Example sentences of "[noun] be [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of my companions on this field trip to the mines are from the Third World . |
| 2 | Accounts survive from over 50 collieries within this period , the earliest series dates from the mid-fifteenth century but the great majority are from the seventeenth century . |
| 3 | Very few pupils left before completing a full five-year course , and 40 per cent of the total pupil population of all the schools were in the sixth form . |
| 4 | Around one quartr of the children in this study were below the third percentile for weight suggesting an association between cryptosporidiosis and failure to thrive , as described in other centres . |
| 5 | The entry is from the first floor . |
| 6 | All of them had safely negotiated Becher 's for the second time . |
| 7 | 1980 ) and onset is during the second half of the first year of life . |
| 8 | O'Leary is in the second year of a leisure management course at West London Institute where he says he is adjusting to minor celebrity status . |
| 9 | The practice is for the second copy of the Request to be retained in the files of the Central Authority as a record of its action in the matter , and for the second copy of the document itself to be returned with the completed Certificate of service so as to eliminate any doubt as to which document is covered by the Certificate . |
| 10 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 11 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 12 | While none of these pictures is of the first rank , some are of interest : Paris Bordone 's ‘ A Courtesan ’ ; Pietro Marescalchi 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned , with Saints James the Greater and Prosdocimus ’ of 1564 and Michele Giambono 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned ’ . |
| 13 | Inside , the roof is of the nineteenth century but the fresco painting on the walls is one of the oldest decorative schemes in Germany , dating from c. 1000 . |
| 14 | But the font is of the twelfth century , so there was a church here then ; and deep in the churchyard to the east of the chancel is a buried wall which is perhaps the east wall of a Saxon church . |
| 15 | Royal attempts , such as Ine 's in the seventh century or Edgar 's in the tenth , to promulgate codes could only meet with success where local practices were not too obviously threatened . |
| 16 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 17 | The aircraft was on the second leg of a trans-Atlantic flight from Europe to Canada via Iceland , with two pilots and five passengers on board . |
| 18 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 19 | In 1979 , National Savings was on the 18th issue of fixed interest certificates . |
| 20 | Leeming was on the second floor , a police officer on guard outside his room . |
| 21 | The entrance was on the second deck , a large double door now wide open that Delaney remembered from before , thinking at the time that it led to a storage area . |
| 22 | Mugs are in the next cupboard along to your right . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The first away game I went to was Northampton in the mid-Sixties when Burnley were in the First Division . |
| 24 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 25 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 26 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , actually , Ace is from nineteen eighty-six , Benny is from the twenty-fifth century , and I 'm not from this planet at all . |
| 28 | erm The second leg of the Radio Oxford yankee is in the sixth race , this is the second quarter final of the Pall Mall , and here I 'm going to go erm for Social Circle in trap one erm trained by Linda Mullins at Walthamstow , a perfect trap draw for this erm Edinburgh Cup winner , he 's won erm fifteen thousand in prize money . |
| 29 | Hunter can not play for the Saints but Bayfield is in the second row . |
| 30 | If your elderly parent is in the second category , this event always provides a valuable opportunity for the family to make every kind of affectionate and celebratory gesture that says , ‘ We 're glad you 're still around ’ . |