Example sentences of "use [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
| 4 | The oddest is that used in the fourteenth century by the English historian Adam of Murimuth . |
| 5 | The distinction between grammar and lexis which we used in the last chapter cuts across this distinction between levels . |
| 6 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 7 | Variable speed allowed the most aggressive setting — 7 on the control dial — to be used for the first stages , and a gentler 3 or 4 cleaned up the veneer surface . |
| 8 | There are two common notes in this phrase : A , the 6th in C and the 3rd in F , is used for the first change ( bars 1 and 2 ) ; whilst E , the 3rd in C and maj7th in F , is used for the second ( bars 2 and 3 ) … |
| 9 | Strangely , it was later used for the first city telegraph ! |
| 10 | Bonaventure of the St John of God Hospitallers , welcomed everyone on arrival at the centre which was to be used for the first time . |
| 11 | It became the permanent home of the German race with the exception of 1959 when the race was staged at Avus , and 1970 when Hockenheim was used for the first time . |
| 12 | There 's a new vaccine introduced last October which is being er , used for the first time in this country to prevent meningitis in children . |
| 13 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 15 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 16 | For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session . |
| 17 | The emergency service was used for the first time on 17th . |
| 18 | Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway . |
| 19 | Delegated enforcement is the term used for the fourth principle by which private bodies are used to enforce agreements and therefore administer state policies . |
| 20 | A variation on this is to hold in each entry in the translation table , not only the value to be placed in the destination string , but also the address of a new translation table to be used for the next source character . |
| 21 | The sum of these two numbers together will allow you to choose the most important and characteristic symptoms of the case which should be used for the next step . |
| 22 | Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ? |
| 23 | Over a million gasifier units , usually powering road vehicles , were used during the Second World War . |
| 24 | The Telemine is based on the design of a manned torpedo that the Italian Navy used during the Second World War . |
| 25 | Some shipowners proved particularly receptive to a suggestion that their craft employ a technique used during the Second World War by British aircraft to confuse enemy radar and later influenced by the Royal Navy 's experience in the Falklands campaign : tankers were supplied with equipment to discharge clouds of aluminium chaff at the approach of an AS missile like Exocet , in order to divert it . |
| 26 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 27 | And which have you used during the last year ? |
| 28 | Wheels made completely of iron began to be used during the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | Not only were the standard nineteenth-century British sanctions of fine , imprisonment and whipping commonly used during the eighteenth century , but the early British courts also punished offenders with branding , the pillory , banishment and the confiscation of property , all familiar punishments in Dutch and Kandyan times . |
| 30 | Native ( natural metallic ) copper was probably first used about the eighth millennium BC. and the earliest smelted metals , copper and lead , date from the fifth or sixth millennium BC . |