Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 2 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 3 | It took several minutes , and then suddenly another wave pulled the last line free , unwinding from her thigh , to relinquish its grip like some long thin tentacle . |
| 4 | But Kevin Keegan 's team are still 12 points in front and their good-looking football dominated the first half and the last 20 minutes . |
| 5 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 6 | But the old soldier had the last laugh . |
| 7 | Further rioting occurred the next day when Douglas Hurd , the Home Secretary , visited the area . |
| 8 | ‘ The old boy married a second time and she 's a splendid woman . |
| 9 | Brave Piper took the seventh round on my card , while drawing three others , and impressed English judge Mickey Vann to make him a round up going into the climatic 11th , which made a joke of Piper 's manager Frank Warren having objected to Vann as a judge . |
| 10 | 6 October : The Duke of York , Trustee , this evening attended the 10th Anniversary Dinner of the Friends of Lakefield College School at the Cavalry and Guards Club , Piccadilly , London W1 . |
| 11 | Alan Davies ' men had good reason for jubilation as a spirited fight-back earned a first Championship win since 1989 . |
| 12 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 13 | Further problems emerged the next day when a barium swallow ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman quoted the first paragraph of AMMA 's report . |
| 15 | I am not surprised that the right hon. Gentleman avoided the first point , because the report to which my hon. Friend the Member for Poole ( Mr. Ward ) referred produced the following answer within the Labour party : ’ Some argue it will highlight one of our weaker points ’ . |
| 16 | Exciting stories emerged the next day of many killed and , particularly , the whisky running in the gutters from the warehouse many claimed to have collected the whisky in jam jars and all kinds of handy vessels . |
| 17 | The CO took the next trip , to Nordhausen on April 4 , but on this occasion carried an eighth crew member who acted as a second pilot . |
| 18 | British Gas announced a second quarter current cost loss before tax of £82m , compared with £183m profit in the same period last year . |
| 19 | Some teachers said the first draft of the unit was biased toward an anti-nuclear view , Ris concedes , but he adds that the final version is more balanced . |
| 20 | The French champions became the first club to hit six goals since the semi-final group system was introduced last season . |
| 21 | Early work on primate social systems yielded the first model of their social evolution in the mid-1960s . |
| 22 | On May 22 Liechtenstein became the seventh member of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) joining Austria , Finland , Iceland , Norway , Sweden and Switzerland ; hitherto Liechtenstein had had associate status through its customs union with Switzerland , but no vote . |
| 23 | This indenture made the 12th daye of June , the 20th yere of the Rayne of Kynge Harry the 8th . |
| 24 | During talks in Moscow in February 1986 the Iranian Foreign Minister proposed a second conference on Afghanistan , independent of the Geneva conference , which would be attended by Iran , Pakistan , the Soviet Union and the Afghan mujahidin . |
| 25 | In 1821 Smith made a fifth voyage to New South Shetland , but found British and American ships there , killing fur seals , which were almost exterminated in the next five years . |
| 26 | Khaled Nezzar became the first Defence Minister of Cabinet status appointed in 25 years . |
| 27 | Desert Storm , with its thousands of sorties a day , could have been planned without computers ( the Schlieffen plan launched the first world war with sweat and brainpower , little more ) ; but computers allow the plans to be fine-tuned and to be altered quickly . |
| 28 | There is some reason to doubt that all the discrepancies can be eliminated by taking account of the short-term/long-term distinction : Lantz 's ( 1973 ) demonstration of superior latent inhibition with spaced trials came from a procedure in which the first conditioning trial followed the last trial of pre-exposure ; James ' ( 1971 ) demonstration of perfect retention used , in training , the interstimulus intervals typical of studies of short-term habituation . |
| 29 | The popularity of this novel has been linked to its didacticism : a second edition followed the next year . |
| 30 | Nine rebleeders of the epinephrine group received a second injection ( 3 cases ) or epinephrine plus pure alcohol ( 6 cases ) and eight achieved ultimate haemostasis . |