Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the historical tripos he received a third class in both parts i ( 1915 ) and ii ( 1916 ) . |
| 2 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 3 | By consistently applying quantum mechanics to Maxwell 's theory of the electromagnetic field he constructed the first known specimen of a quantum field theory . |
| 4 | In this chapter we consider the first of these problems : the growth of public expenditure and the difficulties surrounding its control . |
| 5 | At the age of 39 and 105 days he becomes the ninth oldest player in history to make his Test debut in Friday 's historic encounter between South Africa and India in Durban . |
| 6 | Gloucester went on to the final that season while Gosforth merged with the Newcastle club to create a new force in northern rugby … this season they lead the second division … they 're unbeaten too … so Gloucester are up against it |
| 7 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 8 | This year we see the third and final pack on evangelisation . |
| 9 | In the fourteenth century mystical awakening we see the first signs of a deeper and more committed type of religion , which would finally culminate in both Protestant and Catholic reformations . |
| 10 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
| 11 | The following month he reached the third round of the glitzy Paris tournament and he had cracked it . |
| 12 | As one of Wesley 's leading preachers he attended the first Methodist conference in 1744 and in 1748 promoted the system of ‘ quarterly meetings ’ to oversee the local Methodist ‘ circuits ’ ( groups of societies ) . |
| 13 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 14 | In the twilight of his playing days he won a Second Division Championship medal with Preston North End . |
| 15 | In assessing how much is spent on domestic output we add the first four items . |
| 16 | ‘ The previous season I missed the last 12 games through a hernia operation and Achilles tendon trouble . |
| 17 | From the humble beginnings of the previous year you flew the first great test of concept of long-range strategic bombardment . |
| 18 | That Sunday she took the first positive step towards keeping a check on her child . |
| 19 | Erm by , as many definitions we spend a third of our lives at work , whe where you spend the other two thirds ? |
| 20 | On 6 January he attended the first of the sessions of the high court of justice preparatory to the trial , and then attended most sittings of the court . |
| 21 | Gunzenhauser makes the very best of the repetitive rhythmic ideas of the outer movements and although he is perhaps a share more rhythmically plainspun than Kertész , in the first movement he eases the second subject in very nicely and the lolloping theme of the third movement Allegretto has much folksy charm . |
| 22 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 23 | On the one hand they rediscovered the nineteenth century jurisprudence which had applied the principle to a broad spectrum of interests and a wide variety of decision-makers . |
| 24 | The first thing he said the next day was ( no pretending ) has she been a bitch to you ? |
| 25 | One year they won the second grade championship , with Mains as an outstanding left-footed fullback , but were not able to regain a place among the senior Dunedin clubs . |
| 26 | It is not surprising that in this period of increased sensitivity to the emerging ecological problem we find the first Utopia based upon ecological as well as social ideals . |
| 27 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
| 28 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 29 | In the same year he joined the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment as a second lieutenant and served in the South African war . |
| 30 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |