Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't even dared go near Furnival Gardens since I saw my old man for the second rime . |
| 2 | My key word for the next three days is born here out of a conversation with the increasingly vocal and 45-degree angled Fyfe . |
| 3 | Everything is flowing remarkably smoothly at present , so I can afford to give you my undivided attention for the next couple of weeks . |
| 4 | On 16 April , the day of the vigil , I put on my smart suit for the last of the interviews and went into work to look through the papers . |
| 5 | The leisure group , which has a significant holding in Rank Xerox , has included a summary unaudited balance sheet in its interim report for the first time ( the report covers the 28 weeks ended 16 May 1992 ) . |
| 6 | Transworld Communications ( operator of independent radio stations ) devotes a page to an unaudited half year summary in its interim report for the first half of 1992 . |
| 7 | In its interim report for the first half of 1992 , the insurance group has changed its accounting policy to reflect the total investment return — including realised and unrealised gains arising on its shareholder and general insurance funds — in its consolidated p&l account . |
| 8 | In its interim report for the first half of 1992 , the European packaging manufacturer has included the gross preference share dividends on the UK redeemable preference shares in finance charges , rather than as a distribution out of the net profits after tax and minority interests . |
| 9 | However , shareholders continue to suffer as the group halved its total dividend for the second year in a row . |
| 10 | It was after this that Mrs Kelsall , a midwifery sister and joint team leader , embarked on a project that was to take up most of her free time for the next two years . |
| 11 | GEC Ferranti and the managing director of its Scottish operation for the last five years , Ron Dunn , are to part company , writes Marcello Mega . |
| 12 | Curry , from London , outshone allcomers to retain her British title for the third year running . |
| 13 | At first glance , Lambeth 's 2.25% discount from its standard rate for the first 12 months of the loan looks a slightly better deal than Portman 's 2.0% discount for the same period . |
| 14 | The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years . |
| 15 | However , their leading woman for the first two seasons , June Brae , was a contemporary of Margot Fonteyn , returning to the stage after a break during the war . |
| 16 | The year before that , 1946 , baseball allowed a black man into its major league for the first time . |
| 17 | It is estimated that a modest increase from the present 1.8% , to 2% of total institutional expenditure , would enable us to maintain the services at their present level for the next five years . |
| 18 | Somerset have signed Pakistan legspinner Mushtaq Ahmed , 22 , as their overseas player for the next three years . |
| 19 | Charles White acted as her medical adviser for the last eight years or so of her life , until she died in February 1758 at the age of seventy . |
| 20 | In March 1991 IEA issued its Oil Market Report , with an update of its supply-demand balance for the first quarter of that year . |
| 21 | That afternoon she took me upstairs to her small bedroom for the first time . |
| 22 | It is in this context that the Conservative party presented its new programme for the third term , following the Queen 's speech ; a set of policies lent a coherence by the inner city problem : |
| 23 | The Annamese mandarin looked at Joseph 's eager face for a moment , then his eyes lost their watchful look for the first time and he smiled . |
| 24 | She wished she could believe that Mother Clare in Dublin would welcome Eve and tell her that the Dublin convent would be her new home for the next year . |
| 25 | I do welcome those who have travelled from York and Hull , perhaps seeing their new Cathedral for the first time . |
| 26 | This will coincide with the completion of intensive redecoration of the Primate 's Palace , thus enabling the complete sequence of all six tapestries to be seen in their original setting for the first time in thirty years . |
| 27 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I knew there was a snag in it , ’ Hoomey hooked round in his crisp bag for the last crumbs . |
| 29 | Presenting his budget this week , the finance minister , Wang Bingqian , used his favourite word for the third year running to describe the state of the public purse : ‘ grim ’ . |
| 30 | But it is hoped that in doing so , it will also help him to continue his untiring work for the Third World and enrich the lives of those poor people , particularly in Africa . |