Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] [unc] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 2 | Silicon Graphics Inc , Mountain View , California , will this week unveil the Iris Indigo DevStation , calling it the industry 's first desktop especially configured for software developers . |
| 3 | She has amassed a £94 million fortune through her family 's food , hotel and banking chain , making her the nation 's 13th richest woman . |
| 4 | At the end of 1983 West Germany had 16 nuclear power stations with a total capacity of 11,110 MW , making it the world 's fifth nuclear nation . |
| 5 | In 1990 the Netherlands exported nearly 35,000 million cubic metres of gas , making it the world 's second largest exporter of gas after the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | The '70s energy crisis gave us the world 's first solar-powered loudspeaker . |