Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For that reason I suppose when I first heard about the money my first reaction was to say ‘ No . |
| 2 | This is crucial for the mass-market mover , the car which last year accounted for 59 per cent of all the BMWs sold in the UK . |
| 3 | The outcome has removed strains between members of the committee which last week resulted in Coun. Mrs Scott expressing ‘ disappointment ’ that some other members had written to local politicians about the unit while she was away on holiday . |
| 4 | ‘ From the moment I first saw freestyle I knew it was the sport for me — there was so much more to it than ordinary skiing — it was beautiful and the ultimate in skiing athleticism . ’ |
| 5 | And we know that the tumour I first saw has got less . |
| 6 | April 9 , 1944 , brought the crew their tenth mission , on what Dan described as a ‘ Long haul ’ to the FW 190 plant at Marienburg , in East Prussia . |
| 7 | During the past three days of the voyage her first contact for many years with French life had begun to stir long-forgotten feelings in her . |
| 8 | Years later , on the day our first child was due to be born , when it became obvious that the birth was not imminent , my husband Roger suggested that we go to a film to take our minds off the event . |
| 9 | At giving the baby his last feed at ten and putting him down and hoping that he 'd stay asleep till well half past five to six the next morning . |
| 10 | Presumably he had already set in motion the machinery which next month would array a large army under his command , but when he approached Limoges he still had only a few men with him . |
| 11 | In 1953 , the National Association celebrated its Jubilee and the District its fortieth anniversary . |
| 12 | ‘ This is not about beauty or trying to appear younger , ’ says the artist whose first name is Mireille but wants to be known only as Orlan . |
| 13 | The National Assembly had given the bill its first reading in November 1990 [ see p. 37968 ] . |
| 14 | But the man whose first year as chairman has co-incided with the most traumatic period in Liverpool 's history , spoke out to ease the pressure on Souness . |
| 15 | He 's also the man who last March upbraided BR for its argument that ten minutes either way was ‘ on time . ’ |
| 16 | To help boost the challengers in the Cup itself next month , Nippon , who have been eliminated , have offered Il Moro di Venezia their asymmetric spinnakers , and France 's Ville de Paris have made their entire sail programme available to the Italians . |
| 17 | It is now being adapted to give the Met its first method for running cost accounting in 150 years . |
| 18 | He had been somewhat apprehensive about the encounter in view of the way their last meeting had ended , but fortunately she seemed to have put her irritation behind her . |
| 19 | It was the following weekend and Rachel was helping her father , who had just given the lawn its last cut before winter , to dispose of the grass cuttings on the compost heap at the bottom of the garden . |
| 20 | Anyone who reads Capital without posing the critical question of its object sees no malice in this word that ‘ speaks ’ to him : he happily continues the discourse whose first word this word may be , the ideological discourse of history , and then the historicist discourse . |
| 21 | To begin with there is the DOS SHELL , ( also known as the FRONT END ) which is a graphical user interface , ( or GUI ) and this is most likely to be the screen you first encounter when you switch on your computer . |
| 22 | Republic of Ireland .. 3 Northern Ireland ..... 0 THE celebrations were on the point of becoming a full-blown ceilidh when the score was corrected : Spain had not won 2-1 in Budapest , but the Hungarians had equalised eight minutes from time , and a bizarre set of circumstances could yet deny the Republic their first appearance in the World Cup finals . |
| 23 | The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 . |
| 24 | God had answered that prayer , and taught her that the people had their own ministry to offer in return from the time she first set foot on African soil . |
| 25 | Rubio ( 1908 ) was the first American-bred horse to triumph at Aintree , and he was followed in 1909 by Lutteur III who gave the French their first success in the race . |
| 26 | ‘ And below it another hand had scribbled a codicil : ‘ And the vagina our last ditch defence ’ ! |
| 27 | May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ? |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Bournemouth , West ( Mr. Atkinson ) must have stumbled into the debate without having been nobbled by his Whips , because he gave a reasonable , rational and consensus-seeking speech , unlike the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) , who gave the House his next election address for 37 minutes , but then proceeded to disappear , as though he is the only hon. Member with a constituency outside central London . |