Example sentences of "the [num ord] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke of Bedford was appointed Grand Visitor and Samuel Whitbread the Second became Perpetual President . |
| 2 | Both robbers were white and aged about 17 , one about 5ft 9in tall and was wearing a mustard or gold baseball-type jacket , which was either woollen or fleecy , the second wore dark clothing . |
| 3 | The first was to be run on strictly business lines , while the second needed financial support . |
| 4 | The two contentions can seem analogous , but the second concerns overt motive , the first a highly arguable interpretation . |
| 5 | The first is a request for the pleasure of their company while the second implies slight patronage , and highlights their inability to go out on their own and their need now to be ‘ taken ’ . |
| 6 | Batterbee and his team tested six hypotheses with unimpeachable rigour : the first was that Scotland 's lakes were naturally acid and had not changed ; the second was that acidification was slow and pre-industrial ; the third blamed changes in burning or grazing ; the fourth implicated just conifer planting , and the fifth , decreased agricultural liming ; only the sixth implicated acid deposition from the combustion of fossil fuels . |
| 7 | The first compared face-to-face interviewing both with telephone interviewing and with a mixed-mode approach . |
| 8 | Consequently these areas are the first to exhibit extra fat and the last to actually reduce . |
| 9 | The first scanning acoustic microscope ( SAM ) was built in 1973 by a team at Stanford University in California , headed by Professor Calvin Quate . |
| 10 | Inset left Cooks organized the first advertised chartered air tour in 1927 , to view the world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey defend his title against Gene Tunney . |
| 11 | Timaeus , a Sicilian historian albeit resident in Athens , was the first to collect extensive information on the past of the Romans . |
| 12 | The historians Ephorus and Timaeus , who in the fourth and third centuries B.C. were the first to collect extensive information about Gaul and Spain , do not seem ever to have visited these countries . |
| 13 | President Yoweri Museveni 's government is the first to give serious thought to the Karimojong problem . |
| 14 | The first received full support of the trade union , the second did not . |
| 15 | In 1984 , the first SCE Standard grade courses started to replace O grades in Scotland , with the first examinations in 1986 . |
| 16 | He was one of the first to stock frozen food in the Fifties . |
| 17 | And one tends to find that languages — French/German — are the first to abandon mixed ability , usually in the second year , sometimes the third year of a comprehensive school . |
| 18 | It happens perhaps sooner in languages and in science than it does say in history or English or geography , and certainly language teachers find much more difficulty in teaching mixed ability classes and one tends to find that languages — French/German — are the first to abandon mixed ability , usually in the second year , sometimes the third year , of comprehensive school . |
| 19 | The Beatles track was the first to feature new drummer Simon Smith . |
| 20 | Douglas Wilder became the first elected black Governor in US history when he was sworn in at Richmond , Virginia , on Jan. 13 . |
| 21 | They were also the first to join permanent trade unions . |
| 22 | You know it d the first thought bloody hell . |
| 23 | The Army 's new anti-tank weapons are being designed with ‘ tandem warheads ’ ; the first explodes reactive armour and the second penetrates the shell of the tank . |
| 24 | Olive Edis is significant technically because she refused to use artificial light , was one of the first to use early colour photography ( Autochrome ) and cinematography — movies . |
| 25 | They will never and under any circumstances be the first to use armed force against each other or against third states … |
| 26 | It was also the first to use controlled pre-heating of boiler feed-water . |
| 27 | Left : Paul Garber 's Target kite , one of the first to use two-line control as known today . |
| 28 | , Archibald ( 1774–1841 ) , author of the first published Manx dictionary , was born in the village of Colby , Isle of Man , the third of four sons of William Cregeen , a cooper and small farmer , and his wife Mary Fairclough ( ‘ Faircliff ’ in the marriage register of the adjoining parish of Malew , 13 November 1764 ) , who is reported to have come from Ireland . |
| 29 | The first set employed bigram transitions , the second trigrams . |
| 30 | Though Jackson was the first to congratulate Olympic champion McKoy , the disappointment was written all over his face . |