Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |
| 2 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 3 | In contrast , at times Durie looked ready to scream , especially when the errors started creeping in during the second set of her 6-2 , 7-6 win over the promising Yayuk Basuki . |
| 4 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 5 | The final component of the system is a new management tool , the OpenServer Remote Manager ( list price £2,650 ) , which works in conjunction with an OpenServer Management Agent that is to be added to the OpenServer 400 family : it is initially to be incorporated onto the Unix version ( expected at the end of the month ) , with MS-DOS and OS/2 versions following along during the second quarter of the year . |
| 6 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 7 | Bill Clinton swept in as the 42nd president of the United States with a landslide victory and the promise of a new beginning . |
| 8 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 9 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 10 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 11 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |
| 12 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 13 | For example , a number of women 's issues arose as statistically significant differences , but instead of finding a discussion of these results the reader is swept along into the next batch of data . |
| 14 | And now Dennis Gray has weighed in with a second version of his ‘ Life as a Climbing Tyke ’ — the first having been that marvellous tale of human bondage from 20 year ago , Rope Boy , or ‘ How I survived an apprenticeship with Joe Brown and started to love climbing ’ . |
| 15 | The period of time when acceptance becomes possible seems to link in with the first anniversary of events . |
| 16 | Tied in with the third exhibition of her work by London dealer David Gill who was responsible for her renaissance . |
| 17 | ‘ The hotel has been condemned and is to be pulled down within the next couple of days . ’ |
| 18 | Wednesday , 3–1 down from the first leg of this UEFA Cup tie , went about their work impressively . |
| 19 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |
| 20 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 21 | Right down from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the 1960s one can indeed construct a counter-grandadology to Pearson 's ‘ history of respectable fears ’ . |
| 22 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 23 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 24 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 25 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 26 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 27 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |
| 28 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 29 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
| 30 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |