Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Society of Chemistry has published the fifth edition of McCance and Widdowson 's The composition of foods . |
| 2 | The concept of equality has dominated the twentieth century . |
| 3 | This exhibition has been sponsored jointly by An Post and the Office of Public Works to mark the 75th Anniversary of the 1916 Rising . |
| 4 | It was widely believed that there were no human fossils , so the recent appearance of humankind seemed to represent the last step in the ascent of life . |
| 5 | Despite onerous hours — he starts work at 4am and leaves the office about midnight having scanned the first editions of the next day 's newspapers — he has faith in his product , although he cheerfully admits that it needs tweaked into shape . |
| 6 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 7 | Former Olympic XC skiier , Croasdale is the man in form having won the first two rounds of the British championship breaking course records in the process , and clocking a useful 63–47 for the half marathon in York . |
| 8 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 9 | Although with treatment they made gains in growth at least comparable with other patients , 59% ( 10 of 17 ) followed up to maturity failed to reach the third centile for adult height . |
| 10 | The term he had spent at school trying to understand the first thing about physics had been wasted . |