Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At no. 6 lived Anne Knight , a widow born in Horningsham , Wilts. , where , by coincidence , a number of Titfords had been baptised in the mid-17th century ; no. 8 contained the Tomlinson family , a hay salesman 's bookkeeper from Norwich ; George Childs at no. 10 described himself grandly as a ‘ Landscape Painter ’ , and at no. 14 a lady called Mary Archer was in business as a private lodging-house keeper , assisted by Eliza Wade , her 17-year-old servant from Stepney . |
| 32 | Also , many new methods for analysing maps have been developed in the last decade and the UK is a world leader in this field of spatial statistics . |
| 33 | A new Communication and Information Thesaurus has been developed from the second edition of Unesco 's Mass Communication Thesaurus . |
| 34 | despite no implied obligation on a landlord to maintain land over which a right of way had been given to a third party there was an obligation in the case where use of property would be impossible in the absence or without that obligation . |
| 35 | Similar thought has been given to the next run of ‘ Sir Lamiel ’ scheduled for Friday , March 12th . |
| 36 | On the second visit Mr. Burgess was given instructions different from those he had been given on the first visit . |
| 37 | Members heard funding had been given for a fourth ear , nose and throat surgeon . |
| 38 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 39 | He hated untidiness and waste ; he thought that babies who threw things from their cradles should be punished , and children who would n't eat their food should be starved until they ate what they had been given in the first place . ’ |
| 40 | The negotiations were extremely complex and detailed and the whole issue has been referred to the next stage of IBOA/Bank procedures which is an Independent Tribunal . |
| 41 | Whether the bloom shape is the ultimate , only time will tell , for there have been other occasions in the development of the rose when a new type has been regarded as the last word . |
| 42 | If you are recalled for a second interview it is worth changing to a different outfit altogether if you can afford it or have something else suitable . |
| 43 | On the other they disapproved of some of the impediments which had been erected in the twentieth century : the requirements of a lis inter partes and a superadded duty to act judicially were said to be false constraints . |
| 44 | It had been erected in the second half of the second century to house c number of specialist kilns and furnaces , but clearly overlay the remains of earlier bonfire kilns and spreads of potters ' clay . |
| 45 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 46 | NATO had been formed after the Second World War in order to tie North America and Western Europe together in a military alliance against the perceived threat of world domination by the Soviet Union . |
| 47 | This collection had been formed in the second half of the eighteenth century by John Hunter who was largely responsible for raising surgery from a craft to a profession in England , and was the greatest anatomist and physiologist of his day . |
| 48 | Hybridisation of SstI digested DNA with the 450bp SstI-XhoI probe C ( figure 1 , right ) further resolved the strongest hypersensitive site ( HS5 ) into two subsites , HS5A and HS5B , which are 100bp apart and are situated in the first intron around position +3600bp ( relative to the cap site ) . |
| 49 | In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way . |
| 50 | Model conversations are intended in the first instance , for mimicry-memorization , to help the student to use freely the common expressions in the language . |
| 51 | According to some reports Li 's speech had been revised at the last moment to bring it in line with the current Dengist campaign . |
| 52 | Coel and that the Ayrshire legend has been mis-placed in the 8th century ; it is possible also that Coilus was a descendant of Coel ; we will never know . |
| 53 | Two projects in the area of personal and social development have been completed within the last year : |
| 54 | Sixteen houses have been completed in the first phase of a re-development scheme which will eventually remove all the 1960s-built flats . |
| 55 | This requires firms that are approached for a second opinion to contact the auditor to see if there are any relevant facts that they ought to know . |
| 56 | For example , medicine ran to 80 pages , whereas the schedule for chemical technology had hardly been modified since the second edition . |
| 57 | Note the effect of the pizzicato chord for 1st violins and cellos at the beginning , and that the directions ‘ arco , unis. ’ , have not been omitted from the 1st violin part on its re-entrance . |
| 58 | ‘ I was always proud to play for my country and I 'm baffled why I should have been omitted in the first place , for the linesman incident was trivial . |
| 59 | Reports of military gains by the Cambodian resistance have almost certainly been exaggerated in the last week , and estimations by the Thai and Chinese military intelligence agencies of the number of Vietnamese troops supposedly left behind in Cambodia appear little more than fanciful . |
| 60 | Follow Me , which is also mainly a vehicle for language items , is different in that some sections are designed as the first introduction to a language item . |