Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me of first importance to confront this kind of question realistically and not to discredit one 's cause by refusing to admit that the clash exists . |
| 2 | Maclean opens his account in Madrid against local player Alberto Codina a week today , while for Donaldson , who reached the semi-finals of the Danish Open last month , the Guernsey event at the end of next month marks another breakthrough in that it is the first time she has gone straight in to the main draw for a Grade A tournament . |
| 3 | According to sources in Washington , officials in the Department of Commerce decided at the end of last year to recommend this strategy to the president as the most effective way of relinquishing responsibility for the US 's Landsat system . |
| 4 | The Scottish Office decided on Wednesday or Thursday of last week to transfer that question under the priority written procedure to the Secretary of State for Transport . |
| 5 | The shoulder straps were still the transverse type worn since 1861 ; they were of branch facing colour bordered with gold braid , and for ranks above second lieutenant bore applied metal insignia of rank as illustrated in the accompanying pattern drawing . |
| 6 | In second place came another Dublin team , ‘ The Random Strikers ’ from AIB , ably and professionally motivated by Theresa Rooney . |
| 7 | To apply formula in first instance assume that yield and nominal rate of interest on the CD are the same |
| 8 | The 119-page report is the result of a 10-month review led by the Press Council 's chairman , Mr Louis Blom-Cooper , who after meeting the full council yesterday said he expected it to take until next summer to reach final agreement on the recommendations . |
| 9 | With deregulation of Australia 's domestic air system from next year foreshadowing greater competition , both the pilots and the airlines see the dispute as a final show of strength . |
| 10 | The Apollo Players planned excerpts from Phantom of the Opera , Les Miserables and Miss Saigon for 25th anniversary shows next week . |
| 11 | From the 1930s to about 1970 the median interval from marriage to first birth remained 20 months . |
| 12 | Included in that hundred-day programme was what at first sight seemed substantial changes in his own bailiwick — a clutch of new ministries , of which the Department of Economic Affairs ( DEA ) was the most important . |
| 13 | More important , the big volcanoes which make up the Hawaiian Islands all seem at first sight to have central vents — they are mountains thousands of metres high , with craters right at the top . |
| 14 | None of the nine patients with an adherent clot at first examination developed major rebleeding . |
| 15 | It was , of course , by far a situation too good to last and in time , gazing down the glen , a solitary figure was spied struggling up the brae — without a kit-bag — the WAAFs identified their squadron officer ( known as Belladonna ) apparently about to make her first call on her troops in the wild , I was never able at first hand to witness this airmen 's paradise but it is a story that passed the rounds at Kinloss . |
| 16 | There are occasional academic studies which appear at first glance to support such interpretations , such as that of West , Roy and Nichols . |