Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] and [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Testing of children has always legitimately had separate purposes : diagnostic — to enable the teacher to calibrate their own assessment of a child 's difficulty and judge the next best line for development ; setting of tests to establish mastery of a particular piece of learning when of concept , skill or information ; and standardised to set one 's own information against some comparators .
2 Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it .
3 This lifts the team 's morale and encourages the next in line .
4 Instead , they drove south , down the western side of the estuary , to a pull-in at the end of a lane , whence Mossop and Heather had walked down to the river 's edge and taken the third photograph .
5 Sharp icicles fly out from the caster 's hand and strike the first unit or model in their path .
6 She did not share Antonia 's interest in dissecting last week 's date and plotting the next .
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