Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
| 2 | Horror stories abound , originally fuelled by the publication of Ruth Harrison 's Animal Machines ( 1964 ) , a book which in Britain directly influenced the setting up of the first parliamentary inquiry into the new methods of animal husbandry under the chairmanship of F.W.R. Brambell . |
| 3 | American driver Ross Cheever , winner of the first race of the series , went out of the second round event after tangling with German Volker Weidler , also in a Reynard . |
| 4 | Geoff Cooke left him out of the first international squad gathering on the grounds that Skinner had dropped down a division to play with Blackheath and therefore was obviously not too bothered about his international prospects . |
| 5 | After the morning foursomes had been shared , Yorkshire took a firm grip on the proceedings when they won five out of the first six afternoon singles but then the young players took a hand . |
| 6 | The judgment in the case , Re Letters Rogatory out of the First Civil Court of City of Mexico , is badly flawed but was followed almost without exception for half a century . |