Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 32 | Sporadic firing and the misery of Joseph 's people continued for the next two days . |
| 33 | Zhelev 's victory came in the second round run-off , when he won 53 per cent of the vote against 47 per cent for Velko Valkanov , an independent supported by the ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party . |
| 34 | The Anglicans were divided — the stoutest of Irish Protestants versus a few stiff Anglo-Catholic parishes ; and in a fight the sympathies of Ramsey 's parish lay with the second . |
| 35 | Dungannon 's Eddie Sinton finished fourth in the 600 newcomers race , won unexpectedly by Mark Flynn , after Belfast 's Chris Richardson 's motor stopped on the last lap when he was in an unassailable lead . |
| 36 | Perryman 's relief came in the 52nd minute when Ken Charlery , his Pounds 350,000 signing from Peterborough , scored his third goal in seven matches to bring an end to more than 400 minutes of League football without Watford scoring . |
| 37 | The nun 's call coincided with the first of the bombs . |
| 38 | Croydon 's turn came in the third stage on the night of Saturday 7 April 1951 . |
| 39 | Oxford 's Mark Carlsson was the first casualty crashing out of heat eleven … then it was Troy Butler 's turn to tumble in the last race … |
| 40 | As Ciaran Fitzgerald 's charges bombed for the fourth time in succession to comfortably claim the tournament 's Wooden Spoon . |
| 41 | McCarthy 's mistake came in the 76th minute when he allowed a long ball to go over his head , and Guy Whittingham nipped in for the equaliser . |
| 42 | The summer tradition of recapping all the year 's exhibitions ends on the last day of the month at the Zabriskie , while Marie-Jo Lafontaine continues at the Montaigne gallery until the 18th . |
| 43 | Yesterday 's hearing came in the seventh week of the dispute which began as a strike in protest over lay-offs then led to the sacking of 340 workers . |
| 44 | Baroness Hooper 's letter states on the first page with regard to student loans : ‘ Students are not obliged to take up a loan if they do not need to do so and indeed Jeffrey has not availed himself of the facility . ’ |
| 45 | Unfavourable reaction to the Commission 's Report led to the first ever national conference in Great Britain of Adult Deaf and Dumb Missions and Associations , which at that time numbered upwards of thirty-six . |
| 46 | Roberto 's shot came at the 16th . |
| 47 | The First Test in Sydney was a rusty performance with the backline 's cohesion missing during the first half before the dominance of the Wallaby forwards at the scrum and line-out took control in the second half to enable them to pile on 20 points and quickly reverse the 9–7 half-time deficit . |
| 48 | The all-women crew on the British 58-footer , Maiden , skippered by Tracy Edwards , has now slipped to 70 miles behind Rucanor , but is expected to lead in Friday 's trio followed by the second cruiser , With Integrity , the old GBII , and the West German yacht , Schlussel von Bremen . |
| 49 | Wattana 's century followed in the tenth frame but he was able to win only one more as Hendry well and truly took control . |
| 50 | Leapor 's reputation subsided in the nineteenth century , but she was noticed occasionally . |
| 51 | United 's goal came in the first half … top marks for winger Max Nicholson … he kept control … kept his head and then smashed it home … low and hard … |
| 52 | Abolitionists thus presented themselves to the world and to each other as part of a continuous progress despite the significant disjunctures in the movement 's history discussed in the last chapter ( pp.65–6 ) . |
| 53 | The tackle that ended McManaman 's threat came in the 104th minute . |
| 54 | Lendl , who won his third successive Open title in 1987 , retired against Australian qualifier Neil Borwick while trailing 4-6 6-4 3-1 and became the record fifth men 's seed to lose in the first round this year . |
| 55 | Though they are contemptuously referred to as ‘ page turners ’ , they are nevertheless texts and can engage the attention of those reading them , even developing patterns of thought which may affect the real world , as Disraeli 's novels did in the last century . |
| 56 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 57 | Last night , members of Pringle 's family spoke for the first time about police handling of the siege . |
| 58 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 59 | The proposal is for employers ' contributions to begin on the first pound of earnings . |
| 60 | The London firms ' revenues plummeted by a third from 1989 's level . |