Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realize that I need to work my way through the next passages with care and delicacy . |
| 2 | Oxford United hope to secure their place in the second round of the Coca Cola Cup tonight . |
| 3 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 4 | On May 13 Don W. Wilson — who , as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration , was generally accepted as the custodian of the Constitution — declared his support for the validity of the measure and stated that he was preparing to certify its adoption as the 27th Amendment . |
| 5 | Methodism had clearly not yet achieved the success that was to come its way during the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 7 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 8 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 9 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 10 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 11 | Grady slipped with a 75 but made the cut , as did Roger Davis with a splendid 68 to retrieve his position after a first round of 77 . |
| 12 | Did you really expect to find your mother on the first day ? |
| 13 | Apparently fearing that an increasingly angry president might try to disband the legislature , deputies also voted to continue their session into a fourth day today , ‘ to watch attentively that the executive observes the constitution ’ , in the words of the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov . |
| 14 | Even ratting contests and prize-fights seemed to lose their appeal in the last quarter of the century . |
| 15 | But to describe the issue as one which depends on whether or not the bank must be taken to have appointed the husband as its agent to deal with the wife and to procure her consent serves , in my opinion , to mask the basis upon which in certain cases creditors have failed to enforce their security against the third parties and upon which in other cases they have succeeded . |
| 16 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
| 17 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 18 | These enable the original owner of the deposit to sell its ownership to a third party if the need arises and make the time deposit instantly realisable , albeit at a price . |
| 19 | Gooch and the England selectors meet in Manchester to choose their squad for the second Test at Lord 's , and Atherton 's place as Gooch 's opening partner is one of those up for discussion . |
| 20 | THE new government had to draft in a hasty replacement to lead its delegation to the first annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development following the election defeat of overseas development minister Lynda Chalker . |
| 21 | He arrived before them to coordinate their integration into the first U S Marine expeditionary force ; he says the first task for his men will be acclimatisation with desert temperatures still in the high nineties . |
| 22 | Readers may be familiar with textbooks that set out to define their subject in the first chapter . |
| 23 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 24 | Social work has begun to evaluate its effectiveness in the last fifty years , and Sheldon ( 1986 ) has described two separate waves of reviews and researches . |
| 25 | The blonde hostess leaned across him to re-charge his glass for the umpteenth time . |
| 26 | Macdonald tried unsuccessfully to find a magistrate to receive his oath at the last minute , then sent his papers to Edinburgh , where Secretary of State and Master of Stair Sir John Dalrymple suppressed them . |
| 27 | In his keynote speech to the conference on June 26 Hawke savagely attacked the Liberal-National Party opposition and promised to lead his party to a fifth election victory . |
| 28 | It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years . |
| 29 | QUICK OPINION * , who failed by the narrowest margin to open his account at the fifth attempt when a short-priced favourite at Nottingham , may make amends in the Fairview New Homes Novice Chase ( 2.30 ) at Ascot , writes Course Correspondent . |
| 30 | With exquisite logic , Sonic Boom is on the panel , a man who could n't stop talking , I 'm sure , if he could be bothered to open his mouth in the first place . |