Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 2 | The election was held on Thursday 6 December , and the result known the next day . |
| 3 | On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The completion of the draft marked the first substantive development on the issue , under negotiation by the 39 participating countries since 1968 . |
| 7 | Demands for repayment were not met and the bank appointed the second and third defendants as receivers . |
| 8 | There is a summary , your proof , your appendices , there 's a letter dated the fourth of February from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust , there is a special statement , and last , and only just received in the last few minutes , there is a supplementary note by Doctor on the Greater Crested Newt and its importance in relation to Skelton Pond . |
| 9 | He 's been getting acting lessons and , on the phone from Tel Aviv , where he 's shooting a film called The Eleventh Station , he agrees that simple muscled heave is beginning to look a little dated . |