Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRESTWICK 's David Gourlay , jun , the first Scot in action in yesterday 's opening day of the £140,000 Midland Bank World Indoor Championship , survived an off-green setback before moving through to the second round with a three sets to one win over past UK champion Stephen Rees . |
| 2 | The second priority for a systematic communications programme is to provide all relevant information to the employee about his job such as : skills , resources and how flexible he can be ; factors affecting performance ( limits of responsibility , work targets ) ; factors affecting the environment of the job ; changes in any of these . |
| 3 | There have been major rebellions against the imposition of charges for eye and dental tests , for an amendment to grade the poll tax according to ability to pay , and for the second reading of a private members ' bill to liberalize the Official Secrets Act . |
| 4 | I was there forty years , right , I 've seen every accident on that bend , I 've had my house as a first aid post a dozen times , until we did something in this committee to sort that corner out |
| 5 | The first priority for a systematic communications programme is to meet the employee 's personal need for information directly relevant to himself such as : the payments system ; hours and conditions ; status and boss ( who gives me orders , who are my subordinates ) ; amenities and fringe benefits ; termination arrangements ( what justice do I get ) ; leave ; discipline ( penalties , rules , grievance procedure ) ; union and key officials ; prospects ; changes affecting him ( new boss , working conditions , rearrangement of the plant , office accommodation ) etc . |
| 6 | It was the first conviction of a white police officer on charges arising from such killings . |
| 7 | A crackdown on speeding and aggressive driving will be the first step in a one-year-long police campaign to cut the number of deaths and accidents on motorways . |
| 8 | In just under two hours time Oxford Prison will close down , leaving the city without a gaol for the first time in a thousand years . |
| 9 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 10 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 11 | One of Oxford 's two remaining women-only colleges has tonight decided to admit men for the first time in a hundred years . |
| 12 | Come the end , the trio are hunched over their instruments , thrashing out ‘ Mainly Mornings ’ and ‘ Hammer ’ like men who are having a lot of bloody good fun , actually , and even a BO beast in a ZZ Top crew T-shirt is forced to shift his Neanderthal parameters into the 20th Century for a few minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm so sad that I missed you , ’ Lubor Ondrus said soulfully , explaining , ‘ I returned only last evening from a few days ’ holiday . ’ |
| 14 | Magherafelt confirmed their third place with a maximum points 5–0 ( 20–5 ) win over the Boat Club . |
| 15 | However , it is still not possible to be certain about world sea levels before the last quarter of a million years . |
| 16 | RCO had tried to brighten up their corner of the third floor with a few gallons of inexpensive paint . |
| 17 | Thieves broke into the Harper and Harper store in Northgate , at the weekend and made off with almost £1,500 worth of equipment the third break-in in a few months . |
| 18 | Tritsis 's career as a stormy petrel continued when he was given the education portfolio in 1987 — he was unshipped the next year by a protracted teachers ' strike . |