Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Football Association are to request that players of all clubs competing in the third round of the FA Cup this weekend should wear black armbands in memory of former secretary Ted Croker , who died at the age of 68 on Christmas Day . |
| 2 | The projects deriving from the first phase of the research programme cover topics like small firms , unemployment , career education in , and further education beyond , school , the agricultural sector in the economy , housing and the labour market . |
| 3 | CD 's second novel , written for serialization in Richard Bentley 's monthly magazine , Bentley 's Miscellany , of which CD was the first editor , the first instalment appearing in the second issue of Feb. 1837 . |
| 4 | Note also an error in the text relating to the last set of transactions which should relate to l months 8 to 12 , not 6 to 12 as shown in the text . |
| 5 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 6 | In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities . |
| 7 | When the Eighth Army turned and stood for what was to be the first battle of Alamein , a tiny force consisting of the 11th Field Regiment and a part of the Essex Regiment was rushed to the Ruweisat Ridge with orders to plug the vital gap between the South African positions on the coast and the New Zealanders on the edge of the Quattara Depression . |
| 8 | Mansell was slow to start … and Williams team mate Ricardo Patrase got a flyer sneaking into the first bend ahead of the field . |
| 9 | They got it when Inzamam was short of speed returning for a second run , and Malcolm 's throw from third man was slickly relayed by Russell to the bowler 's end . |
| 10 | The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place . |
| 11 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 13 | His second example involved a transhipment bill of lading issued by the first carrier and damage or loss occurring on the second carrier 's vessel . |
| 14 | He paused , his blue eyes glinting with the first sign of malice he had shown . |
| 15 | RIGHT Part of an ivory plaque dating to the 8th–9th centuries BC found at Nimrud in Iraq . |
| 16 | It has records of the older companies and boards , plus plans and letter books dating from the eighteenth century and onwards . |
| 17 | Now twenty-four important windows dated 1655–57 from the parish church in De Rijp , an affluent village of whalers and ship builders near the north Holland coast dating from the seventeenth century , are suffering from the effects of humidity and air pollution . |
| 18 | Many authors writing in the third person use ‘ he ’ and ‘ his ’ , even when the references include or refer to women . |
| 19 | Arnside Tower , a prominent hillside landmark dating from the 14th Century |
| 20 | Around fifty works of art will include : four Eastern Zhou bronze vessels dating from the fifth century BC , cast in two different alloys of bronze and inlaid with a design incorporating small pieces of malachite , paste and copper wire ; a bronze male figure of the third to fourth century BC , supporting a candlestick ; of a similar date and from a royal treasury is a bronze and silver ox inlaid with a complex pattern of curved scrolls ; a gold and turquoise garment-hook in the form of three intertwined dragons ; a group of Tang figures including an ochre camel in unglazed earthenware ; and a twelfth-century carved wooden figure of a seated Bodhisattva , last shown in London at Eskenazi 's in 1972 and purchased back for this exhibition . |
| 21 | Two trips were organised due to three pregnancies coinciding with the first dates . |
| 22 | If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less . |
| 23 | Mosley 's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession . |
| 24 | Motor racing , however , extends beyond the world of high-powered McLarens ' , Williams ' and Ferraris ' : Britain 's Derek Bell and Belgium 's Jacky Ickx have shown a domination of sports car racing in the last decade that Fangio , Lauda , Prost and co. would have been proud of in Formula One . |
| 25 | The chances of these Communist tactics leading to the Third World War by 1953 were deemed too high for any complacency in Western capitals . |
| 26 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 27 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 28 | When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the first killings began , one might have expected these siren voices calling for a third way to fall silent . |
| 29 | Several organisations have been signed-up to the rebuild and the schedule has the aircraft flying on the 50th anniversary date . |
| 30 | The special is timed for an 8.00pm departure from Waterloo to comply with the ban on daylight running over the third rail and to ensure that there is no diesel pilot . |