Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 2 | However , Soviet trade with the West expanded rapidly in the first half of 1989 , showing a 9 per cent growth in volume , while imports grew by about 11 per cent . |
| 3 | From this , a lane goes forward to the last habitation , Dorusduain , with a parking space midway . |
| 4 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 5 | Dr Richard Neilman of the Nazelden Foundation in Minneapolis identifies the following eight characteristics : The sufferer thinks frequently of the next opportunity for use or may make specific resolutions not to use . |
| 6 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 7 | Coleraine started brightly with Cook and Brian Donaghy both going close in the opening three minutes , but the Crues settled quickly and were presented with a golden opportunity to go ahead in the 12th minute . |
| 8 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 9 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 10 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 11 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 12 | That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being . |
| 13 | Although officials remain resolutely silent , there is a widespread belief that the British Government will authorise the colony 's administration to go ahead with the first batch of mandatory repatriations this week . |
| 14 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 15 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 16 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 17 | A jury found that Mr McCaffrey had forced open the doors of the lift and squeezed through a narrow 11in gap in a bid to jump down to the third floor landing . |
| 18 | It was an old concrete pillbox built just before the last war to house a gun covering the firth , and it stuck in the sand like a big grey tooth . |
| 19 | The Association meets regularly on the first Friday of each month , at the RE Centre , when mass is said by our chaplain , Fr. |
| 20 | Comparing the ‘ Charlie Parker Story ’ directly with Vogue 's 14-track ‘ Original Bird ’ release ( and in effect listening critically for the first time ) , I found the Denon ‘ sound recovery ’ system somewhat inconsistent in places . |
| 21 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 22 | The wind dropped gradually over the next 20 minutes . |
| 23 | It is only in the third- and fourth-session documents that this is to be found , and increasingly frequently , as , for instance , in chapter 13 of Lumen Gentium or in chapter 3 of the Decree on Missionary Activity , entitled ‘ Particular Churches ’ — a chapter written largely in the fourth session and one of the Council 's most mature texts . |
| 24 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |
| 25 | The simple end-product arrives only at the fifth attempt . |
| 26 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 27 | To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so . |
| 28 | The action belonged exclusively to the second half with two goals packed into the first 100 seconds of the period . |
| 29 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 30 | The North Korean delegation walked out of the eighth round of normalization talks with Japan , held on Nov. 5 in the Chinese capital Beijing . |