Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came at the end of a pretty miserable week for the Seasiders after their failure to reach the first round of the Cup Winners ' Cup in Cyprus . |
| 2 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 3 | Lord Lae declared that ‘ oppression does not stand on the doorstep with a toothbrush moustache and a swastika armband ’ ; and millionaire QCs , who think legal aid is something once organised by Bob Geldof , spoke movingly about their willingness to take the next indigent client who wandered into their chambers with a blank cheque . |
| 4 | This latter issue was also cited by the Japanese government as the reason for its decision to postpone the eighth round of normalization talks with North Korea , originally scheduled for July . |
| 5 | At Newmarket in 1751 Curzon and Lord March ( William Douglas , later the notorious fourth Duke of Queensberry , q.v. ) rode their horses , Silver Leg and Chance , against wagers of £50 and £100 of which Curzon won the second encounter . |
| 6 | A less glamorous version of its origin sees the first Manx cat as nothing more than a Manx sailor 's pet — a curiosity brought home after travels to the Orient . |
| 7 | The vigour and profundity of the Old Testament 's own challenge is at once realized when we recall how far the ruins of Jericho are from Eden , or from that remarkable declaration of faith in Genesis 1 , and how completely the smoke of its destruction hides the last of the promises given to Abraham in Genesis 12 . |
| 8 | Consequently , the last line of his life parroted the last line of his masterpiece : at his funeral a picket of soldiers turned up to fire a volley over the coffin , and thus bid the state 's traditional farewell to one of its most improbable and sardonic chevaliers . |
| 9 | In 386 , Priscillian and at least five of his disciples became the first heretics to be executed . |
| 10 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 11 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 12 | MacLane's– driver swerved out of his way to get the last crawling quintuplet . |
| 13 | I WAS interested to read a letter from my old headmaster , Mr D Henderson , expressing disappointment at the failure of his bid to establish a sixth form at Hummersknott School . |
| 14 | The exceptionally strong team , which included Mick Fowler — with whom Saunders made the first ascent of the ravishing Golden Pillar of Spantik — Caradog Jones and Steve Sustad , had hoped for an ascent of the mountain 's South East Spur — a 9,000 foot mega-Walker Spur . |
| 15 | Another reason for some optimism is the increase in personal possessions with which people enter the third age . |
| 16 | Its path is plotted on our star map , with its position marked every fifth morning . |
| 17 | Its path is plotted on our star map , with its position marked every fifth morning . |
| 18 | Motorola Inc has put Intel Corp on the spot with its decision to price the first iterations of the PowerPC chip at $280 each for the 50MHz 601 and $374 each for the 66MHz 601 in quantities of 20,000 or more , since these are about half the prices Intel had pencilled in for its Pentium chips ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 19 | You might also consider whether they ought to continue with their attempt to run a second restaurant at all . |
| 20 | Their problem , however , is trying to reconcile national curriculum demands with their desire to offer a second modern language , three sciences and perhaps Latin and Greek . |
| 21 | The younger Herschel had travelled to the Cape with his telescope to undertake the first survey of the southern skies with a first-class instrument , and his discoveries of nebulae were already causing a stir in the astronomical community . |
| 22 | If you fall into this category you will find Jane Lucas ' article on page 14 of interest , and for specific help with your jumping see the first of Jane Wallace 's super new series on cross country jumping on page 36 . |
| 23 | But you went back to the hangar a second time with your matches to start a second fire — to destroy the very work which you did . ’ |
| 24 | My third point is coming back to Chairman your point about the paragraph , the criterion paragraph of thirty three of P P G three , and the settlement in my view fails the first the first test , since the very city which it is supposed to relieve says that the need can be met , and I quote , within and on the edge of the urban area and villages . |
| 25 | Europe was first to industrialise and thereby throw up the indigent urban proletariat , who in their turn founded the first labour organisations which spawned Marxism and fascism , both truly European ideologies . |
| 26 | I hope that the British Council will give its fullest support to ventures of this kind in the future , and will encourage the group which met at Jaipur in their plan to hold a second Workshop to follow up the work of this one . |
| 27 | GERMANY , another side to have ‘ employed ’ the technical know-how of a foreigner ( Emil Signes , the former coach and current manager of the US Eagles sevens side ) were equally unsuccessful in their bid to reach the last four . |
| 28 | A competition was held , in which Haycock won the second premium ; and it was then decided to adopt his design but to put it ‘ into the hands ’ of Thomas Harrison of Chester [ q.v. ] , who made certain minor modifications to it . |
| 29 | In 1933 he starred with Wallace Beery in The Bowery , which included a fight scene on a barge in which Beery landed the first blow . |
| 30 | The journals in which researchers published the first paper relating to their research are shown in the following ranked table . |