Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technique , however , is not new and Keating 's Into Unknown England , 1866–1913 contains several fascinating accounts of similar participant studies by social observers of the nineteenth century in workhouses and cheap lodging houses . |
| 2 | One of the major preoccupations of Soviet Russian ethnic historians , obliged to work within the framework of Marxist-Leninist dogma , is to define the level of social-political evolution which the peoples of Siberia had reached by the sixteenth century in terms of Marx 's five universal stages . |
| 3 | But the judge usually takes the second course in cases concerning industrial relations . |
| 4 | The second peak in employees in employment in Figure 2.1(a) includes far more part-time workers than the peak in 1966 ( see Chapter 5 ) : so is the figure comparing like with like ? |
| 5 | Applying Kirchhoff 's current law to the unloaded network , the phasor node-pair potentials , and are found to be related by Substituting for in the second equation in terms of and from the first yields from which the transfer function is Consequently the ratio of potential-difference amplitude between output and input is When k = 1 this is the same transmission as provided by the Wien network of figure 8.8(a) . |
| 6 | When he gets to Iona , Johnson will walk for the second time in footsteps he does not yet know about , those of the man who caused the folklore — Columba was here . |
| 7 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 8 | Would it not be far better for the Government to end these punitive and ridiculous double tax payments — the Post Office already pays corporation tax — thus allowing it to concentrate on improving the quality of service to customers rather than pursuing abolition of the second delivery in towns and putting restrictions on rural services such as insisting that people have letter boxes at the bottom of their gardens or , in some cases , making people go to village centres for their letters ? |
| 9 | As you play the 9th chords in bars 6 and 7 you might wish to finger the full voicing for each chord and only lightly strike the top three strings as indicated in the music . |
| 10 | Reformat the name and address in the fourth paragraph in italics |
| 11 | An example might be the provisions which state that the child 's welfare is to be the first consideration in decisions relating to adoption and children in care ( Sections 3 and 59 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Grossbergers Hagglers , the First Name in Jeans , ’ ’ he read . |
| 13 | Workers deserted the first union in droves . |
| 14 | The need to deal effectively in the first instance in communications with Council Tax payers , both face to face and in writing , and hence the seniority of staff required for this purpose . |
| 15 | Can you erm , quantify what costs were taken above the line in the first half in terms of redundancy costs , restructuring costs , in the presentation to some restructuring again in the fine china division and how that compared to last year ? |
| 16 | For example , the first rise in expectations of the lower orders would be for more and better food before manufactured goods . |
| 17 | A decade later a greater radical , Jeremy Bentham , suggested that the armed forces of all the European States should be reduced to low fixed levels , that all colonies should be freed ( one of the first recognitions in schemes of this kind of the importance which overseas possessions were now assuming in European politics ) and that a ‘ common court of judicature ’ should be set up to settle international disputes . |
| 18 | Republican Local soviets Supreme Soviet Armenia ( to be decided ) due on May 20 Azerbaijan ( to be decided ) ( to be decided ) Byelorussia March 4 March 4 Estonia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Georgia due on June 17 ( to be decided ) Kazakhstan Dec. 24 , 1989 March 25 Kirghizia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Latvia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Lithuania ( to be decided ) Feb. 24 Moldavia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Russian Federation March 4 March 4 Tadjikistan Dec. 24 , 1989 Feb. 25 Turkmenia Jan. 7 Jan. 7 Ukraine March 4 March 4 Uzbekistan Feb. 18 Feb. 18 *Second round run-off elections were held generally two weeks after the first round in constituencies where contests between more than two candidates had failed to produce a winner with over 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 19 | She smiled for the first time in hours . |
| 20 | What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness . |
| 21 | In addition , for the first time in generations , as Table 4.2 indicates , there was an actual net inflow of population to Britain during the 1930s , a factor which would , of course , have increased Britain 's population growth rate . |
| 22 | For the first time in decades , the nation has a chance to decide what to do with it . |
| 23 | The point is , that for the first time in decades , the environmentalists have a powerful voice — and a Government which claims to listen . |
| 24 | FOR the first time in decades a litter of two ocelot kittens has been born at London Zoo . |
| 25 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 26 | Somewhere in this range , too , are those coincidences that give us an eerie spine-tingling feeling , like dreaming of a particular person for the first time in decades , then waking up to find that they died in the night . |
| 27 | But for the first time in decades the opposition parties are trying at least to look like a credible alternative government . |
| 28 | As pesticide concentrations in the environment fall , birds of prey are returning to areas of eastern England for the first time in decades . |
| 29 | In eastern Germany a female wolf has given birth to a cub for the first time in decades . |
| 30 | When everything had seemed to be sorting itself out , when the way ahead seemed , for the first time in ages , to be solid under her feet , Marie felt the path crumbling away in front of her . |