to cut inflation , the budget deficit and Italy 's vast public debt — Mr Ciampi must rely on his reputation as a defender of sound money to overcome opposition from populist politicians with everything to lose at the next general election . |
| 13 | In particular , examples have been found of periodic behaviour occurring at higher r than chaotic for the same values of b and P. Changes are not necessarily in the direction of greater randomness the further one goes from the first instability of steady solutions . |
| 14 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 15 | I think , assume everything starts on the first beat of the bar as well . |
| 16 | A new campaign team headed by John Wakeham , the Secretary of State for Energy and a close political associate , was appointed to replace what had generally been regarded as the ineffective one used in the first ballot . |
| 17 | They had one shot in the first half and that was seen off by Paul Reece . |
| 18 | Name something connected with the first John 's job or home area . |
| 19 | From the atria one passes into the first peristyle which has an Ionic colonnade and a central fountain . |
| 20 | I find them all delightful in the first and second year , something happens between the second year and the fourth year , and in the fourth year they seem to have lost interest in academic things . |
| 21 | ‘ Something happened in the first half and I lashed out , giving him a kick up the backside . |
| 22 | For example , although it is easy enough to decide which vowel one hears in ‘ beat ’ or ‘ bit ’ , it is much less easy to decide which vowel one hears in the second syllable of words such as , for example , ‘ easy ’ or ‘ busy ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Something to do with the Second World War , Superintendent , which happens to be an area I 've written about myself . ’ |
| 24 | 4/I continue to work in small areas across the paper , making each one blend into the next . |
| 25 | I continue to work in small areas across the paper , making each one blend into the next . |
| 26 | But skipper was then obliged to sail to a mark to fulfil a penalty imposed by the race officials for taking on a new sail in Hobart to replace one lost during the second leg . |
| 27 | We made one change for the second week of interviewing . |
| 28 | This tends not to be so , since people do n't feel the need to keep reintroducing the point that no one listened to the first time , or the next , or the next … . |
| 29 | It 's when one moves into the first person that problems occur . |
| 30 | Buckingham did not realise at first that he had been the only one to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt . |