Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second division in this day and age , I had to climb a wooden ladder , I had to go all the way to the very top of the main stand and there was a shed , and at the end of the match , surface water forced me to dry my socks off in the radiator in the dressing rooms afterwards . |
| 2 | Indeed , it will soon be necessary to increase capacity by introducing a new numbering system : on Easter Sunday 1995 nearly every number in the UK will change — a ‘ 1 ’ will be inserted as the second digit in any number that starts with ‘ 0 ’ . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 4 | The second definition in each case emphasises the training and professional nature of counselling . |
| 5 | The case has a somewhat unusual history , for this is the second hearing in this court concerning this case . |
| 6 | In 1981 , however , this fundamental right was challenged for the second time in another case to make legal history . |
| 7 | In the second chapter in this section the focus is on changes at these levels . |
| 8 | Now and that 's for my benefit alone okay , what that means is that I 'll see each and every one of you in a , a role play so the first person in each role play will be Robert , Barry and Gareth , followed by Gill , , followed by Bill , Roger and Vincent and Robert again you do not deviate from that order . |
| 9 | The first person in each team places it on their nose and then passes it to other members of the team without using their hands . |
| 10 | The first person in each team is given a balloon and has to blow it down the room over tape placed at the other end without touching it . |
| 11 | To which the best answer is : a lot better than the first person in any queue organised by Mr Kaufman . |
| 12 | William Murdock was the first person in this country to build a moving steam engine . |
| 13 | Patient 301 was the first person in this family to be referred for genetic counselling . |
| 14 | When I met Francis on the first occasion in that throne room , life had not turned sour for him . |
| 15 | Which ground staged the first Test in this country ? ( 6 ) 3 . |
| 16 | This shows you that the colour you have now selected and are going to work on , is the first colour in this palette . |
| 17 | The first development in this field was the invention of Coberine by Unilever , working with a leading English chocolate company , which was patented in 1961 . |
| 18 | St. Saviour 's was the first church in this country to be specially dedicated to use by deaf people and was the crowning achievement of the Rev. Samuel Smith , the first clergyman ordained to minister entirely to the deaf . |
| 19 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 20 | The first election in that sense was held on May 30 , 1929 ( when Labour won 287 seats , Conservatives 261 , Liberals 59 , others 8 ) . |
| 21 | ART SHELL 'S appointment as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Raiders makes him the the first black in that position in modern NFL history , but the club 's owner , Al Davis , immediately played down the importance of the move . |
| 22 | The first sentence in that passage is , of course , a gross exaggeration . |
| 23 | The first sentence in this paragraph , for example , indicates that the discussion is to be about the change from one paragraph to another . |
| 24 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 25 | This is the first exercise in this book and in certain ways the most important . |
| 26 | IN THE Autumn of 1992 , Connecticut-based Turbine Engine Services [ TES ] brought a continuous electricity supply to an isolated town in Eastern Malaysia — the first location in that part of the country not to endure three to four hours a day of blackouts on a regular basis . |
| 27 | I 'm also baffled about the first half in more respect than one . |
| 28 | Labour , on return to power , decided to press on with the development of a new family allowance scheme , called ‘ child benefit ’ , designed to replace the older allowance , extended it to the first child in each family , and offset it against the abolition of tax allowances . |
| 29 | " To our knowledge , " the ornithologists say , " this is the first case in any vertebrate in which a drastic and recent change of behaviour has been documented and its genetic basis established . " |
| 30 | Catholicism is presented as a potential remedy , but the philosophy of indeterminacy appears for the first time in this novel as a rival discourse . |