Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day , after the thirty-third night spent on the exitless side of a bed that was shoved up against a wall and that also housed a physiotherapist called Daphne , an air hostess called Olga , and Olga 's dopey Teddy bear , I got out of the bottom of the bed unheard and thought , No . |
| 2 | As evidence for this assertion she will point to the fact that the rise of the novel ( the literary genre of ‘ character ’ par excellence ) in the eighteenth century coincided with the rise of capitalism ; that the triumph of the novel over all other literary genres in the nineteenth century coincided with the triumph of capitalism ; and that the modernist and postmodernist deconstruction of the classic novel in the twentieth century has coincided with the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
| 3 | The big city stations of the nineteenth century reflected to the full the Victorians ' unashamed belief in monumentality . |
| 4 | Karlovy Vary was named after Charles IV , Ven told her , who in the fourteenth century came across the scalding waters of the springs through one of his hunting dogs . |
| 5 | In respect of the extent of enumeration and location of some topics , the sixteenth edition reverted to the fourteenth . |
| 6 | This is the second survey commissioned by The Economist to discover which are Britain 's most admired companies ; the first was published in September 1989 . |
| 7 | The second unit encroaches on the southeast corner of the first and consists of a slightly raised rectilinear platform with rounded corners , aligned on the east-west road but at a different angle to the first unit . |
| 8 | If the patient is being moved between two chairs , the second carer stands between the chairs , again behind the patient . |
| 9 | The second concern relates to the impact of a government controlled curriculum on social pluralism . |
| 10 | The second criticism relates to the role of the institutions in encouraging an explosion of consumer credit during the late 1980s . |
| 11 | The second half continued in the same exciting pattern as the first , but for all Witney 's pressure , it was Yate who took the lead . |
| 12 | All this has resulted in our profit for the Division being significantly higher in the second half compared with the first half of the year . |
| 13 | The second half began in the manner of the first with Tranmere in control . |
| 14 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 15 | The second turning starts at the outside edge turning the whole field including the double row towards the hedgerow . |
| 16 | The second qualification relates to the boundaries of the areas studied . |
| 17 | In the second bay starting from the western end , northern side and up to the gangway , was H. Webb 's black gang , so called because everything they dealt with was black in colour . |
| 18 | The second lieutenant disappeared inside the main building intending to call on the Commander-in-Chief — without an appointment needless to say — but realized that he was in difficulties . |
| 19 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 20 | The Ladder is divided into two parts : the first deals with the preparation that is necessary before the novice is ready for advanced contemplation and the second part deals with the mystical experience . |
| 21 | The second part starts at the beginning of Term 5 , before the first teaching practice ; it continues for four further weeks at the beginning of term 6 in the same teaching practice school . |
| 22 | Ippon ken ( one knuckle fist ) : the second knuckle protrudes from the fist and is used to strike soft tissue , such as the throat . |
| 23 | But the second order depends on the content of meaning for its existence to be recognized . |
| 24 | The second order relates to the banning of meetings in the vicinity of the factory gates . |
| 25 | For well over a century the design has been available whilst in 1909 the Science Museum , for example , acquired the example to be seen in the Computing Then and Now gallery , purchasing the cheaper of the two production models made by Messrs Newton and Co. and fully described in the firm 's literature Stratton 's brainchild differs from the Newton model only in having the second pendulum attached to the pen instead of hanging below the main pendulum under the table . |
| 26 | The second difficulty relates to the potential for deliberate manipulation of the accounts to produce preferred results . |
| 27 | The second difficulty arises from the fact that this defence of individualism rests on an idea of a ‘ general framework of human life ’ which is itself open to doubt , and would be challenged by a number of holists . |
| 28 | The key of the second level consists of the key of the first level ( job-number ) plus the identifier of the second ( part number ) . |
| 29 | In answer to the second question posed by the Attorney-General , no stay should be imposed unless the defendant shows on the balance of probabilities that owing to the delay he will suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial can be held : in other words , that the continuance of the prosecution amounts to a misuse of the process of the court . |
| 30 | ‘ In answer to the second question posed by the Attorney-General , no stay should be imposed unless the defendant shows on the balance of probabilities that owing to the delay he will suffer prejudice to the extent that no fair trial can be held : in other words , that the continuance of the prosecution amounts to a misuse of the process of the court . |