Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A river of molten rock overwhelmed the last of five big dykes , hurriedly built by villagers to protect their homes , and surrounded Signor Giuseppe Fichera 's farm cottage , only 150 yards from the nearest permanently inhabited house . |
| 2 | It 's not as if they get much study done the last week or so anyway . ’ |
| 3 | More significantly , the State Department evinced the first sign of active hostility to Cuba by pressurising the British government into rejecting a Cuban order for military helicopters . |
| 4 | The Bonior-Hoyer contest marked the fourth occasion in the last five years on which the Democrats had chosen a senior leader . |
| 5 | The election was held on Thursday 6 December , and the result known the next day . |
| 6 | The creditor who had been splashed by his debtor 's wheel could have his carriage seized the next day . |
| 7 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 8 | While sheet B was being printed off — from two formes , inner B and outer B — the compositor prepared the next two formes , inner and outer C , with another two sets of running titles ; then he got on with something else . |
| 9 | The Autumn issue marked the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain with articles on the Battle and those who fought in it . |
| 10 | Navratilova 's exit marked the first time no American woman had reached the quarter-finals of the US Open since women began playing in the tournament in 1887 . |
| 11 | In the event , the 1980 Broadcasting Act allocated the fourth channel to the IBA in preference to creating a new authority specifically to run this channel . |
| 12 | In 1946 the feast sing committee promoted the first Holmfirth musical competitions . |
| 13 | When the 1981 Companies Act implemented the Fourth EC Company Law Directive , it was not generally recognised how the nature of financial reporting would be affected . |
| 14 | Shellac records were simply too fragile to be posted ; so the special circumstances of war justified the first vinyl records . |
| 15 | A military accident stationed the first liberal parliament ( 1810 ) in Cadiz , the only town with a liberal society , a large French colony , a daily performance at the French theatre , a social life devoid of aristocratic prejudice , and where the test of status , even for nobles ( who invested in trade ) , was wealth . |
| 16 | March 7th was one of the most momentous days in British sport during the last 50 years and , when our English team achieved the first back-to-back Grand Slam in almost 70 years , we are snatched away to watch highlights of Scotland v France . |
| 17 | Only a day after reporting the second year of falling personal computer sales ( CI No 2,157 ) , the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association says that Japanese manufacturers ' shipments of personal computers jumped 6.2% in unit terms during the January to March quarter from a year earlier , and the rise in combined exports and domestic sales to 688,000 units from 648,000 units in the year-earlier quarter marked the first quarterly rise in two years ; exports rocketed 31% to 144,000 units but domestic shipments only inched up 1.1% to 544,000 units , but was still the first quarterly increase in two-and-a-half years ; because of the price wars , combined export and domestic shipments of made-in-Japan micros — when measured in currency terms , fell 8.3% — exports and home sales each off 8% . |
| 18 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 19 | The Appeal Court labelled the first trial a ‘ costly disaster ’ never to be repeated ; as a result , the SFO has abandoned the second one . |
| 20 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 21 | However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award . |
| 22 | The newspaper story marked the first occasion on which the media had given coverage to the longstanding allegation of Bush 's infidelity . |
| 23 | Ace called the second night after she got back . |
| 24 | All major opposition parties voted for the bills , whose adoption marked the first time since 1945 that an opposition bill had been passed in the Upper House . |
| 25 | Whether they go on late at night , or , hair cut the next morning , it 's not , it 's not to the wall , but er , this would appear to cut right across the board . |
| 26 | Finally we crossed a low pass and descended into the wide depression of the oasis where straggling clumps of trees and patchy cultivation marked the first springs . |
| 27 | It was therefore no surprise when the Macmillan government allocated the third TV channel to the BBC in 1963 , with a 1964 opening date . |
| 28 | Accordingly , their Lordships did not agree with counsel that if the jury convicted the first appellant upon the basis that he was guilty as actor , they necessarily should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 29 | The Phnom Penh government released the last of its political prisoners and prisoners of war on March 29 . |
| 30 | Our Invention consists of an improvement on the Invention relating to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways which forms the subject of a previous application for Letters Patent dated the 22nd April 1896 , No. 8501 . |