Example sentences of "and the [num ord] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeking a name , John Fawcus opened a book and the first word that caught his eye was ‘ cryptic ’ So , as established institutions are apt to spring from casual beginnings , was born the club that has prospered peripatetically ever since . |
| 2 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 3 | It contains a methylation-free island , spanning the 5' flanking sequences and the first exon and a number of neuronal-specific DNase I hypersensitive sites have been identified in the upstream region as well as within the body of the gene . |
| 4 | It is quite simple to add a piece of decoration to a stocking stitch garment and the first question that arises is , how much ? |
| 5 | It was past their supper time already , and the first question that arose was whether Jennifer should sit at table with them . |
| 6 | Gas and oil pipelines were already being laid and the first oil and gas field at Eckofisk was more or less ready to come on stream at that time . |
| 7 | A written reply last week confirmed that the average waiting time between the making of an application and the first visit or inspection is about nine weeks . |
| 8 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ There are a lot of kids living under adverse conditions and the first thing that goes is their confidence . |
| 10 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 11 | It was one of the most marvellous events of my life and the first time that any of my work had ever been put on public show . |
| 12 | It knew the nights when I was more drunk than others and the first time that I turned my back . ’ |
| 13 | This purchase of a ‘ shell ’ company was the first time that the manoeuvre had been executed and the first time that a bookmaking company had been floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 14 | The audience influences the style by indicating the seriousness , formality , or otherwise that the publication should adopt and the first area that this affects is the way the text is laid out on the page . |
| 15 | but mind you we had much worse a problem that day because we had two sets of sniffer dogs who did n't like something and the first lot that were in and did n't like something that we 'd |
| 16 | The accommodation included a dining room drawing room and flats and the first agent or manager was George Andrew . |
| 17 | Rolling stock deliveries have now commenced and the first diesel and electric locos are already on site , along with a number of heavy goods vehicle shuttles . |
| 18 | So you had to choose that er , you have to do that and the fifth thing that I wrote down here which I had to do , a sequence er , of work . |
| 19 | ( To a first approximation , one is likely to encounter the first type if f is a little higher than f and the second type if f is a little lower than f . ) |
| 20 | Bearing in mind that the departments comprised a multitude of functions , and , at this point in the study , no detailed breakdown of these functions was available , two parallel exercises were considered necessary to progress the study , ie one concerned with clarifying roles and information needs , and the second exploring and quantifying the existing information base , as represented by the central and outposted filing systems . |
| 21 | The first based on er a quota system which effectively is quoting copies , i.e. the noise rating of aircraft on quite a wide number of and the second system and more recent system is one which is based solidly upon er a number of . |
| 22 | On this sheet , on page two , we 've er , we 've performed equation two , right , on the sheet and the second page and it says that there 's , there are two alternative ways of testing for structural change using dummy variables . |
| 23 | It was a match to remember and the second time that Ipswich have lost 4–3 at The Dell after leading . |
| 24 | Yes , and the second time that happened it swept across the standing walls there , and in the near end of the caldarium there was somebody standing by the wall . |
| 25 | I was interested in what people were saying about differences between feminism in the Western world and the Third World because I think Ireland epitomises that very well . |
| 26 | Under Article 37 , an obligation that has arisen for a third party can not be revoked or modified without the consent of the parties and the third party unless they have agreed otherwise . |
| 27 | Now this is people 's traditional expectation and they still have it , whereas we 're of the mind that instead of this er you 've very cleverly got in this circle and the last day that I suddenly realized that we 're all equal and moving around in a reasonably organized manner but still we 're rather loose , whereas the traditional view is a parish councillor says it and everybody does the rest , with a few er renegades and revolutionaries at varying parts in your parish . |
| 28 | and the last part that you leave . |
| 29 | With the death notices written and the last will and testament naming Kevin Keenan ( some mistake surely ! ) as the main beneficiary , Taylor clambers out of the pit , dusts himself off , and bursts into three rousing choruses of There 's a Rainbow Round My Shoulder . |
| 30 | Anselm was now , for the first time since his election as archbishop in 1093 , free from any cause of dispute with the king , and the last year and a half of his life were spent in the peaceful routine of episcopal duties , disturbed only by the growing problem of the relations of Canterbury with York . |