Example sentences of "[adv] the [num ord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a full house of 185 at last Tuesday 's event in Edinburgh University , part-funded by Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise , it is arguably the first held by the IoD , that predominantly male organisation , where the overwhelming majority was female . |
| 2 | Stance for the lunge punch : this stance is usually the first taught to the new student . |
| 3 | If you stand on a hill in winter when there is a thaw or look down from a motorway , especially in the Midlands , you can hardly miss the pattern of long parallel bands of snow , which are always the last to go from the hollows of the old ridge and furrow . |
| 4 | However , Foley 's mill was probably the first erected in the midlands , and may have been of a new design . |
| 5 | It is salutary to recall that , as Europe 's main offshore islands , the British Isles were historically often the last to benefit from the diffusion of innovative ideas in Europe . |