Example sentences of "the [num ord] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had listening devices in the building , and early on the nineteenth allegedly heard Koresh ordering paraffin to splashed around . |
| 2 | It is also an ideal introduction to the scenery of the region , from tufa mounds and hot pools to the Virginia Falls , possibly the second best known falls in Canada , around which is a 2km portage trail , partly on wooden planks . |
| 3 | In the second most reported rape trial of the year , six youths were accused of the gang rape of two schoolgirls . |
| 4 | There is always a first sentence in which the first phrase demands continuity , the second then providing repose . |
| 5 | Quality service is what sets us aside and under-pins the company 's place among the FTSE top 100 British companies , the second best company in Europe in a Financial Times survey , the eleventh most admired company in the UK according to the Economist , and now first place in the Business Enterprise Award of the Confederation of British Industries , as Company of The Year . |
| 6 | Chasing a massive 287 for six , which included a powerful 122 off only 113 balls from Phil Simmons , South Africa succumbed to some accurate bowling to be all out for 180 in the 43rd over to give West Indies victory by 107 runs . |
| 7 | So far as washing — the fourth most disliked task — is concerned , attitudes are more evenly divided between positive , negative and ‘ do n't mind ’ categories . |
| 8 | At a Volkskammer session on April 12 " the first freely elected parliament of the GDR recognise[d] joint responsibility for the humiliation , expulsion and murder of Jewish men , women and children " . |
| 9 | BORIS YELTSIN , maverick and volleyball enthusiast , is the only plausible rival to Mikhail Gorbachev for the first freely elected president of the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | However , some of the Holkham tenants , almost in reaction to their landlord 's introduction of the alien West Country breed , decided to combine their native Norfolk and Suffolk types as being more suitable to the region and it was their efforts which , by 1810 , produced by the first selectively bred combinations of the horned Norfolk meat types and the polled dairy Suffolk in the Norfolk and Suffolk Poll . |
| 11 | By March 9th when the Germans were ready to make a renewed attempt on the Mort Homme , via Bethincourt to the northwest , the French were well-consolidated after their initial setback ; the Reichs Archives chronicle the ‘ tragedy of the first utterly collapsed assault on the Left Bank ’ But le beau Colonel , alas , was barely to outlive his triumph . |
| 12 | When Edward Shevardnadze resigned as foreign minister , he at once set up the first privately financed think-tank in the Soviet Union , the Foreign Policy Association . |
| 13 | Not only were these the first privately owned diesels to regularly haul freight trains over BR main lines , but they were also remarkable in having originated at La Grange , Illinois . |
| 14 | Rules were relaxed to allow the first privately owned locomotives unlimited access to the national rail network . |
| 15 | It is the first commercially published book illustrated by photography . |
| 16 | When they hatch they will try to follow and come close to the first slowly moving object they see which is the right sort of colour and more or less chicken-sized . |
| 17 | Eventually we reached the Aru Islands , close to the shores of west New Guinea , where we managed to record the first ever colour footage of the golden-tailed bird in its natural habitat . |
| 18 | THE first ever flower festival to be held in Monaghan is scheduled for St Macarten 's Cathedral from October 1-3 . |
| 19 | The first ever freckled duck to be born outside Australia has hatched at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands trust.The bird is under threat in its drought stricken homeland , so conservationists are delighted about the birth . |
| 20 | This long awaited exhibition is the first ever to explore Dieppe as a meeting place for French and British artists and writers . |
| 21 | They are claimed to be the first ever to enable system administrators to monitor and manage all their computing resources — computers , networks , and relational database applications — from one central management console . |
| 22 | The EC guideline is 26 ppb. * Greater use of catalytic converters in the Netherlands has led to the first ever recorded drop in Nox concentrations . |
| 23 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 24 | FRANK SINATRA ‘ 20 Golden Greats ’ 20-track compilation featuring ‘ The Lady Is A Tramp ’ and ‘ That Old Black Magic ’ among the cream of the first ever pop icon 's recordings for Capitol ( '53 –'61); |
| 25 | The Stones ' sensational Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle tour is the first ever rock concert to be immortalised on IMAX . |
| 26 | Ross started the first ever Bitches Rodeo in 1988 and Lesley followed the next year , paddling poorly in the small ladies ' competition but meeting up with her now great friend and rival , Mandy Castle . |
| 27 | They were racing for records at the Iffley Road track in Oxford … the British Milers Club celebrated their thirtieth birthday by smashing three mile records … the first ever record breaker Sir Roger Bannister was there to watch and what did he see … the men 's four by one mile relay squad breaking the UK record … the women 's relay team creating a new world record and the junior relay team taking the gold medal by knocking a minute … off the world record … |
| 28 | The first purposely constructed wet-dock was completed at Rotherhithe in 1700 and was followed at Liverpool ( 1709 ) and Bristol ( 1717 ) . |
| 29 | Almost certainly , the first sexually reproducing organisms produced only small motile gametes , as many simple animals and plants do today . |
| 30 | The earliest steps in this direction were taken by David Watson , the first permanently appointed Dean of the Course . |