Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [num ord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may find that the animals which first come to the microhabitat are eaten by animals which arrive later . |
| 2 | Michael Bridges , the scientific journalist who first revealed to the public at large that this project existed — and we all owe him a great debt … ’ |
| 3 | Despite the reservations of his trainer he next went for the Melbourne Cup : he started even-money favourite , but pulled his way to the front in a slowly run race against the wishes of his jockey and faded in the straight to finish third . |
| 4 | C&P 's sites have steadily reduced their liquid discharges thanks to a series of improvement programmes which first began in the 1970s . |
| 5 | The Jeep Wranglers receiving so much stick last week were the direct descendants of the vehicle which first surfaced in the Second World War when Ford mass produced the Jeep ( GP from General Purpose ) runabouts to take the invading allies to Berlin just as fast as the film crews could follow the generals . |
| 6 | From the moment I first thought of the play , I thought he 'd be ideal for the part . |
| 7 | In the first of a regular series , we bring together some of the practical designs and circuits which first appeared in the US magazine EDN . |
| 8 | He elaborated the point he first made in the February that Gothic architecture expressed a spirit ‘ opposed to liberty and the true interests and prosperity of a Protestant country ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't been in here since the day I first arrived at the house . |
| 10 | The puppets which first appeared in the sixties became cult viewing when the programmes were recently repeated . |
| 11 | Born and educated in South Africa he first came to the UK as private secretary to the ambassador . |
| 12 | Wynne-Jones I first met before the Second World War in the subterranean Balliol-Trinity physical laboratory at Oxford , where all the chemical kinetics were said to be catalysed by cigarette smoke . |
| 13 | Working class literature is that writing which first appears within the modern working class in the process of its formation and carries the marks of its origin in its attitude to society , particularly to workers ' problems , and in its manner of expression . |
| 14 | In this small group of tales he first described in the third person how a murder had happened and then in the voice of his " Watson " narrated the activities of his sleuth , Dr Thorndyke , the scientist , in bringing the murderer to book . |
| 15 | Wild boars are roaming woodland they last inhabited in the fifteenth century . |
| 16 | For male workers , however , employment was rapidly increasing in the areas of electrical appliances , transportation and furniture which first appear in the 1965 census as well as metal products and some of the areas traditionally open to women — chemicals , paper and rubber ( Chinchilla 1977 ) . |
| 17 | David Rennie earned Birmingham their fourth win on the trot with his first goal for the club . |
| 18 | Jews and Arabs lived together in the street , speaking each other 's language with some fluency , and it was an Israeli Jew who first pointed to the white house . |
| 19 | Fourth place went to Robert Holden from New Zealand who first appeared on the leaderboard on lap two , the consistent Duffus was fifth and Terry Rymer making his debut at the North West sixth . |
| 20 | The Benevolent Fund had existed for many years , but it was Harry Barber who first inaugurated in the Essex Section the Links scheme in which elderly and retired members keep in touch with each other for mutual support if required . |
| 21 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |
| 22 | Like many East Anglians who took to the sea he first served on the farm : |
| 23 | Employees who first went through the Heartwatch programme around two and a half years ago will soon be recalled for another assessment . |
| 24 | The horse is the rehabilitated The Committee who ran the proverbial ‘ blinder ’ in the Kim Muir and who is now quietly fancied to give Homer his first win in the National . |