Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting Hamlet in the cavernous St George 's Hall proved the Everyman Theatre had perhaps more resolve than the diffident Hamlet and they , and last night 's audience , were rewarded with a memorable occasion , if not the greatest ever Hamlet on stage . |
| 2 | Dr Who fan Gavin Fuller , 24 , last night became the youngest ever champion of Mastermind . |
| 3 | Derek started watching the six o'clock news on television that evening in a distracted mood , only for his attention to be seized by mention of the name Abberley during the preamble to film of a press conference held earlier in the day at Newbury Police Station . |
| 4 | The Thrift Shop is open only on Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays from after the 10 o'clock Mass until midday . |
| 5 | But first flying in the face of the worst ever recession in air travel , Virgin Atlantic is doubling its fleet and adding new routes , a high risk strategy . |
| 6 | April 1990 saw the worst ever series of prison riots , including a 25-day riot and siege at Strangeways Prison , Manchester . |
| 7 | This belief was dispelled in the 1940s when advances in technique showed that both kinds of nucleic acid were present in all cells , and that the deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) was relatively stable while the ribonucleic acid ( RNA ) was being continually synthesized and decomposed . |
| 8 | he sat up last night , he sat up last night we was gon na watch the ten o'clock movie on telly with me . |
| 9 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 10 | Twenty-six racial equality officers came to the university to enrol in classes for the first ever diploma in race and community relations . |
| 11 | The Education Bill of 1987 is the first ever piece of legislation to restrict the powers of local education authorities . |
| 12 | This Government has embarked on the first ever strategy for health . |
| 13 | Oh it should be covered definitely , I mean I watch I mean you 've got all the extended programmes , I mean last night I watched the nine o'clock news until ten o'clock and then the one o'clock news at dinner time until two and , and erm various things , I mean I think it 's quite enough myself , I mean I 'm speaking as an ex-soldier at seventy years old , and I think well I do n't think really that people necessarily want to hear it all , even the people who 've got people over there . |
| 14 | After scooping the rights to The Simpsons , Batman Returns , Alien 3 and Terminator 2 , a Cheetah spokesperson described the concept as ‘ possibly the biggest ever tie-up in film licensing and video game hardware history … a truly new product concept . ’ |
| 15 | A GREENPEACE crew tracking a freighter with the biggest ever cargo of plutonium said their boat was rammed by a Japanese warship yesterday . |
| 16 | Many reunions of the men who flew to the airfield all over East Anglia , but yesterday saw the biggest ever get-together of combat airmen in Britain . |
| 17 | Bob Geldof 's initiative resulted in the biggest ever sum of money being wrung out of the haves on behalf of the have-nots ; in itself and in isolation an admirable achievement . |
| 18 | Up to the four o'clock news with Sniff in the tears , dedicated to me . |
| 19 | A narrow social grouping just does n't produce a rich enough mixture of ability and talent to regenerate a country . |
| 20 | There is no one ‘ best ’ policy , merely one that secures a broad enough basis of support to be agreed upon and passed . |
| 21 | Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year . |
| 22 | Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest , while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year . |
| 23 | It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time . |
| 24 | This is a high enough level of protection to control the diseases and prevent epidemics devastating whole communities . |
| 25 | The real trick is then to sustain a high enough level of air play , press and TV to allow the record to ‘ cross-over ’ and appeal to people other than the band 's fans . |
| 26 | There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies . |
| 27 | There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies . |
| 28 | However , so few of the possible quadgrams occur in the LOB ( and of those found , 70% only occur once ) that it would appear that the LOB corpus is not a large enough sample of text to provide a reliable quadgram model . |
| 29 | Given a large enough supply of machine catalogues and enough flexibility of mind to give yourself different problems , an inventive woodworker could spend the entire winter playing this game . |
| 30 | They are carried by it only if the water has enough energy to lift and shift them — that is , if there is a great enough mass of water , moving sufficiently quickly . |