Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun sg] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 His chief imperiall crowne upon his head , very precious ; his staff imperiall in his right hand , or an unicornes horne of three foot and a halfe in length , beset with rich stones .
2 It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played .
3 The service continued and included readings by the commanding officer of 38 Regiment and the mayor , prayers led by the canon and an address by the dean , the Very Reverend C R Campling .
4 One economist said : ‘ The Treasury forecast at the time of the Budget growth this year of 1 p.c. and a PSBR for 1992–93 of £26 billion excluding tax cuts .
5 The ending of one relationship and the beginning of another is a complex matter .
6 A scientific revolution corresponds to the abandonment of one paradigm and the adoption of a new one , not by an individual scientist only but by the relevant scientific community as a whole .
7 Each of the perjury charges carried a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 , while the possession charges carried maximum sentences of one year and a fine of $100,000 .
8 Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another .
9 What changes has the farmer made in recent years to the seven year plan for the use of one field and the application of fertiliser to it ?
10 Remember the days when a big do was a white dress made by the bride , the luxury of one bridesmaid and a spread of sandwiches in the Co-operative Halls afterwards ?
11 With the departure of one Secretary and the arrival of another , the office staff — apart of course from the members of the Signet Office — normally changed completely ; not until the early seventeenth century did a permanent bureaucratic organization begin to appear beneath the Secretary of State .
12 I know of one pub where the licensee gave out cards to the people he wanted to let in , ’ said Coun Cussins .
13 WordStar International Inc , Novato , California raised $5.9m in a second private placing of 2.7m units , each of one share and a warrant for a second share at $2.50 expiring 1996 .
14 The Writer is aware of one scheme where the planning brief was ignored by a developer , who as a result achieved an increase in density and was able to submit a substantially higher tender figure than other developers who had conformed to the planning brief .
15 Restrictions by the Ministry on grant made available for new appointments also meant that vacancies between the resignation of one tutor-organiser and the arrival of a successor could be prolonged .
16 Any mother who has to deal with the separation of one child and the divorce of another within a matter of weeks would be upset .
17 No one is totally of one type or the other .
18 It does mean that you will have to get either a converter , a lead with a socket of one type and a plug of the other type , or you will need a Y connector. , a socket connected to two plugs .
19 The School for Nightingales marked not only the end of one collaboration but the beginning of another , since the cast included , among the ‘ young ladies of the Academy ’ , a dancer using the stage name of Anne de Mohan .
20 Spread trading involves the simultaneous purchase of one future and the sale of another .
21 The signal is transferred across the synapse between the axon of one cell and the dendrite of another by neurotransmitters .
22 The government , he said , was now " committed to reconciliation " and this was " the closing of one chapter and the opening of another " .
23 THE BOWIE reissues continue and these two albums , both from '74 , represent the end of one chapter and the beginning of another in the grand old duke 's career .
24 THE BOWIE reissues continue and these two albums , both from '74 , represent the end of one chapter and the beginning of another in the grand old duke 's career .
25 For example , This shows that where two moles of hydrogen gas , H2(g) , combine with one mole of oxygen gas , O2(g) , two form two moles of liquid water , H2O(l) , at a pressure of one atmosphere and a temperature of 298 K , the enthalpy change is -571.6 kJ .
26 Some practices may already have small departments , possibly of one partner and a fee earner , whose principal work is in the area of personal injury .
27 It can be seen that comparisons between the sub-groups are made much easier if they have been sampled in this way ; there is no problem of having to cope with a preponderance of one group and a dearth of another if stratification has taken place beforehand .
28 These are the products of a technological mastery untempered by a political imagination capable of either managing it in the interest of the planet , or of inventing a machinery capable of arbitrating between differences of interest without condoning the annihilation of one side or the other .
29 It 's all to do with marketing but then again it 's all to do with the reason for that is I suppose that 's what people want you know if they see a video er er if they watch a video on television and they listen to the song it has to add up you know , it ca n't just be a a story book of one thing and a song about another thing you know .
30 What chance was there of this little community , riddled with prejudice and of limited intelligence , being able to discriminate between the strength of one argument and the strength of another ?
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