Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second attempt was also a failure , this time after 257km . |
| 2 | Wright 's magnificent second goal was just the icing on the cake before a near 30,000 crowd , and proves that they will certainly be in with a shout when the title race really hots up . |
| 3 | Thus we note that the recoil against the I in the second quatrain was merely a ploy , resulting in an even more bitter attack on the Thou . |
| 4 | The eighteenth century was thus a period of slow evolution rather than radical change in military affairs . |
| 5 | Indeed , in insurance the eighteenth century was generally a period of establishment rather than of rapid growth . |
| 6 | That general 's position was parlous ; for with the two army corps withdrawn from the Western Front , the German Eighth Army was now a force of 17 divisions . |
| 7 | At dinner we were offered a choice of menu and the first course was often a buffet with the main course served by waiters . |
| 8 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 9 | point out that this change in procedure will tend to equalize the associative statutes of the two contexts and suggest that the context-specificity they observed in their first experiment was solely a result of their failure to equalize the two contexts in this respect . |
| 10 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 11 | The first edition was essentially the work of one man and was published by the H W Wilson Company . |
| 12 | Only when Graham begrudgingly replaced the ineffective David Hillier with substitute Anders Limpar in the 67th minute was there a hint that Arsenal might create something . |
| 13 | The first volume was clearly a success , attracting almost 600 subscribers , among them the Dukes of Bridgewater and Leeds , the Earls of Chesterfield , Arran , Gainsborough , Granville , and Pomfret , the Bishop of Gloucester , and many persons bearing lesser titles . |
| 14 | The first goal was definitely the killer , because after that it felt like we were carrying a one-ton weight up a down escalator . |
| 15 | But , of course , the late nineteenth century was also an era of free trade . |
| 16 | The nineteenth century was also the era of the Great City , sucking in population from the countryside to staff factories , shops , and homes . |
| 17 | Frankly , that old adage about only being as good as your last picture was totally the attitude , I 'm afraid . |
| 18 | That dress you were wearing last night was quite a disguise . ’ |
| 19 | Last night was really the night I must value — the night when I was aware of all the gifts Amantani has borne me . |
| 20 | The train was slow and the next stop was nearly an hour away . |
| 21 | Southerners say , ‘ When two people fight , the third rejoices , ’ and that third man was usually a lawyer . |
| 22 | The last date was nearly a year ago . |
| 23 | For one school of distinguished late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historians , led by Luchaire , the twelfth century was essentially the century of the communes — those sworn associations of burghers who , spurred by economic change , challenged with violence the feudal ordering of society , and brought about a new world . |
| 24 | BELOW : Lovedays Mill at Painswick during the 18th century was both a fulling and grist mill . |