Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 18 January 1940 , the 1st Bucks landed at Le-Havre . |
| 2 | The second BTTF arrived in October 1990 and , like its predecessor , failed to create a stir . |
| 3 | It had happened repeatedly , from the short-lived first National Guidance Committee of 1967 to the second NGC established in response to Camp David and suppressed by Ariel Sharon in early 1982 . |
| 4 | The second Duma consisted of the same as before plus a few Social Democrats . |
| 5 | A single launch-control centre can feed information to all 16 missiles simultaneously , via the fibre-optic cables , with the second LCC held in reserve . |
| 6 | The 1975 Lyceum concerts were not the first Walters shows in London , but the impact with which they hit still has implications for reggae today . |
| 7 | The first Temple dates from the reign of King Solomon , c.970–930 BC , and was built in Jerusalem . |
| 8 | And so in 1967 the first Hercules arrived at its new home . |
| 9 | Initially supported in its early stages by a grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust ( the first Getty grant to be awarded to an art journal ) , Print Quarterly has relied on generous benefactors and advertising revenue since that date . |
| 10 | When the First Duma met in April 1906 it was dominated by Kadets , led by P. N. Miliukov , and peasant deputies loosely bound together in the Trudovik ( Labour ) Group . |
| 11 | The classic example of his footwork was the first Wigan try in the 1985 final . |
| 12 | None of the children were told about the wedding in advance and the first Charles knew of his new stepmother was when the headmaster of his prep school informed him |
| 13 | This flight became another ‘ first ’ for Sugar , as it was the first Lancaster to land on an ‘ enemy ’ airfield ! |
| 14 | The first Brayne to live in a house by the village street in Myddle was William Brayne , a husbandman who appears in the 1544 subsidy roll . |
| 15 | The first Ramsey knew about these discussions between Fisher and the prime minister was when a letter arrived in Durham on 8 December 1955 . |
| 16 | The first Leopold heard of it was when his son coolly informed him that he was accompanying Aloysia and her father for a few days to visit the Princess of Orange at Kircheim-Bolanden , where Aloysia was to sing several arias that Wolfgang had written for her . |
| 17 | The coupling medium in the first SAMs built at Stanford was water . |
| 18 | The first Creggan knew of the falling branch was the crack it made , loud and violent and cutting right into his chilly reverie as he huddled in his shelter preparing for the night . |
| 19 | The first Rolls-Royce went on sale in Hungary recently , joining the many Mercedes and BMW cars that have recently flooded the country , particularly in 1989 . |
| 20 | The third Duma consisted of people that had been arranged by the Tsar . |
| 21 | For those ‘ Old Fighters ’ who had been enthusiastic Hitler supporters even before the demise of the Weimar Republic , for the direct beneficiaries of Nazism — the careerists , power-seekers , and apparatchiks who had the Third Reich to thank for their offices and careers in Party and State , and for the ideologically committed who had ‘ burnt their boats ’ with the Nazi regime , the belief in the Führer 's powers to bring about a miracle and achieve final victory in the face of all the odds was the blind faith rooted in self-interest and fear of the future . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The moral condemnation of the Third Reich emerged for the most part only after the end of the war when the most barbaric crimes of the regime were fully exposed . |
| 24 | And for the mass of the petty bourgeoisie , which had from the beginning provided a backbone of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the period when , materially , the Third Reich turned to unmitigated disaster only seems to have set in from 1942 onwards . |
| 25 | Hispano Suiza took over the factory and continued producing cars until the last Bugatti appeared on a race track in 1956 . |
| 26 | On a curving ridge-walk like this , the last Munro staying within sight all the way can either be immensely heartening or terrifically dispiriting , depending on your state of exhaustion . |
| 27 | The last Menzies saw of him was his head turning , his mouth uttering inaudible words , as a heavy door ground backwards and then slammed shut . |
| 28 | The last Penny saw of him was his small form flying jerkily over the meadows towards a distant wood . |
| 29 | Despite the outcry from MG enthusiasts all over the world , the last MGB came off the production line in October 1981 . |
| 30 | The last Jess saw of him was his gaunt back with the coat skirts swinging as he disappeared down towards the quay . |