Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it came about that Tanberg anticipated the second ingredient in the Fleischmann and Pons story : he introduced ‘ electrolysis ’ as a way of encouraging the hydrogen to come together . |
| 2 | It will be recalled from discussion of Table 1 , Expenditure on libraries and computing , that Strathclyde had the second lowest expenditure per student on libraries in 1986-87 . |
| 3 | The Britons have never shed barbarism ; they are proud to tell you that Tacitus said the last word about Germans . |
| 4 | Smith became a Carnegie trustee , and it was thanks to the association between the two men that Keighley became the first town in England to acquire a new Carnegie free library . |
| 5 | It is claimed that Altrincham has the second highest capital income in the country . |
| 6 | The crucial difference is that Marx emphasised the first element , while Weber emphasised the second . |
| 7 | It was twenty-five minutes after Morse had left the scene that Lewis discovered the first , fat clue : a sheet of yellow A4 paper on which the details of the Historic Cities of England Tour had been originally itemised ; and on which the time of the final item that day had been crossed through boldly in blue Biro , with the entry now reading : |
| 8 | ‘ Through the 90s , Conservative Government will draw on and be sustained by our principles to ensure that Britain enters the next millennium strong , confident , generous and free ’ John Major |
| 9 | Through the '90s , Conservative Government will draw on , and be sustained by , our principles to ensure that Britain enters the next millennium strong , confident , generous and free . |
| 10 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 11 | It is a matter of history that Austin became the first Englishman to regularly employ the new-fangled back crawl , which all swimmers use today but was then regarded as something of an eccentricity . |
| 12 | So it was that Huddersfield became the first club to win the Cup with a penalty . |