Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [coord] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He detected a marked change in buyers ' tastes towards pieces dating from the latter part of the eighteenth century and away from seventeenth-century , Louis XIV and Regence work , traditional areas for major collectors . |
| 2 | Bath regained it with Fallon 's first try but just on half-time Smith kicked another goal when Clarke was penalised at a ruck . |
| 3 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |
| 4 | He 'd spoken to Pete twice , once on the first evening and again at breakfast . |
| 5 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 6 | Another problem is that the tests show practice effects ; that is , for the first day or so of testing , subjects ' performances improve greatly ( and so mask any daily rhythms ) as they are getting used to the tests and are developing their personal ways of tackling them . |
| 7 | Although mature horses may harbour a few adult worms , heavy burdens are usually confined to yearlings and to foals , which become infected from the first month or so of life , and infection is maintained largely by seasonal transmission between these groups of young animals . |
| 8 | This blanket term covers the ‘ blues ’ at one end of the spectrum ( affecting between 70 and 80 per cent of all women in the first week or so after birth ) to the post-puerperal psychosis which temporarily hospitalizes three in every thousand mothers . |
| 9 | During the oral phases , extending over the first year or so of life , his main concerns involve activities like sucking , swallowing and biting ; and the nature of his oral experiences during this period will have considerable repercussions in the long as well as the short term . |
| 10 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 11 | At this Council , on the last day and perhaps without premeditation , Urban pronounced two anathemas which were to have a delayed but decisive influence on Anselm 's later years . |
| 12 | Civil liberties have also been eroded in the last decade or more by government efforts to suppress media comment , criticism and reporting in cases such as the Spycatcher , Ponting and Tisdall affairs . |
| 13 | 1993 has started well with deliveries ahead of the same period last year and ahead of budget . |
| 14 | Jose Carreras has had some practice singing out of doors — he sang in the grounds of Castle Howard last year and also in front of a 15,000-strong audience in Bath . |