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Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third .
2	So desperate has the tribe 's situation become that the government Indian foundation FUNAI is attempting to contact all the remaining uncontacted Awa , an action it only takes as a last resort .
3	If you put something like N H and then O H four well the convention is that when it 's a suffix stuff a subscript and a suffix below the line there and just after it , it only applies to the last element .
4	This project is a study of the origins of international trade disputes in manufactures since the nineteenth century .
5	And then it just says on the next page , ‘ Fagg angle ’ . ’
6	For all her action-seeking , caring cosmopolitanism , she is imperial-insular in outlook , and soon sees through the Third World .
7	The tonic accent normally falls on the last item , but this does not tell us where the given element ends and the new one begins .
8	Consider Best Bars as a first resort , regard the single cocktail you 'll shell out for as sheer investment , get yourself gift wrapped , send for our jetset silklook shirt , rid yourself of even that inch-of-pinch and the body beautiful will be guaranteed bait for ace race driver or millionaire financier in advanced stages of senility .
9	Second stage recovery generally begins in the third year .
10	The frequency of intercourse approximately halves in the first year of marriage but takes about 20 years to halve again .
11	It always goes onto the next number .
12	Flowering usually starts in the second year , with one flower head — the edible part — at the end of each shoot .
13	The change usually occurs on the first beat of a bar or phrase , which eliminates any fussiness when the footwork is intricate .
14	The next phase , the anal phase , usually occurs during the second year of the child 's life .
15	And it usually leads to the second thing which is to give some testimony .
16	I would expect further cuts over the next couple of months .
17	Wall fabric always sounds like the last word in luxury but in fact need not cost much .
18	As an added deterrent , this species usually waits until the last moment for the final clamping-down movement .
19	My friend Mike with the big house has n't phoned in yet has he either he usually phones in the last part of the programme .
20	The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page .
21	It also points to a third limitation within the sources ; that of genre .
22	If the position is correct then control automatically passes to the next option .
23	The current study clearly shows for the first time that PT-gliadin and/or fragments are intracellulary present in normal enterocytes after exposure .
24	This also applies to the first return .
25	The excavations in the early part of this century have made this a difficult building to interpret , but it is clear from the published plan that alterations had been made to the original structure , which probably dates from the third century .
26	The present dramatic ruin probably dates from the sixteenth century , although it is believed that Dunegal had his manor house on the site in the twelfth century .
27	The Pettingill family live in a house that probably dates from the seventeenth century when Jan Piers Piers ‘ the master of the dykes ’ drained this part of the region .
28	Lisa is eighteen and now lives on the nineteenth floor of a block of London flats with her nine-month-old daughter .
29	Often happens for a first night if it 's not selling … ’
30	Thou or You forms are frequently used to address personifications , at which point the Friend or Mistress often slips into the third person , as part of an imagined triangle .