Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fourteenth century the village played a major role in the wool trade . |
| 2 | In the fourteenth century the Cloud-author makes the same point quite explicitly : The Cloud-author also provides an acute analysis of the way these terms interact in a continuum of activity both external and internal which leads finally to the possibility of the gift of contemplation . |
| 3 | At second level the department offers a series of five half-courses , which students can combine in various ways to make up a full course . |
| 4 | In the second example the writer blends the quotations in smoothly ; the relevance of the quotation is more explicitly stated . |
| 5 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 6 | The nineteenth-century agricultural historian Youatt calculated that in the second half of the eighteenth century every Londoner purchased an average of half a pound of meat a day — more than twice as much as the average in Paris or Brussels . |
| 7 | By the eighteenth century the trade had the total monopoly on the provision of coffins . |
| 8 | On the fourth floor the visitor follows the Nazi rise to power all the way to the first intimations of total death . |
| 9 | In the first case the owner retains the existing use value of his land and is worse off only in comparison with owners who have been fortunate in owning land on which development is permitted and who can therefore realise a capital gain . |
| 10 | In the first instance the team converted an old horse dray , by removing the shafts and front wheels and fitting an inclined ramp coupling to the turntable , to carry the front end of the trailer : for uncoupling , a pair of manually operated folding legs were provided . |
| 11 | In the first session the group chose the topic of hospitals in the future . |
| 12 | On a fifth occasion the appellant approached a woman who was walking to work , grabbed her breast , but walked off when she pulled away . |
| 13 | For companies seeking to develop an existing export market , or to examine a new one at first hand the IDB organises a series of trade missions to a wide variety of locations including Europe , Scandinavia , the Americas and the Far East . |
| 14 | Compound nouns in which the second element denotes an agent or an action may have for their first element a noun denoting the object of the action : housekeeper , housekeeping . |
| 15 | For the first time a sensation pierced the numbness and it caused Joe 's body to jerk and send a message to his brain that created the desire to shout , ‘ Do n't call me that , because I 'm not a sir . |
| 16 | The recent publication of all known speeches and writings of Hitler between 1919 and 1924 provides for the first time an opportunity to observe the self-image profiled in his public statements . |
| 17 | For the first time the race sees a husband and wife pairing in Yvonne and Barry Holloway from Lymington in Hampshire . |
| 18 | The first time the music stops every man gives his right shoe to his partner . |
| 19 | Seán Mac Stíofáin indicates that the first time the leadership discussed the civil rights movement was when |
| 20 | For the first time the house seemed a frail defence against all that beat around it . |
| 21 | Despite relegation to the Third Division the club kept a playing staff of thirty-eight , twenty-five of whom came from the Barnsley area and were almost all miners or the sons of miners . |
| 22 | At the last moment the hare sensed the danger and bounded off into the undergrowth . |
| 23 | On the last day the instructor held a test , and like the others Tim passed , but he felt that they all would have passed anyway , that the man was there to sell the machine and that no one would be allowed to fail in case they did n't recommend it . |
| 24 | On the third day the group had a bonus . |
| 25 | LAST October The Economist published a study of John Major 's chances of holding on to his majority for a full five-year parliament . |
| 26 | The next day the monk organized a procession with drummers and with the aid of a temple priest ( kapurala ) appealed to the god of a nearby shrine to take revenge on the robbers by killing them . |
| 27 | The next day the government declared a curfew from 9 p.m to 4 a.m. , as sporadic rioting and shooting continued . |
| 28 | Many a tear was shed that night , and after the minute 's silence at the beginning of the next day the play had an unreal feel to it . |
| 29 | In fact , in the last quarter the shop made a net loss . |
| 30 | Last night a detective hunting the killers said : ‘ They were like sharks , once they tasted blood , they could n't stop . |