Example sentences of "the [num ord] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Effectively this happened in two stages — the first in the 1920s and 30s when British colonialism wanted to create an intermediate class in East African countries , and the second after World War II when Britain in common with other Western European countries was faced with a chronic shortage of labour . |
| 2 | The first might be indexed : EDUCATION — WOMEN — INDIA — 1830–1930 ; the second perhaps SUFFRAGE — BRITAIN — 1830/1930 ( perhaps also POLITICS ) . |
| 3 | Other rarities include the second only record in London of the foliose lichen Peltigera didactyla , which was only discovered during the survey , funded by WWF and UK2000 . |
| 4 | Now follow the first backwards pointer ( i.e. back to the node we have just come from , e.g. from the ‘ c ’ node back to the ‘ d ’ node ) , and take the next route forwards again ( to the ‘ l ’ node , giving another complete candidate string ljadl ) . |
| 5 | Yet , according to The Times ( 7 February 1984 ) , ‘ The first most Cabinet ministers knew was when Sir Geoffrey Howe announced the decision in the Commons on January 25 . ’ |
| 6 | George had got the deposit ready for a house and made the first down payment on a dining suite . |
| 7 | John Wildig travelled on the first down train , we both , with his sons , went on the West Wales train from Carmarthen to Fishguard and return , and we followed the double header from Llandovery to Craven Arms . |
| 8 | Barbara has won countless glamorous grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977 . |
| 9 | Barbara has won countless Glamorous Grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977 . |
| 10 | The catalogue constitutes the first ever monograph on the artist . |
| 11 | This will be the first ever opportunity for editors of Christian magazines in the Middle East to meet to share their common concerns and examine their role in the Church and in society . |
| 12 | This will be the first ever opportunity for editors of Christian magazines in the Middle East to meet to share their common concerns and examine their role in the Church and in society . |
| 13 | In the first ever referendum of its kind , voters in Amsterdam have supported a proposal to ban cars from the city centre . |
| 14 | Scotland also produced the first ever court case in which a sign language interpreter was used , as well as a remarkable heroine in Charlotte Bain . |
| 15 | This was to be a great success for him , being the first ever history of an English county . |
| 16 | A spokesman said : ‘ This is the first ever incident apparently involving a plug-in Safe and Sound baby listener . |
| 17 | In the first ever issue of Practical Fishkeeping , December 1978 , we listed the top 25 community fish . |
| 18 | The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability . |
| 19 | It 's the first ever donation made by the Lottery and Dr Chris Payne is doctor at the Churchill Hospital . |
| 20 | Tony Cozier reports from Barbados on the first ever Test match between West Indies and South Africa . |
| 21 | If that is the case you 'll be the first ever case of a Western government being so reprimanded . |
| 22 | Then for his doctoral thesis ( 1799 ) he gave the first ever proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra ( Section 4.8 ) . |
| 23 | and you can see the highlights of the Blenheim Horse Trials on Channel Four on Saturday September the twenty sixth … the next big sunday event for horse fans around here will be in November when Cheltenham races stage the first ever sunday jump meeting … they 've been unveiling their plans today … here 's Mark Kiff |
| 24 | They are searching for passengers who made the first ever trip with them to Jersey 40 years ago . |
| 25 | They are searching for passengers who made the first ever trip with them to Jersey 40 years ago . |
| 26 | In 1898 , the first ever photograph of the Shroud showed that the image , when seen in negative , is strikingly life-like ( fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 27 | The border-opening debacle and the wave of mutual recrimination which it engendered appeared to threaten the tentative July agreement to hold the first ever summit between the Premiers of the two Korean states in Seoul , the South Korean capital , on Sept. 4-7 . |
| 28 | We decided to do it as it was the first ever marathon championships for women and because of the sentimental and historical feelings attached to the course . |
| 29 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 30 | In 1992 , the first ever conference of East European banking institutes was held in Hungary with help from the Know How Fund and the CIB . |