Example sentences of "and the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | These and the 33rd Armoured Regiment , whose tanks were no match for those of a German Panzer division , did their best , but it was hopeless . |
2 | Is the 7th largest brewer in the world by volume and the 3rd largest by operating profit . |
3 | In 1962 , the Institute of Directors ( IOD ) established a Retirement Advisory Bureau ; and the first private retirement consultancy was set up in London in 1965 ( IPM 1965 ) . |
4 | The pair made the longest unsupported polar journey and the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic land mass . |
5 | Dr Allan said the two men were bearing up well and were in better condition than had been expected after making the longest unsupported polar trip and the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic landmass . |
6 | In spite of their exhaustion , their jubilation at making the longest unsupported polar trip and the first unsupported crossing of Antarctica was unmistakeable . |
7 | It was three-quarters of a length back to his stablemate , a 40–1 chance , and the first six home were all drawn low . |
8 | No England/Scotland ; AND the first bloody game I R5 commerntary on is f***ing Scum vs Spurs ( and they won ! ) . |
9 | Existing Golf diesels are sold out , and the first 1992 models with the new larger body in right-hand-drive form began arriving on this side of the Channel last month . |
10 | Now , after six games without defeat and the first away win in place , striker Gordon Durie is even talking about joining the title race . |
11 | All entries to the Supercrozzle will be put in a drum and the first correct entries drawn out will be the winners . |
12 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
13 | In the late 1970s , after a considerable hoo-ha , girls were recognised as fit to be young explorers and the first mixed expedition went to Arctic Norway in 1980 . |
14 | They were also used to power the first oil-engined tractor and the first practical oil-engined locomotive , both in 1896 . |
15 | The entry for the case was located in the birth register and the first preceding and the first succeeding entries were selected who matched the case with respect to sex , date of birth ( plus or minus six months ) , district of birth registration , and family health services authority of the child 's first general practitioner . |
16 | Zeppelins appeared over the south coast and the first civilian war casualties were a little boy and his sister killed when a bomb destroyed their cottage at King 's Lynn . |
17 | His film roles include The Virgin Soldiers and The First Great Train Robbery . |
18 | There was the revulsion at the fluidity of life and the first tube of paint , the revulsion at the meticulousness of painting with a brush and the first pot of paint , the revulsion at the viscousness of paint and the first readymade , the revulsion at the arbitrariness of the readymades and the first use of glass . |
19 | The UN plans to deploy 3,500 soldiers and the first 500 were due to arrive in Mogadishu today . |
20 | In 1990 a woman rose to the top at West Point , by becoming brigade commander and the first female captain of the corps of cadets . |
21 | He was succeeded by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a member of the country 's Supreme Court and the first female President in Haiti 's 186-year history . |
22 | There was also the publication of various other sources relating to Mary , such as the Collections relating to Mary Queen of Scots by James Anderson ( 1727–8 ) ; and the first critical edition of John Knox 's History of the Reformation in Scotland ( 1732 ) . |
23 | The Oral School for the Deaf 's fine academic record is not disputed — the school produced the first deaf Fellow of the Geological Society , and the first deaf Ph.D . |
24 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
25 | Candidates will have been ranked in an unalterable order of preference by the party , and the first five will be named on the ballot paper . |
26 | And the first small tongues of flame ignited somewhere inside her . |
27 | The survey begins on Sunday and the first 10 patients to be discharged from each of 20 wards chosen at random will be given a comprehensive questionnaire to complete anonymously . |
28 | It was another good example of why the sooner it is possible to delay the first round of the World Group matches so that there is more than a full week between them and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year , the better . |
29 | A Reconstruction Committee was formed in March 1916 which was turned in July 1917 , under the impact of growing labour unrest and the first Russian revolution , into the Ministry of Reconstruction . |
30 | There was a slight seasonal effect of gradually declining response to models , but this could not have biased the results because the response to crest accentuation went in the opposite direction , increasing significantly between early ( small crests ) presentations and the first accentuated crest presentations . |