Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William and Debbie Balthis , now both nine , and their six-year-old brother David were burned over a third of their bodies in the accident four years ago . |
| 2 | The two songs were played back the next day by the tired twosome . |
| 3 | Eleven laboratories in eight countries are carrying out the first stage , synthesising new compounds for tests . |
| 4 | Once your kit is sorted out the first hour is generally spent getting used to the skis , sidestepping up the slope and sliding straight down . |
| 5 | At last week 's Orbit trade show in Switzerland , Pinnacle was showing off the first in what will be a family of Mbus PDS-3 systems that 'll house Hypersparc and be followed by PDS-10 , Sparcstation 10-compatibles next year . |
| 6 | Iain 's body was found later the next day . |
| 7 | In the main part of the building the paintings are hung on the first and second floors . |
| 8 | Embedded in his initial instructions to Joshua concerning the actions the people are to take on the seventh day we find the clause , ‘ … when they make a long blast with the ram 's horn ’ . |
| 9 | The seas swamped their boats , and all three boatcrews perished in the waters , their lifeless bodies being washed ashore the next morning . |
| 10 | If you can get hold of a copy of the record , check out the last section of the song and see how the whole sequence is moved up a fourth , becoming A7 , D7 , G7 and C7 , into the fade of A7 and D7 . |
| 11 | It may also be noted that if this method is employed then the first number chosen should be by random means rather than just ‘ saying a number between 1 and 10 ’ since it is well known that choices between these limits do not come out anything like randomly — the number 7 being particularly popular . |
| 12 | The above shot was taken on the 18th while the aircraft flew for Dutch TV . |
| 13 | The surface of the jaw is indented about a third from the tip . |
| 14 | Often books will have a list of different places ; the convention is to choose only the first . |
| 15 | Samsung Software America is bringing out the first of its anticipated shrinkwrapped Unix office automation products : Replix , a full-featured networked client/server Fax management application targeted at mission-critical environments in medium to large organisations . |
| 16 | While the bigger names were following the European clay circuit , Korda was reaching only the second singles final of his career in Tampa . |
| 17 | Fires were burning over a third of the city . |