Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Energised by new coach Bobby Ross , the Chargers are at last rewarding their patient fans . |
| 2 | Even if the Germans were at last being pushed back , there were still the Japanese to demolish , and they were no soft touch by all accounts . |
| 3 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 4 | The date for the election was at first announced for November 26 . |
| 5 | In the end , however , the decision was at first deferred , and then quietly abandoned . |
| 6 | And when the little bouncing balls came up onscreen , pointing out the subtitled lyrics for ‘ Fixin' To Die Rag ’ , the ciderheads were in seventh heaven . |
| 7 | The settlement is for next year only and the three-year planning system is discontinued ; from now on figures for future years will only be indicative . |
| 8 | The only thing that I would ask everybody in Oxfordshire is to write to our M P's here because er yes it 's true that I do n't know what the returns are from last night 's voting , but I do know that er the only local MP that I can see on the voting on the last occasion was John Patten , here in Abingdon , and he voted no . |
| 9 | The drains were at last able to carry the surface water and only a few isolated areas remained flooded . |
| 10 | The college was at last loosening up . |
| 11 | No , the intention is before next year , by next year . |
| 12 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 13 | In the event , however , it was not for several years — not until well after the composer 's death — that the missing portion of the overture was at last copied into the score . |
| 14 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 15 | Under the skin , though , the craft are sufficiently different to generate cautious optimism that the hovercraft is at last coming of age . |
| 16 | Harold Macmillan spoke in Cape Town , in February 1960 , of the ‘ wind of change ’ and directed the unwilling attention of his countrymen towards an Empire on which the sun was at last setting . |
| 17 | He was cooking ; murder was , for the moment at any rate , not in his thoughts , the sun was at last shining in the way it should do on a seaside holiday , and there were still three more days of holiday to go . |
| 18 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 19 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 20 | Russia chose the latter option , and her campaign in the south was at first to have a most promising outcome . |
| 21 | When the Wolof children were asked to put together the pictures or objects in an array that were most alike and to give their reasons , the question was at first put in the form ‘ Why do you say ( or think ) that these are alike ? ’ . |
| 22 | The tramway was at first operated by horses which were stabled at the rear of the present Ashby 's butchers shop . |
| 23 | The end of the War was at last in sight , and with it breaking of the electoral truce . |
| 24 | If the truth is at last unavoidable , it ran , and if it must bring consolation in its train , then surely there should be no need to dread its disclosure ? |
| 25 | In 1969 the plight of the tiger was at last officially recognized . |
| 26 | Left empty and decaying for some years , the buildings were at last put up for sale . |
| 27 | On the day the lights were at last put up , Ceauşescu appeared and showed his displeasure with the design . |
| 28 | The paintings were at first estimated at FFr4–5 million by Paris expert Eric Turquin and their sale was planned to help purchase a scanner for the hospital . |
| 29 | The lecturer was at first impatient at being called from a tutorial session , before his vanity was fed the magical words of ‘ Foreign and Commonwealth Office ’ . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the Trains were in 5th place in the second group and the lead had been taken over by Gyulay/Petervari . |