Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Any other rule used during search is rewarded by the amount of weight which the next rule loses .
2 Today the sounds from the packed car park and souvenir shop must surely drown the water-music of Rorie More 's Cascade , the waterfall which the thirteenth Macleod chieftain liked to hear roaring beneath his window before he slept .
3 Again , while these books are in the ‘ horror ’ genre which the twentieth century has made its own , they are not written without an eye to their context in literary history beyond their descent from Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and the Gothic novel .
4 If the bees found the food by smell they would go to the nearest dish ; but , in fact they went to the original dish which the first bee had been to .
5 The defendant had argued that this information , ie the knowledge that the combination of the two ingredients produced an effective drier could not be protected by an injunction since the knowledge of that combination was knowledge which the second defendant must inevitably have taken away from the plaintiffs when he left their employment and that he could not proceed to expunge that knowledge from his mind .
6 For most of the remainder , Hitler stood for at least some things they admired , and for many had become the symbol and embodiment of the national revival which the Third Reich had in many respects been perceived to accomplish .
7 The dog which the eleventh legion would have taken with them would need some herding instinct , be fleet of foot and be powerful enough to guard the herd against wolf or bear .
8 this week its the third round of the coca cola cup … our only survivors are Swindon … they 've got Oldham from the Premier League at the County Ground tomorrow night … kick-off is at seven forty five …
9 Tell the interviewee what the next stage in the process will be and when .
10 It will be noted that failure to comply with a direction regarding structural alterations to a seamen 's canteen may result in a refusal to renew the licence It the next application , and not to a fine as under s.36 .
11 Now does anyone have want to have a guess what the next number might mean ?
12 Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors .
13 They had been preparing for a raid themselves the next day ; a big raid ; five galleys of men , gathered in Arivegaig ready to board the ships in the dawn .
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