Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 2 | Some die at the first hint of frost ; others , for example the damp-living larvae of chironomid midges , can be subjected repeatedly to temperatures of -20°C and below , with up to 90% of their body water frozen , and recover completely on thawing ( Scholander et al , 1953 ) . |
| 3 | Most experimental studies of sleep now allow subjects a night of acclimatization to laboratory conditions , so that on their first night they are wired up in the usual way , but whatever recordings made are discarded , and the experiments proper begin on the second night . |
| 4 | CHESTER-based Paul Affleck and South African Ian Palmer both joined Ian Woosnam on the 67 mark in the first round of the Honda Open in Hamburg yesterday . |
| 5 | Those manuscripts with both books or only Book 2 belong to the fifteenth century . |
| 6 | I mean , cotton and things like this come from the Third World , does n't it . |
| 7 | Cork 's late strike made sure of a top 10 place for the first time since promotion — ‘ and a nice bonus , judging from the long faces in our boardroom , ’ grinned Mr Bassett . |
| 8 | Use of a highly similar construct for the second axis means that the resulting map represents only one rather than two dimensions of judgment . |
| 9 | Two minutes later Leota was seen at his exciting best when he made a midfield break from 45 yards which took him clean through the Rovers defence , and when Taewa scored his second try in the 72nd minute Rovers looked to be subsiding fast . |
| 10 | Centre Andy Currier landed a penalty goal and outstanding Welsh wing John Devereux added Widnes ' second try in the 72nd minute . |
| 11 | Andre Stoop and Betts , who added his second try in the 75th minute , took Eagles by surprise down the left flank and released Offiah . |
| 12 | In 1976 , unemployment in Britain passed the one-million mark for the first time since the Second World War . |
| 13 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 14 | Any description of individual habits in this AL is influenced by the interplay of the four components of the model already discussed and how these focus on the fifth component , individuality in communicating . |
| 15 | He scored a three count on the last end of the final match against Essex for victory as Suffolk 's young bowlers held their breath for an improbable win . |
| 16 | All these date from the fifteenth century . |
| 17 | These date from the fifteenth century . |
| 18 | These occur in the second half of pregnancy , and there is nothing you can do to prevent them . |
| 19 | None the less , it was felt , firstly by societies themselves of course but eventually by government , that the existing rules , based on ideas which dated remember from the eighteenth century , placed them at a serious disadvantage . |
| 20 | All change in the second half . |
| 21 | They competed for the Henderson Young Show-Jumpers Award , with many overcome in the first round , including Points Table winner Andrew Davies . |
| 22 | Boro were also out of luck when Danish international goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel denied substitute Wille Falconer with a brilliant save in the first period of extra time . |
| 23 | Australian Daryl Beattie , 23 , covering for Gardner , set himself up for a top-three finish at the first attempt as a factory-supported rider . |
| 24 | In 1987/88 , the number of certificates issued in a session topped the 100,000 mark for the first time — almost 115,000 were issued . |
| 25 | In comparison with the other two passages , this one has a rather low frequency of nouns ( 4 ) ; moreover , over half of these nouns are abstract ( 20 ) , referring to entities which exist on a social or psychological plane : effort , subject , terms , money , feelings and aristocracy all occur in the first sentence . |
| 26 | But once Naas Botha equalised in kind , the tourists edged ahead and were out of sight by the time Danie Gerber scored their fourth try in the last minute . |
| 27 | Oh sorry apologize to the last guy he did n't . |
| 28 | They first appear in the fifth Century AD as part of the Christian scene . |
| 29 | If any of the above apply on the first day of the PIW , do not pay SSP . |
| 30 | When I lost my first serve in the first set , it threw me off a bit . |