Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dworkin makes it clear that he considers the second principle to be the more fundamental one under a liberal conception of equality . |
| 2 | Simon Wigg says that everybody was laughing at him because the bike looked so different but he had the last laugh … won the title and that 's what it 's all about … |
| 3 | Baffling because it is all so new and strange , and exciting because it brings the first hint , the first distant suggestion that for women an independent economic identity is possible . |
| 4 | The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane . |
| 5 | After finishing second in the World Championship in 1983 and 1984 , Alain Prost lose the " nearly man " tag in 1985 as he became the first Frenchman to win the title . |
| 6 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 7 | On the golf-course behind him a foursome of players shouted to one another as they approached the fourteenth green . |
| 8 | My right hon. and learned Friend has said as clearly as possible that he regards the second London terminal at King 's Cross as an intrinsic part of the scheme . |
| 9 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 10 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 11 | ‘ No diet is easy and I found the first few days hard , but by the end of the first week my skin became clearer , my nails grew stronger and my hair was healthy and shining . |
| 12 | The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him . |
| 13 | Now I , I 've rung the Claremont and they 've said , oh yes , it 's the conference erm you know amount and we 're very , appar we were , I was very lucky cos we got the last three rooms . |
| 14 | I 've got one C D that every time I put it on it erm speeds up really , really fast and it jumps the next track and does the same then . |
| 15 | Okay if you said the first one was saw , |
| 16 | Instead , Nijinsky came to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe after a uniquely testing season — unique because it included the first Triple Crown since 1935 . |
| 17 | Concentrating on keeping her gift level and unsquashed she climbed the Casa Guidi stairs carefully , glad when she reached the last bend . |
| 18 | I remember being thrilled when I got the first whicker of recognition from my horse and most people feel happier and more confident riding a horse they know — even if it is n't well behaved ! |
| 19 | Bruce Babbitt , the interior secretary , stepped into this fetid atmosphere on April 30th when he chaired the first of four meetings in the west to hear testimony about grazing on federal land . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
| 22 | Captain Ferzenaar 's observations on the state of Krakatoa in early August , even though made only from a boat keeping to the upwind side , are particularly useful because they provide the last reliable account of the situation before the culminating events which ensued fifteen days later . |
| 23 | We are sure that that reading is incorrect because we think the second category was meant to relate only to the skill and knowledge of the employee acquired during employment and that the Court of Appeal 's approach is consistent with authority and is correct . |
| 24 | Well yeah the wind fell but I 'm not really sure whether they went the next day or the day after that I ca n't remember . |
| 25 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 26 | and er and then those Brownies got older and I started the first Girl Guides there |
| 27 | Lyle , starting at the 10th , began badly with a bogey five but he birdied the 15th , 16th , first , sixth and seventh holes . |
| 28 | His new wife was a Parisian and he spent the last eight years of his life in Paris , where he continued to practise until he died in 1843 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 29 | Legge asked you to record the Fifth Symphony in 1951 and you recorded the last four symphonies between then and the summer of 1955 . |
| 30 | The ‘ Let ’ rule has stood since 1880 without too much fuss and I think I might get annoyed if I saw the fifth set in a Wimbledon final decided by a serve which simply hit the net and ‘ died ’ on the receiver 's side . |