Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OLDHAM boss Joe Royle is backing his old Norwich City pals to stay the course and pull off the first Premier League title . |
| 2 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 3 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 4 | The Hong Kong authorities had carried out the first involuntary repatriation operation on Dec. 12 , 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] . |
| 5 | The surgeons in Utah who carried out the first artificial heart operation are still waiting to see how their patient manages before carrying out any more operations . |
| 6 | He brought out the first published Ordnance Survey map , An Entirely New & Accurate Survey of the County of Kent ( 1801 ) . |