Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 One could always spell it out : " The final word or words of a clause or sentence repeated as the first word or words of the next clause or sentence " ; and only use anadiplosis if the regularity of the feature required the economy of a label .
2 On 3 March 1987 the originating summons was amended by adding the seventh and eighth plaintiffs , and on 19 March 1987 it was further amended to seek accounts of all transactions entered into , and of all dealings with the property of the plaintiffs by the first defendant , and of all moneys received by or payment made by the first defendant or by the second or third defendants , and an inquiry whether any sums were due from the first defendant to the plaintiffs .
3 A high cut-off score is necessary since achieving it is taken to indicate mastery of a particular domain , or readiness to proceed to the next level of learning .
4 No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean .
5 His second example involved a transhipment bill of lading issued by the first carrier and damage or loss occurring on the second carrier 's vessel .
6 Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government .
7 a letter or figure printed on the first page of each section of a book and used as a guide when collating and binding .
8 Then incubate the embryos at room temperature for 15–30 min in the second layer ( an FITC- or TMRTC-conjugated antibody or IgG directed against the first antibody ) diluted appropriately in M2 .
9 On the western clay plateau at Orwell the number of customary tenants who held yardlands or half-yardlands declined during the first thirty years of the seventeenth century .
10 Although Stars & Stripes led on the first two legs , America 's speed prevailed .
11 Typically in English a paragraph is unified by the fact that it brings together material around a single point or topic indicated in the first sentence .
12 At present these are alkali works or works mentioned in the first schedule of the 1906 Act , as amended by the Health and Safety ( Emissions into the Atmosphere ) Regulations 1983 ( S.1 .
13 Sea defences : To reinforce the shorelines of the coastal strips separating the Lagoon from the Adriatic ( including reconstruction of the sea walls or murazzi built in the eighteenth century by the Venetian Republic along the seaward edge of the Lido and the island of Pellestrina and badly damaged by heavy seas in 1966 ) .
14 the number of characters ; ie letters , figures , signs or spaces in a piece of copy , line or paragraph used as a first stage in type calculations .
15 ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information .
16 But by all means take a flask of tea or coffee to drink during the first few hours , but flasked drinks always taste stale after ten or twelve hours .
17 So blackly venomous was his expression that Perdita fled towards the next pitch , scattering the polo balls which lay like a hatch of goose eggs near the goal posts .
18 It shows the appalling deprivation and human loss that Russians suffered during the Second World War and the difficulty that children of the thirties had in adjusting to life in post-war Russia .
19 The results showed that protein secreted during the first hour of stimulation was derived from pancreatic stores and that the turnover rate of stores was approximately 37%/h in normal human subjects .
20 In particular , Siegel ( 1967 ) found that a close examination of his results led to the conclusion ( see also Riley 1968 ) that it was unwarranted to assume that responses learned in the first stage could not be the source of the transfer seen in the second .
21 The three-year period , for example , between the death of Eorpwald and the accession of Sigeberht , could signify that Sigeberht succeeded in the third year after Eorpwald 's assassination .
22 The move that Barthes makes to a second order signification has important methodological implications .
23 Resentful souls on Earth , tethered there by obligation or obstinacy , muttered that Capella knew from the first what would be found on Mars and why .
24 There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’
25 By way of final illustration , we can apply Nozick 's refutation to Descartes ' sceptical argument about dreaming , and hence perhaps do better than Descartes did on the last page of the Meditations .
26 Ticket sales for this year 's Ryedale Festival have got off to a record start with more than £16,000 netted in the first three weeks and some events are already sold out , says director Geoffrey Emmerson .
27 It was noticeable that infringements occurred in the last quarter more than in the rest of the game and I put this down to tiredness and a resulting lack of concentration .
28 In short , the history of the Chaloners reminds one that people living in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were as varied and as human as we are today .
29 The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme .
30 Mitchell noted that banana exports in the first nine months of 1990 had totalled EC$78,000,000 , a 14 per cent increase on the corresponding period of 1989 .
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