Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles .
2 Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness .
3 Super Sally joined an exclusive club by becoming only the fifth British girl athlete to strike gold and only the second ever on the track , following Ann Packer in Tokyo 28 years ago .
4 Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece .
5 The Hong Kong authorities had carried out the first involuntary repatriation operation on Dec. 12 , 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] .
6 Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier .
7 He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand .
8 Which brings us to the blockbusting Italy issue arranged by Morgan Stanley , the US investment bank which put together the first US-style issue in Europe with an offering for New Zealand in August .
9 We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales .
10 Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century .
11 THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops .
12 FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money .
13 BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday .
14 It caused probably the first mythical switchboard ( since phones were only just installed ) , the cancelling of the Thursday night repeat was discussed in Parliament , Prince Philip loved it , Peter Cushing ( as Winston ) became a star , and the genuine sewer rats used for ‘ that ’ sequence all passed out under the studio lights .
15 This project will carry out the first longitudinal study of the relationships between health and health related behaviour ; education and training ; and employment in men .
16 In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn .
17 In a new departure , EPLF gunboats attacked and set fire to a Polish freighter off the Eritrean Red Sea coast on Jan. 3 ; they seized the 30-strong crew and fired rockets to drive off a second Polish freighter which attempted to come to their aid .
18 Brett of the extra-long floppy limbs churns out a second easy classic .
19 Roy Keane , Niall Quinn , Ray Houghton , Steve Staunton and Kevin Moran will all incur a one-match ban if they pick up a second yellow card tomorrow .
20 I board the plane feeling no pain , eat the evening meal and continue with the G&T theme , land in Gatwick and make the connection via the smoking area of the bar and another gulped Gordon 's , then pass on the second offered dinner but not the accompanying booze and quietly pass out somewhere over the West Midlands , to be woken by a dishy blonde with an impudent , dimpled smile and we 're here we 've landed we 've arrived , we 're on the stand at the airport and I 'd ask her what she 's doing later because I 'm drunk enough to not care when she says ‘ No ’ as she probably will , but I know I 'm too tired and besides my left eyelid 's stuck again and I suspect it makes me look a bit like Quasimodo , so I do n't say anything except , ‘ Uh , thanks , ’ which is cool or sad , I 'm not sure which .
21 They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium .
22 ‘ You never know when the next big story will break . ’
23 Augustus laid out the first Imperial residence in this part of Rome , followed by Tiberius , Caligula and Domitian ; Septimius Severus built here on a very large scale .
24 This document purports to carry out the last mortal wish of the testator , except that he will probably go to eternity without being entirely sure that the document he signed actually said what he wanted , because he was quite unable to read it .
25 I go to the back of the file and sort out the next complete document .
26 In order to succeed in their desire to pass on their property to their children , men first introduced the rule of monogamy and thus brought about the first great change .
27 The by-election swing from Conservative to Labour of 21 per cent was the largest such since 1935 , and the result represented only the 13th Labour by-election gain from the Conservatives since 1945 ( the most recent being the Vale of Glamorgan in May 1989 — see p. 36740 ) .
28 Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government .
29 Gerry Fitt with the full support of his party brought down the last Labour government over a decision which greatly enhanced the SDLP 's standing .
30 It was the final straw ; she could see he knew everything , everything , and that took away every last hidden ace she had ever hoped to possess .
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