Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cemetery has been in existence since 1965 and is lovingly tended by regular visitors who often bring fresh flowers to mark the last resting place of a faithful friend . |
| 2 | Poor shacks housing local families are interspersed with grand villas and there are lots of half built homes scattered around owned by Anguillans who live abroad and return to the island when they have earned enough money to add the next storey . |
| 3 | Gavin , from Fareham , Hants , an archivist in the historic ship HMS Warrior , based at Portsmouth , scored 32 points to win the 21st competition . |
| 4 | The team of people from different countries which produces the New Internationalist meets each October to plan the next year 's magazines . |
| 5 | A Mr Portier was offered five guineas to translate the first part of the Professor 's lectures on ‘ The Bones ’ . |
| 6 | I could do with the company and Mrs Manners has still got enough turkey to feed the third world and the poor Albanians . |
| 7 | She had invited several friends to lunch the next day , and she had given no thought to what to cook . |
| 8 | Instead of having 26 pointers to indicate the next letters in words , the new method uses a 32-bit integer , 26 bits of which are set ( i.e. = 1 ) if that letter is allowable , and not ( i.e. = 0 ) if that letter is not allowable . |
| 9 | Malta 's government decided last year to commemorate the 50th anniversary by issuing medals to all servicemen who served there . |
| 10 | Again , we choose the matrix A of Equation ( 2.2.1.4 ) : ( i ) The leading minor of order 1 , b1 , is the element 6 : reciprocal 1/6. ( ii ) Using ( i ) , we apply the formulae ( 3 ) , ( 4 ) to find the reciprocal of the leading minor of order 2 , viz : unc Here unc and we deduce unc ( iii ) We now use this result to examine the third order minor unc Then unc similarly , unc Also unc Note that , in Equations ( 4 ) which we now evaluate , unc is a matrix of rank 1 . |
| 11 | To the passengers in the skies over the Atlantic drinking free champagne to celebrate the first anniversary of Virgin Atlantic , oblivious to all the dramas which had unfolded to keep them airborne , it probably would have seemed a bargain . |
| 12 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
| 13 | Michael Grade chose close-of-poll hour to unleash the first TV showing of Scandal ( C4 ) , which showed the Conservative party in a pretty bad light ( admittedly , a 30-year-old bad light ) . |
| 14 | The exodus of East Germans continued : 18,000 streamed into West Germany before their country took belated action to plug the last hole in its borders by requiring visas for all future trips to Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | The November 1972 decision by the French government to invite its European partners to develop a launcher , the L-35 , took seven years to produce the first successful Ariane launch , on 24 December 1979 . |
| 16 | There are a lot of producers who tell me it 's extremely difficult to get British writers to do a third draft . |
| 17 | Now Muindi ( 21 ) has joined the exclusive African set , and he will start hot favourite to pocket the first prize of £500 . |
| 18 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 19 | ‘ The album is just like one leaf on the tree , and that 's why I waited two years to do the next one , because I wanted to be sure that my playing had something new to offer . |
| 20 | Ann , made of sterner stuff than I , refused all invitations to have the first cast and eventually , crouching below the skyline , I reached the appointed place . |
| 21 | You only have to have w you only have one opportunity to make a first impression er make a first impression . |