Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , so it still takes the best part of an hour to move the next ten paces past passport control . |
| 2 | They took an hour to reach the first town , and another hour to find the tourist office and fend off boys with motor bikes who rapped on the windows . |
| 3 | England needed an hour to remove the last two wickets . |
| 4 | An owl tops the first of the two sculptures unveiled by Jilly Cooper today . |
| 5 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |
| 6 | While it is an oversimplification to view the first decade of operation as some kind of golden age , it is fair to say that until this point the EEC had worked fairly smoothly . |
| 7 | She always wanted him to tell her where he came from because she said , as she had said to Creggan on his first night , that for an eagle to survive the first thing he must know is where he comes from , and he must not forget his memories however distant they may be . |
| 8 | THE SON of a Caithness crofter will take his rightful place among great Scottish inventors today when an exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the fax machine opens in London . |
| 9 | It may follow Aconite if an attack returns the next morning . |
| 10 | Nicklaus had finished , so if Jacklin an Trevino parred the last two holes , they 'd have a playoff . |
| 11 | Oh it was just er just I suppose luck , just an idea to have the last sheaf it was called the maiden sheaf . |
| 12 | An order requiring the third , fourth and fifth defendants , who were not parties to any Euramco transaction and who did not receive anything under any Euramco transaction , to repay the investors the money paid for the Euramco shares , is , he submits , a compensatory order , not a restitutionary one . |
| 13 | The applicant sought judicial review and an order directing the first bench to determine the information and relied upon section 9(2) of the Magistrates Courts Act 1980 . |
| 14 | This model assumes that an individual accepts the first job whose wage dominates the benefit level adjusted for the disutility of work ( see ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) ) . |
| 15 | The plaintiff sought a declaration that the use of Bridge Road and the section of Medway Road between Bridge Road and its junction up to its junction with Mill Road by heavy goods vehicles coming to and from the premises of the fourth and fifth defendants at the Chatham Dockyard between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. constituted a public nuisance ; an injunction prohibiting the fourth and fifth defendants from causing or permitting heavy goods vehicles coming to or from their premises at Chatham Dockyard to use those roads between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. ; an injunction prohibiting the dock company from permitting heavy goods vehicles to enter or leave the Chatham Dockyard by the Gillingham Gate between those hours ; and a mandatory injunction requiring the dock company to take all steps within its power to prevent the use of those roads by heavy goods vehicles of the fourth and fifth defendants between those hours . |
| 16 | As there is a danger that people will be confused and might buy from the second retailer thinking that they are buying from the other , he should be able to obtain an injunction preventing the second retailer from continuing to use the name he has chosen . |
| 17 | sitting as a deputy judge of the Queen 's Bench Division granted the plaintiff in an action for breach of an agreement embodied in a Tomlin order , Jean-Pierre Irtelli , an injunction restraining the first defendants , Renato Squatriti and Livia Vidor ( trading as L'Aiglon ) ( ‘ the defendants ’ ) , ‘ by themselves or their servants and agents from selling disposing or otherwise dealing with seeking to sell dispose or deal with the premises at 220 , Westbourne Grove , London W.11 . ’ |