Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 3 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 4 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 5 | Until finally , after ten minutes of desperate plodding , the welcome sight of a cream stone building arose around the next bend , nestled among a clump of very wet , but suddenly beautiful , rich green trees . |
| 6 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 7 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 8 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 9 | So blackly venomous was his expression that Perdita fled towards the next pitch , scattering the polo balls which lay like a hatch of goose eggs near the goal posts . |
| 10 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 11 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 12 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 13 | When the new class of bourgeois manufacturers and traders arose in the nineteenth century , it was able to merge with the commercialised aristocracy through marriage , and through the newly reformed public schools and universities . |
| 14 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 15 | Scepticism arose with the first television interviews . |
| 16 | Two years of basic research led to a first description of Mamprusi court ritual and the system of succession . |
| 17 | Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk . |
| 18 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 19 | The maximal effect during the four hour experiment occurred in the fourth hour after administration of cholera toxin ( Tables I-V ) . |
| 20 | The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 21 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 22 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 23 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 24 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 25 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 26 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 27 | Paul Weston scored in the first half for Stockton , but it was not until the last five minutes that Paul Bromley crossed for their second try . |
| 28 | The car wallowed around the last bend in the descent and cruised across in front of the school gates leaving two trails of dust behind . |
| 29 | A hole in the wall , through which light shone from the next room . |
| 30 | His condition deteriorated over the next week until he required ventilation . |