Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 2 | This change came with the eighth in the Val Fajr series , launched in the south on 9 February in commemoration of the period seven years earlier when the Shah left and Khomeini returned from his sojourn in France . |
| 3 | This tragedy occurred in the last Grand Prix race on the old circuit and was won by James Hunt in a McLaren . |
| 4 | I am well aware of the atrocities that some Croatians perpetrated during the second world war , and of the tensions between Serb and Croat that go back long before that , which left a legacy of hatred and fear . |
| 5 | Despite the complaints of Rousseau and many others , this practice continued into the 19th century . |
| 6 | On Oct. 8 the German Bundestag approved at a first reading the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty on condition that it be given the final say over the introduction of a single European currency in the final stage of European monetary union ( EMU ) . |
| 7 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 8 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 9 | Lille 's mayor confirmed an agreement with Tour de France organisers for Lille to stage the prologue on 2 July followed by the first stage to Armentieres the next day . |
| 10 | This process continued during the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Another birdie came at the third as he holed from 15 feet , up then down hill , beyond the pin . |
| 12 | All this suspicion arose from the first nylon yarn that appeared on the market . |
| 13 | By the early decades of the twentieth century , the Kiel school 's theory of plankton growth had been widely accepted , but German oceanography collapsed after the First World War and the impetus passed to British and American scientists . |
| 14 | All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century , the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures . |
| 15 | Like the French Foreign Ministry the Posolskii Prikaz and College of Foreign Affairs showed during the eighteenth century an increasing tendency to divide into specialized departments . |
| 16 | An element of this notion survived into the fourteenth century , when the French kings were sometimes prepared to accept Plantagenet homage at Amiens or Boulogne rather than Paris . |
| 17 | Cooke notes that this equation of incorporation with public service continued into the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , with the general theory of corporate form still dominated by ‘ the concept of the corporation as a public body , an institution created by specific act of Parliament or the Crown for purposes approved as being in the national interest ’ . |
| 18 | Winter visitors disperse quite rapidly in April and May , and little through passage in spring is shown by the counts in Fig. 2 , except in 1973 and 1974 when a marked movement occurred in the second half of February . |
| 19 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 20 | Resolved , That this House welcomes Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer 's Autumn Statement , which reaffirmed the Government 's forecast of a modest recovery in the second half of 1991 , with growth gathering pace in 1992 ; notes that the total output of the British economy rose in the third quarter of 1991 , providing further confirmation of this forecast ; and congratulates the Government on its sound and prudent economic policies , which have reduced inflation from nearly 11 per cent . |
| 21 | This policy culminated in the 75th anniversary of the tramway in 1960 , which was a publicity triumph of the tramway . |
| 22 | It is the kind of ‘ big ’ development that is very out of fashion with the money men at present , and it is unlikely that we will be seeing anything on this scale started in the next few years . |
| 23 | Our clear frustration showed in the second half and we are as disappointed as our fans . |
| 24 | There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh . |
| 25 | There is evidence that this trend existed in the nineteenth century ( Hill 1925 ) as well as more recently . |
| 26 | The old man spoke for the first time . |
| 27 | In 1941 , the French Police cooperated in the first mass internments on French soil . |
| 28 | The disappointment Haslam inevitably felt at being let down in this way led to a second turning point in his career and one of those ‘ negative accidents ’ that ultimately proved to have a positive outcome . |
| 29 | Periodic relapse occurred over the next 4 months and I then gave Lyc LM1 . |
| 30 | Two of the reasons for this reputation came at the first two majors of the 1986 season — the US Masters and US Open . |