Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Beggs , has been lobbying hard for money to build a fifth Shuttle-orbiter , and the academy 's assessment could help loosen the purse strings at the white House . |
| 2 | In 1985 , however , the Ministry of Agriculture took a first step towards meeting environmentalists ' objections , with a new ‘ Guidance for Drainage Authorities ’ on investment appraisal . |
| 3 | The combination of a 10 per cent rate of interest with a £67.5 million level of income represents a second point on the LM curve , plotted as point D in graph ( d ) . |
| 4 | Another aspect of routinisation reveals a third set of factors : the need for authoritative opinion . |
| 5 | However , more recently , in Eurocopy plc v Teasdale , reported in the journal PLC in November 1991 , the Court of Appeal upheld a first instance decision , and dismissed an application to strike out a defence , that in connection with a sale and purchase agreement , the actual knowledge of the purchaser might still be a defence to a claim for breach of warranty notwithstanding a clause in the sale and purchase agreement which provided that no actual or constructive knowledge on the part of the purchaser would prejudice a claim . |
| 6 | Forensic experts believe he shot his son in the head and was then spattered with blood firing a second bullet point blank into 14-year-old Adam . |
| 7 | East won with the king and returned a second club to dummy 's king , with South discarding a second diamond from hand . |
| 8 | With techno enjoying a second coming in Leeds and banging out of every other shop in the renovated arcades on Saturdays , some people were getting home after a day 's shopping and fancying something a bit different . |
| 9 | In his book on Environmental Systems Dury ( 1981 ) adopts an approach to physical environment in which he adopts the four-fold classification of systems devised by Chorley and Kennedy ( 1971 ) but in addition adds a fifth type in the form of an ecosystem justified as including ‘ sets of biosystems which interact with one another and with their immediate physical environment ’ . |
| 10 | That discussion in turn reflected a second difference . |
| 11 | The aim of the course was to get group members to think about disability issues in order to take a first step forward in working together . |
| 12 | Special weight was laid on reconciliation within the family , and prodigal sons were urged to speed to the parental bedside in order to receive a last blessing . |
| 13 | In order to obtain a first idea of how space–time behaves across the horizon , consider an instrumented space probe falling along a radial path into a black hole . |
| 14 | The Bishop in his reply added that he had in fact consecrated a third pro-Cathedral ; after extensive repairs , St George 's in York had been re-consecrated by him . |
| 15 | He crossed the street , dodging the traffic , reaching the door in time to see a second figure stepping into the elevator . |
| 16 | ‘ Fignon was informed in time to have a second test done , ’ Alaphilippe said . |
| 17 | A third party may similarly apply for leave to issue a fourth party notice , and so on ( Ord 12 , r 6 ) . |
| 18 | The Parliament Act 1911 still recites that ‘ it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis ’ and explains the Act itself as a temporary measure pending such a substitution . |