Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranald , do you find a rock the size of these two , and we 'll use them as a base for the first skep . |
| 2 | Their convictions were overturned on a technicality by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals leading to their retrial in 1991 . |
| 3 | Perhaps today it should be turned into a couplet with the second line being ‘ Half your pension 's too much to pay ! ’ |
| 4 | The book 's chief interest lies in the fact that Caroline Capel was a sister of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey and that she and her family , for financial reasons , were living in Brussels at the time of Waterloo . |
| 5 | There is a half sister by this marriage , and a sister by the second marriage , for which Madame Lagerfeld appeared in a tiered red dress , designed by Madeleine Vionnet . |
| 6 | I was a subaltern in the 1st Gordons ! " |
| 7 | The last difference is really a function of the first two — credit marketing services in the US is a mature and substantial market . |
| 8 | According to a census in the sixteenth century , Sarajevo was 100 per cent Muslim , but in Bitola ( Monastir ) in Macedonia 20.2 per cent were Christian and 4.8 per cent Jewish , and in Skopje the proportion was 23.7 per cent Christian and 1.5 per cent Jewish . |
| 9 | It will be seen that Figure 1.1 , which introduced two individuals X and Y , is a case of the third debate . |
| 10 | Dorothy Marshall describes a case in the eighteenth century which resulted in a servant being hanged : she held a candle while her lover slit the butler 's throat . |
| 11 | I 've been loafing a bit for the last few days . |
| 12 | It 's also good I think for , for cricket in general that he 's got a pitch that helps him a bit on the fifth day and that 's how it should be . |
| 13 | Then , in the fixed-point binary format , the presence or absence of a bit at the ith bit position indicates the presence or absence of the ith power of two in the numeric value held . |
| 14 | And , as subscribers with decades ' worth of Punch purchasing behind them testify on pages 56–59 , the effect was a bit like the first plunge into an icy pool : shocking at first , but pleasantly bracing once you got used to it . |
| 15 | Australia made a good start and we were a bit behind the eighth ball after |
| 16 | Originally there had stood a medieval castle alone , then it had been Neo-Gothicized and French Châteaued a bit in the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | But peter pulled away a bit in the second round ( Thomson 71 ; Thomas 74 ) and he won by four strokes . |
| 18 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 19 | Now I suppose that kind of model of what goes on in families has been disrupted a bit in the last few years because increasingly people have drawn attention to the way in which um often the person doing the abuse is the most powerful person within that family situation . |
| 20 | Go down go down a level for the first |
| 21 | A Marine during the Second World War , Jones was cited at Iwo Jima . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , in 1918 , following the retirement of the Rev W B Sleight as President , the Rev F W Gilby M.A. agreed to occupy this position as a stop-gap until the election of a successor at the first Congress after the end of the First World War . |
| 23 | MITI is now developing the workplans for a ‘ New Information Processing Technology Programme ’ as a successor to the Fifth Generation Programme . |
| 24 | In the past the GDR had never established diplomatic relations with Israel , partly because the regime refused to admit that the GDR was responsible for war crimes or in any way a successor to the Third Reich . |
| 25 | They are DEVOTED to each other — she 's seeing a toy boy and he 's had a mistress for the last fourteen years |
| 26 | Renault showed they had a winner for the first time at the 1979 French Grand Prix when Jean-Pierre Jabouille ( Fra ) was first , with team-mate Rene Arnoux third . |
| 27 | Woodmill defeated Humberside 3–2 with a winner inside the last thirty seconds . |
| 28 | Mr Lamont , who sees the Budget as his attempt at political rehabilitation , was boastful , saying he believed last year 's Budget had contributed to the Tory victory at the election and this one would also prove a winner in the next election in 1996 ‘ or whenever the election comes ’ . |
| 29 | Shall we leave it that I will consider making a direction at the next hearing in relation to that figure and the question of any interest thereon but will defer any such er decision until you 've had time to consider it . |
| 30 | The front-page story in the Star — JUDGE 'S MERCY : WIFE KILLED KINKY COPPER Sordid facts of sex life kept secret — told how the judge deliberately drew a veil over the last days of the victim , informing the court that the defendant went berserk after being subjected to ‘ abuse , violence and sexual perversions ’ . |