Example sentences of "that the [noun sg] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Dickinson explained that the committee last year placed four advertisements , two of which appeared in a 16-page December children 's book supplement in the Independent on Sunday . |
| 2 | What I think my colleague is saying is that when the actuary is assessing the commitments of the funds , he is looking at the anticipated increased earnings until the person retires and I think when the calculation is made for somebody who is er a deferred pensioner of leaving er a pension fund to take his money elsewhere a similar calculation or the same calculation should be used , the one that the actuary last used in , in looking forward and saying what the commitments are . |
| 3 | I think I can claim that the whole last part is bound to make an impact on our musical public ; at least , if I compare it with what has been said recently on the same problem by Hanslick and others … |
| 4 | Well , we can hope that the success last season in the FA Youth Cup means that we have an excellent crop of players coming through . |
| 5 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |
| 6 | A report by the London School of Economics suggested that the formation last year of Scottish Enterprise , a body linked to 13 local enterprise bodies with responsibility for investment and training , was likely to have a greater influence on the economy than the Training and Enterprise Councils . |
| 7 | Following the recent press statement by Mr Michael Forsyth MP , Scotland 's Sports Minister , I write to inform you that Mr Forsyth has accepted the Scottish Sports Council 's view that the system first introduced at its request in 1987 whereby senior staff of the Council serve also as Members of the Council , should be discontinued . |
| 8 | This approach ignores the fact that the taxpayer first had to acquire the right to grant sub-licenses . |
| 9 | The answer I think , lies in the fact that the government next year gave this authority an increase in its S S A of some thirty two point one percent , one of the largest increases in the country . |
| 10 | Add to that the overall third placing in Grade 1 , and young Pipe Major Mark Faloon and Drum Sergeant Gary Corkin , had plenty to celebrate . |
| 11 | It is possible that the abbacy of Ely was vacant from before Æthelred 's death until 1019 , and clear that the abbot next appointed ran into some kind of trouble . |
| 12 | Few would dispute that travel broadens the mind , but with basic school fees at the top independent boarding schools at around £10,000 a year and some of these trips costing as much as £2,000 , many hard-pressed parents admit they have come to dread the arrival of the letter informing them that the cricket 1st XI is to visit Zimbabwe . |
| 13 | In the year that the child first went to a nursery school his father anglicized the family name . |
| 14 | In relation to white British culture in particular , various factors combine to create a sense of unreliability in in-law support : the ambiguity about whether the in-laws are ‘ really ’ part of your kin group ; the possibility that the linking third party will be removed at some stage ; the expectation that in-law relationships are likely to be tricky at an interpersonal level . |
| 15 | Therefore it would seem on this approach that the court first has to decide whether the covenant is intrinsically just and reasonable before it applies the object and intent test . |
| 16 | The mediaeval Greek word for galley is katergon , and it was in this nautical sense that the word first entered the Russian vocabulary . |
| 17 | That , in fact , er there are three provinces who are already now contributing more than anyone else that , they feel that the churches should go forward to try and raise the minister 's to what was proposedly that the assembly last year , they should be paid thirteen thousand two hundred but in order to do that see another six hundred thousand pound raised and it is likely that this will be put as a challenge to the churches at assembly . |
| 18 | What happened was that the water first backed up behind the lipped edge of the top step , then over-flowed , and spilled with increasing force , in a sort of hydro-chain-reaction , down each subsequent step to the bottom of the channel . |
| 19 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 20 | It is widely felt that the death last year of Graham Greene left a gap at the top of the Eng Lit ladder . |
| 21 | Does he agree that the announcement last Thursday by the Secretary of State for Social Security is nothing short of a scandal ? |
| 22 | Some observers argue that the assassination last month of Mr Mitsotakis ' son-in-law , Paul Bakoyannis MP , and the dignity and courage shown by Mr Mitsotakis then , may tip the balance in New Democracy 's favour . |
| 23 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 24 | They believe that the student first needs to acquire a perception of the analogies involved in the patterns of the language , and to be drilled until a considerable body of material has been learned , since analysis of the language is considered by them to be an advanced study . |
| 25 | Strength , it turned out , is n't a prerequisite ( lucky thing , since tenor bells can weigh the same as a Mini ) ; in skilled hands the bell does most of the work , but a full ringing circle demands that the ringer first gets the bell moving and gradually increases the swing until the bell is balanced or ‘ set ’ with the mouth uppermost , ready to be rung on . |
| 26 | MASERU ( UPI ) — The chief magistrate in Lesotho ruled that the killing last December of a student by Lesotho 's ruler , Major General Metsing Lekhanya , was justifiable homicide . |
| 27 | At the end of 1992 it is probably a reasonable generalization that the average 30-second commercial , including the cost of bulk prints , but not of repeat fees ( see page 129 ) , would cost some £65000–£70000 to make . |
| 28 | This is a sort of default mechanism which tells the reader that the participant last mentioned or , alternatively , the one in focus or the one that can be inferred on grounds of logic or context , is the subject of the following clause(s) unless otherwise indicated ( see discussion of theme and Chinese-style topic in Chapter 5 , section 5.1.1.4 ) . |
| 29 | I note that the draft fourth edition of the guidance notes to the Construction and Survey Regulations contains provisions on this matter . ’ |
| 30 | It was in 1910 that the brigade first entered competition work , when they competed at Watford . |