Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Van Morrison , arguably the second most difficult white performer in rock history , wandered on in a suit to start improvising round a punchy version of the old Weavers hit , Good Night Irene . |
| 2 | THE IRB admitted five new members : Andorra ( a country playing in the FIRA second division ) , Chile ( arguably the second strongest nation in South America ) , Luxembourg , Hungary , and Latvia ( the first nation of the crumbling Soviet empire to join the Board ) . |
| 3 | Professor N. Ambraseys was arguably the first to recognise the full implications of the study of the history of earthquakes to the science of tectonics . |
| 4 | We would do well to look at the life of the one who is arguably the first church planter ; the apostle Peter . |
| 5 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 6 | With a full house of 185 at last Tuesday 's event in Edinburgh University , part-funded by Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise , it is arguably the first held by the IoD , that predominantly male organisation , where the overwhelming majority was female . |
| 7 | Since you can pick up a no-frills steam iron for £40 or £50 I assumed it would take all the angst out of what is arguably the last of the genuinely ghastly domestic chores . |
| 8 | To design any piece of audio equipment successfully the first stage is to define exactly what it is that you require and determine the circuit from this information . |
| 9 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 10 | He was rarely the first to suggest what should be done ; when the others spoke he listened with half an ear , made up his mind what course to follow and followed it without hesitation as though no other were possible . |
| 11 | THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August . |
| 12 | Rarely the third ; when gin might seem a cheaper and faster way of easing pain than any other . |
| 13 | MAIDSTONE U12 's visited twin town , in France , fro the 16th International Marcel Communeau Youth Rugby Tournament along with more than 60 clubs from France , Belgium , Holland and Germany . |
| 14 | Sit with your feet and legs apart — do not over-extend the distance — it defeats the purpose of the exercise and you will find you wo n't be able to walk properly the next day ! |
| 15 | Churchill had at moments in the First World War manifested great strategic prescience ; his intuition swung into action even more powerfully the second time round . |
| 16 | The All Blacks won a sterner Third Test against the World side , almost went base-over-apex in the First Test against Ireland , then came back so powerfully the Second Test was a 59–6 mis-match . |
| 17 | Founded in 1583 , the University has a distinguished tradition of learning and of innovation , including examples in the Arts ( Edinburgh established the first Chair of English Literature in Britain ) , in the Sciences ( with the UK 's first Chair of Agriculture and latterly the first Chair and Department of Artificial Intelligence ) and , of course , in Medicine and the other professions . |
| 18 | This is presumably the first in a series of large format paperbacks , with a fairly substantial text giving a concise summary of campaign history backed up by numerous black and white photographs from government sources ; and pages of coloured artwork mostly devoted to uniformed figures , with a few showing aircraft , armour and artillery . |
| 19 | There was ‘ a foreign substance which can be felt by touch under the skin of the neck ’ , which was presumably the first and fatal bullet fired by Abbas Mohamed . |
| 20 | They had two sons , baptized in Truro in 1808 and 1809 , both called William ( presumably the first died ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Presumably the next step would have been to send bailiffs in . ’ |
| 22 | But certainly at the moment , erm and at least until presumably the next general election , erm nobody can see much light at the end of that tunnel . |
| 23 | Getting the paper work right the first time saves the customer being bothered with further questions . |
| 24 | He had been right the first time . |
| 25 | you were right the first time . |
| 26 | Right facing this way Simon can you turn round as well please , Robert Right the first game very easy , I 'm going to point to somebody , we 're going to go through the alphabet , they 're going to give me the name of an animal . |
| 27 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
| 28 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 29 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
| 30 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |