Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 So was Stromness voted dry after the first war then or afore it ?
2 It may , in fact , be better to organise it for the day after you move , because being certain that everything will run according to plan on the day of the move is almost impossible , so it is better to do without your cooker overnight and schedule this for the next morning when you know you are definitely going to be there .
3 Moreover , in the 1890s the British for the first time consistently encouraged headmen to report all cases .
4 Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children .
5 Also , as a means of diffusing his own publications , this time through advertisement , he was among the backers in 1788 of the first evening daily , the Star and Evening Advertiser ; it created a precedent in offering a copy service to others .
6 Janet Bond , 42 , hospital employee ( left ) : ‘ I remember all this from the first time round !
7 Roger Owens is one of the is the quickest in the first division so
8 She agreed to do this before the next session so that it could be discussed further and then used later in the conjoint session with her parents .
9 Between Salvian in the fifth century A.D. and our friend Henri-Irenee Marrou in the twentieth century very few names of French intellectuals can be connected with Marseilles .
10 So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on .
11 Oh that 's about the answer in the back of the book , so I must have just gone wrong on the last bit here .
12 Trusting to things mechanical for the second time today , he sank below on a hydraulic platform designed for wheelchairs .
13 While a broad toleration of different opinions characterized Jewish religious thought as such during the first century B.C. the conflicts between political and religious leaders , especially of the Pharisaic persuasion , were murderous .
14 The control which state and interests together could exert over society and economy contributed to a uniquely low level of class conflict for much of the twentieth century so ensuring a political stability that reached a head over the period 19455 .
15 I did n't think much of the first time really .
16 During much of the nineteenth century almost half of the Lothian agricultural force consisted of women , though some of these were seasonal workers imported from Ireland and the Highlands .
17 By the end of the second day 's fighting , over 3,000 of its men had surrendered ; more than 1,200 from the 211th Regiment alone .
18 He outlined the long connections of the New River Head site back to early in the 17th century when what was probably the first privatised water company was established by James I ( VI of Scotland ) .
19 It was early in the 14th century when John Vachel disputed the rights across this land with the Abbot of Reading Abbey .
20 The find comprises five busts of various Roman divinities , two handles in the shape of lionheads and three winged brass sea-leopards dating from around the second to the third century AD .
21 A practical testing of Professor David Tweedie 's long-held wish for a ‘ hanging case ’ for the Financial Reporting Review Panel was frustrated at the last minute when Trafalgar House backed down and agreed to restate its 1991 figures in its next published accounts .
22 After the conquest of North Africa by Alexander the Great during the fourth century BC , the city of Alexandria was founded as a seat of learning .
23 ‘ I remembered the Factor 15 , better for the first day anyway . ’
24 Dick has a generous amount of time and experience in taildraggers like Staggerwings and T-6s but he wanted Bill Dodds who had broad P-40 for the first time so that he could compare the aircraft with others that he 's flown .
25 My period was late for the first time ever .
26 Let us go for a moment to the Acropolis at Athens , a well-spread group of different buildings , all of the fifth century BC .
27 Twenty-second of the third Tuesday then , when are we starting right , that was the second of the fourth .
28 THE RUC were given a let-off in the eighth minute when the home side were awarded a penalty , but player manager Jim Scott 's kick was saved by keeper Matthews .
29 I never disagree lightly with Elias Bickerman who has defended this tradition , already current in the second century B.C. — only one century after the alleged event .
30 In form they follow the standard pattern of Near Eastern treaties current in the 13th century BC , particularly those between vassals and their overlords ( see " Covenants and Near Eastern Treaties " ) :
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