Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 2 | As Dr Jaffery pointed out , the British of the last century must take much of the blame for this . |
| 3 | Moreover , in the 1890s the British for the first time consistently encouraged headmen to report all cases . |
| 4 | Imagine if Mr Osborne were to try to sell the concept of milk , eggs or , heaven forbid , blue cheese to the British for the first time — how would you rate his chances ? |
| 5 | Cajuns were originally French/Canadian settlers , driven out by the British in the mid-18th century from what was then called Arcadia , now Nova Scotia . |
| 6 | Despite an English-sounding name , he was born in central Europe and fought with distinction for the British in the Second World War . |
| 7 | While all the leading players at the Masters have been asked about the prospects of the US regaining a title won by the British in the last four years , the Australians have been quietly asserting themselves . |
| 8 | The structure turned out to be very durable ; most of the colonial constitutions set up by the British in the next three-and-a-half centuries show similarities to the Virginia Company 's way of doing things , though there were sometimes refinements , such as a legislative council created as an upper house to work with the assembly ; and in several cases — especially when the majority of the population was not of British descent — the legislative body was appointed rather than elected . |
| 9 | Type C may have been present throughout — from the early to the late-fourth century — as elements in a number of contrasting designs ( e.g. pI . |
| 10 | We were married eventually on 29 December in St Cuthbert 's Church , Edinburgh , in the little chapel which was a memorial to the fallen of the First World War . |
| 11 | Please could you publicise the following in the next issue : |
| 12 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 13 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |
| 14 | Britain had sunk vast capital sums into the military installations set up in the Suez Canal Zone and at Alexandria to serve the British campaigns in the Mediterranean during the Second World War . |
| 15 | As a consequence of Peter Scudamore 's switch to Docklands Express , Steve Smith Eccles , 36 , who has had only three rides since returning from injury , was confirmed as the rider of Bonanza Boy , running in the National for the fourth successive year . |
| 16 | A national gallery for the twentieth-century before the twentieth century 's done ? |
| 17 | I will expand on this dichotomy between the clean and the polluted in the next chapter when I detail the ethnography of being a ‘ real polis ’ ; however , these few examples indicate the cultural preference and the conceptual challenge which our appearance must have presented as we embraced aspects of the bodily style of our ‘ counter-cultural ’ antagonists . |
| 18 | The average family pays nearly £2,000 a year in interest on debts and mortgages , but last year we ran our household budgets in the black for the first time since the mid-Eighties — and managed to tuck away £10.6 billion in savings . |
| 19 | Of its $6.5 million annual budget , the CAM gets less than $175,000 from city and state government , yet has managed to operate in the black for the last nine years . |
| 20 | He spoke briefly of the responsibility the rich owe to the poor of the Third World . |
| 21 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |
| 22 | The numbers change but the plight of the poor in the Third World is still the greatest issue of our times . |
| 23 | But much more important for me was to be exposed to the experience of people working with the poor in the Third World whose suffering results from debt . |
| 24 | Realisation that our affluence in Britain , including mine , is at the expense of the poor in the Third World is a troubling conclusion that demands personal action . |
| 25 | Who is to determine what the poor in the Third World really do need ? |
| 26 | Their job will be to tend the injured on the second flight back to Britain |
| 27 | Many of the elderly of the twenty-first century , however , will have experienced the effects of unemployment in the 1980s or perhaps longer , though these may not be the survivors into old age ( Moser , Fox and Jones , 1984 ; Whitehead , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | Indeed , Thomson suggests that , in relative terms , today 's pensions are lower in value than support for the elderly through the mid-nineteenth century Poor Law . |
| 29 | DOROTHEA RAMSEY was a pioneer in work for old people and one of the leading figures in establishing residential homes for the elderly during the Second World War . |
| 30 | Townsend 's thesis is that in four main areas , ‘ the dependency of the elderly in the twentieth century is being manufactured socially ’ . |