Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
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 | 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 . |
4 | The Hong Kong authorities had carried out the first involuntary repatriation operation on Dec. 12 , 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] . |
5 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
8 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
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 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | PREMIER John Major flew home from his Spanish holiday yesterday — ready to kill off the last lingering hopes of early economic recovery . |
17 | Brett of the extra-long floppy limbs churns out a second easy classic . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | I go to the back of the file and sort out the next complete document . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
28 | The management problems encountered by someone taking up a first managerial appointment in a medium-sized branch . |
29 | He brought out the first published Ordnance Survey map , An Entirely New & Accurate Survey of the County of Kent ( 1801 ) . |
30 | The marauders had simply backed the wagon into a relatively open grove , and tipped the stack of wood headlong , raking out the last slim cordwood and dragging the cart away from under them . |