Example sentences of "in the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WALES number one woman player Natasha Williams , 16 , of Prestatyn , finished runner-up in the ninth annual international youth table tennis championships in Luxembourg . |
| 2 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |
| 3 | Play could also be abandoned today in the fifth one-day international after an agreement reached yesterday about what to do if there is crowd misbehaviour among the 25,000 sell-out crowd . |
| 4 | Didier Auriol , the French driver , drove off the road in Tuscany and wrote off his new car in the fifth special stage , while Massimo Biasion , the Italian world champion , suffered a puncture in the next special stage . |
| 5 | Under its 1958 Constitution ( revised in 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , 1974 and 1976 ) executive power in the Fifth French Republic is vested in a President , who is directly elected for a seven-year term by universal suffrage and by an absolute majority of votes cast . |
| 6 | Under its 1958 Constitution ( revised in 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , 1974 and 1976 ) executive power in the Fifth French Republic is vested in a President , who is directly elected for a seven-year term by an absolute majority of votes cast . |
| 7 | On 2 December 1793 , having adopted the alias of Silas Tomkyn Comberbache , he secretly enlisted in the 15th Light Dragoons . |
| 8 | Sword used by Coleridge as a recruit in the 15th Light Dragoons . |
| 9 | In 1969 he became a battery commander in the 47th Light Regiment , RA , at Yeovil , though four months of this period were spent on an emergency tour with 4th Battery in Belfast . |
| 10 | Pupils from 16 Colchester schools went to the University of Essex to take part in the 43rd annual Colchester Schools ' Music Festival . |
| 11 | In 1822 he was commissioned as lieutenant in the 9th Royal Dragoons , transferring to the 12th Lancers in 1826 . |
| 12 | Altogether in his Palace career , Jimmy Hamilton made 16 FA Cup appearances at centre-half and , later , at right-half and he scored our last goal in the 7–0 rout of Luton in the 3rd Round Replay in January 1929 to equal Palace 's best ever FA Cup score . |
| 13 | The first pack of Desert Rats is now trying to cope with the soaring heat of Saudi Arabia ; about four hundred troops in the seventh armoured brigade began arriving there today in an air lift from Germany . |
| 14 | It 's part of a £40,000 prize bonanza to encourage you to take part in the seventh annual Daily Mirror British Video Awards . |
| 15 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |
| 16 | wins its independence from South Africa ; SWAPO and other exiles return to take part in the first general election . |
| 17 | The Human Rights Protection Party ( HRPP ) , led by Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana , was returned to power on April 5 in the first general election under the country 's recently introduced universal adult suffrage . |
| 18 | In the first general election to the Grand National Assembly , in November 1983 , ANAP , led by Özal , won a decisive victory over the Nationalist Democracy Party , which was backed by the military . |
| 19 | Participation of over 80 per cent of the workforce was reported in some areas , in the first general strike in Italy since May 1989 . |
| 20 | In the first practical sign of a cooling of passions , the old Soviet flag was restored as an interim measure to about 20 ships of the fleet , which on Wednesday had hoisted the Russian ensign of St Andrew . |
| 21 | In the mining region of Asturias , however , it developed into a full-scale revolt involving not only UGT workers but also , in the first practical manifestation of the ‘ Workers ’ Alliance' , the CNT and the Communists . |
| 22 | This was demonstrated in the first political crisis of wartime , a carry over from peacetime . |
| 23 | Our diagnostic efficiency is shown by a diagnostic yield in the first endoscopic session of 82% ; further sessions were needed in the rest of patients mainly because of non-removable blood clots . |
| 24 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 25 | The background to the Essex initiative is described in the first annual report for 1981–1982 ( Taylor , 1983 ) as follows : |
| 26 | There was , he pointed out , no such article in the first Soviet constitution , adopted in Lenin 's time . |
| 27 | There were , I found myself thinking , a hell of a lot of people called Roger in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 28 | There is no order of hymns in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 29 | Pike 's rug was a topic of endless fascination in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 30 | She represented Austria in the first European Women 's Bridge Championship of 1935 ( winning it , and the next in 1936 ) . |