Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , again , are the planned towns scattered about the country in so haphazard a way , and so different in age and social type — Salisbury 's plan belongs to the thirteenth century ( Fig. 9 , p. 93 ) , Middlesbrough 's to the nineteenth . |
| 2 | Below : A late evening view taken as Oak 's engine runs for the first time since restoration . |
| 3 | In each of Jesus ' beatitudes , God 's blessing comes in the first line , and is then followed by the effect of this blessing on us in the second line . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The modern Tour de France begins with the first post-war race in 1947 . |
| 8 | This month 's front-lines-of-natural-history dispatch comes from the last stop before the North Pole — Norway 's Svalbard island , where assistant producer Amanda Barrett and cameraman Owen Newman — having arrived to shoot a film about arctic foxes — found themselves alone in a cabin outpost many miles across sea , tundra and ice from the nearest point of civilisation . |