Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another kind of polygyny is often found in species in which the males defend territories that are briefly visited by females for mating , after which the female leaves and the male awaits the next mate . |
| 32 | The male deceives the second female by appearing to be unpaired . |
| 33 | AT the end of last month the University received the first information from the UFC on its recurrent grant and funded student numbers for 1992/93 . |
| 34 | As the Owls entered the last 25 minutes , they needed just one goal to square the tie — and they looked perfectly capable of getting it . |
| 35 | Four passengers were found dead , and the driver died the next morning . ’ |
| 36 | He was just out there on the Strip telling the first lady how he wants to get to know her , and the second , and hoping out loud that both of them do n't mind about the third : ‘ Because I want to get to know her , too . |
| 37 | Nobody is claiming that the Brooklands offers the last word in performance , fuel economy , space efficiency , silence or ergonomic excellence . |
| 38 | His research work has been published extensively and he recently led a team of representatives from Britain , Germany , Switzerland and the Netherlands to create the first European master 's degree in biotechnology . |
| 39 | The Secretary of State for Defence reopened a list as an exception to allow the Association to mark the fortieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty the Queen , our patron , to the throne . |
| 40 | Some organisations pay the whole cost ( especially where long distances are involved ) ; others expect the employee to pay and some state that the employee pays the first £ x and the company pays the rest . |
| 41 | June 1930 saw two Iris IIIs ( S1263 and S1264 ) flying from Plymouth to Iceland ( Reykjavik ) as part of the ceremony to mark the 1,000th anniversary of the Icelandic Parliament . |
| 42 | And this morning the musician caught the first Concorde flight back to the US to be with his pregnant wife . |
| 43 | The construct lacking the first intron hypersensitive sites was prepared by deleting a 1kb BalI-StuI fragment from the first intron of the -300bp construct . |
| 44 | The pictures drew the first of many comparisons with Brigitte Bardot . |
| 45 | IRELAND have the expertise — they are coached by Munster senior coach Garrett Fitzgerald — and the talent to reach the last eight . |
| 46 | Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America . |
| 47 | Johansson and Rumar ( 1966 ) stopped over 1,000 drivers by the roadside 710m along the road from a road sign placed there by the experimenters and asked the drivers to describe the last road sign they had seen . |
| 48 | Both raw materials and finished products were all in bags — we unloaded the raw materials up until midnight then re-loaded the lorries from midnight onwards for the drivers to deliver the next day . |
| 49 | Then last September the Echo launched the second stage of the project , an updated disc with 161,000 articles . |
| 50 | THE province 's top triathletes are set to converge on Newtownabbey this weekend as the borough hosts the last major event in the |
| 51 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 52 | The President declared the 64th AGM open and the National General Secretary read the notice convening the meeting . |
| 53 | Levy ( 1989 ) and Flesaker ( 1991 ) have shown that assuming the changes in the riskless interest rate are known ( and that contracts are divisible ; Polakoff , 1991 ) , is equivalent to assuming that each day the traders know the next day 's risk-free interest rate with certainty . |
| 54 | The Welshman had two chances at the pink to win the last frame of the afternoon but it was Hendry , with pink and black , who went through to play John Parrott in tomorrow 's semi-final . |
| 55 | Bradley Dredge , last year 's beaten finalist , also looked poised for a 67 after a run of five straight birdies to the 11th on Dunluce , but happily settled for 69 as the wind reduced the 17th to a drive and short iron , but put the 18th out of range for everybody . |
| 56 | In August 1980 the DUC produced the second issue of their bulletin STOP . |
| 57 | The research represents the second stage of cross-national collaborative studies undertaken by colleagues working in education in a number of countries . |
| 58 | Oh , let there be someone around , she prayed silently , as she made the car fly the last few metres . |
| 59 | We are thus able to calculate the total entropy change which accompanies a chemical change and see whether the result obeys the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 60 | This is illustrated by the RR format of instruction on the IBM 370 range , shown in Figure 3.8 ( a ) , where the result replaces the first operand . |