Example sentences of "[adj] [num ord] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We wanted this first tour to give some feeling to the kids . ’
2 The former branch of this first dichotomy takes written language at once into a mode which speakers seldom use .
3 This first edition has two chapters 28 owing to a mistake which occurred in the printing of the monthly numbers and remained uncorrected until the appearance of PP in the Cheap Edition .
4 All that turbulence went on elsewhere for each and this third circle linking two others was its own territory .
5 This last category included five groups associated with Mencap Homes Foundation projects which while benefiting from CMHT support were part of a wider supportive structure , but they also included four other groups which were primarily assisted by the teams .
6 This last domain contains six subdomains which exhibit different protection by the wild-type enzyme against hydroxyl-radical cleavage , the strongest protection being observed at -20 , -30 and -40 , this becoming progressively weaker at -50 , -60 and -70 ( Fig. 3a , lane 2 ; Fig. 3b , row 2 ) .
7 This last point implies that psychoanalysis , as such , is not concerned with the truth or falsity of religious beliefs , and that it rather counteracts the earlier arguments about religious beliefs being neither justified by sense experience nor rational arguments .
8 This last example demonstrates elegant inter-weaving of a shrewd observation .
9 Thirty-four of the company 's reservoirs were contaminated with faecal coliforms , and drinking water was also found to contain excessive levels of pesticide residues. 80 per cent of its water supply areas failed at one time or another last year to meet statutory requirements .
10 The early nineteenth century saw major developments in embryology , which challenged the mechanical concept of generation and overthrew the preformation theory .
11 Moreover , the early sixteenth century saw tentative signs of further differentiation .
12 The Icelandic saga writer Snorri Sturluson was by the early thirteenth century calling this brother Eglaf , and identifying Ragnvald as earl of Västergötland in Sweden .
13 His brief tenure of power in Java in the early 19th century saw more reform than the centuries of Dutch oppression .
14 The church ran primary education , and even among the intellectuals Orthodoxy was not without vigour : the early twentieth century brought remarkable conversions to Christianity among Russian Marxists .
15 The early 18th century saw various periods of disuse and 400 tons of iron were produced between 1731 and 1732 .
16 By contrast the French monarchy of the early seventeenth century employed 40,000 officers , roughly one for every 400 inhabitants , giving a density of bureaucrats ten times that of England ; and many of the French officials served in regional or local government .
17 Baker will miss out on a proposed £80,000 move to Torquay and Pool 's remaining Third Division matches this season .
18 He flopped onto Jason Wilcox 's feeble first effort to complete 48 hours of cup misery for Kenny Dalglish and his expensive stars .
19 Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds .
20 Entry fees to the Stock Exchange were put up by members of the Surrey committee in the late nineteenth century to help impecunious gentleman-cricketers .
21 The Wars of Independence which began in the 1290s and lasted into the late fourteenth century changed that situation radically .
22 In 1720 the ban on the import of foreign books was relaxed , and a series of encounters with foreign representatives from the late eighteenth century portended that seclusion could not permanently be maintained .
23 In fact simple substitutions of characters such as l , i , t , f , and ‘ \ ’ for each other is an effective first attempt to find correct words , because these characters frequently confuse with each other .
24 Here , in the suburbs of the Metropolis , members of the extended family whose ancestors had parted company down in Wiltshire as long ago as the late 16th century found neighbouring resting places .
25 If a child of the late twentieth century asked this question of a parent , it is unlikely that he would receive an answer that would be intelligible to him .
26 What we already know of the Titfords can serve as a model : Charles the Cheesemonger in the late 18th century had 13 children , seven of whom died in infancy ; his grandson , Benjamin the Silversmith , had reduced the number of offspring to five , and would live to see all but one reach adulthood .
27 The rigidity of what was expected from children in terms of compliance to religious and moral ideologies could have no more perfect expression than in the two small late 18th century carved wooden figures of the Blue Coat Schoolboy and Schoolgirl which until recently were to be found in All Saints Church , Maidstone .
28 In the context of acute hospitals in the NHS , it is the logical next stage to follow case-mix accounting , and could be introduced with some changes to the funding structures of the NHS .
29 212,558 was the total attendance for ten Premier League matches , comparing with the opening of ten First Division matches last year of
30 The occupant returned home at 10.30 last night to find flammable liquid had been poured through the letterbox .
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