Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Macready raised his stick , cruel mouth curving like a second scar , and a foot-long blade sprang out . |
| 4 | Three hundred and twenty-five works of art reported missing from Paris 's Musée Jacquemart-André in an inventory published in April 1991 by the Cour des Comptes the lofty body responsible for controlling public finance have not only been found , but never left the museum according to a second survey carried out by order of a Paris court . |
| 5 | In this a weak input which can not sustain LTF in its own right may be encouraged to do so if combined with a strong stimulus arriving from a second pathway . |
| 6 | In the first round of voting 19 of the 28 seats were decided , with the remainder going to a second round ; 82 per cent of the 8,592-strong electorate went to the polls ( most of Andorra 's population of 60,000 being foreigners and not entitled to vote ) . |
| 7 | Many bright ideas — and failed ideas looking for a second lease on life — are being put forward as ways of converting weapon-grade plutonium into a form too awkward for the weapon-minded to bother with . |
| 8 | Top hair dressers flew in Paris salons of Carita and Alexandre ; Elizabeth Arden created a new make-up named Farah , to be given in kits to the guests ; Baccarat designed the crystal goblets ; Ceralene fashioned the place setting after a fifth century BC Persian ceramic ; Robert Hailland produced a cup-and-saucer service to be used just once by arriving guests ; and Porthault , one of the great French linen makers , made the private and state linens . |
| 9 | ( b ) List 5 important items of information which should appear in a letter of application written by a person applying for a first job . |
| 10 | At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes . |
| 11 | Today there are six teams playing in a fourth division and a viable programme underway with at least 500 Chinese players involved . |
| 12 | So paragraphing may present some bilingual writers working in a second language with greater difficulties than writers whose experience is confined to the language and culture in which they are writing . |
| 13 | This was Mayall 's first Hollywood film and he should n't hold his breath waiting for a second chance . |
| 14 | All of these students were full time or sandwich undergraduates aiming for a first degree and enrolled on a course of three or more years duration . |
| 15 | There were faces at the barrier , people craning for a last look . |
| 16 | For the first time , preparatory Tutorial Classes became eligible for grant-aid and the Advanced Tutorial Class extending into a fourth year was formally recognised for financial support . |