Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 It 's now available for only seven shows out of twenty seven in the next programme and only on the first night of each show and only at a cost of two pounds and these are the audience of tomorrow as I wrote to you Mr you neglect these people at your peril why 've you changed the scheme ?
2 She smiled at her stepchild and then for the last time dug her long finger sharply in Artemis 's shoulder , but Artemis did n't flinch .
3 They were standing side by side and ahead of the third figure , who was positioned directly behind them .
4 It 's now quite sterile yet still manages to be immensely variable — to such a degree that even in the 18th century , gardeners thought all crocuses might simply be variants of it .
5 The approach of the county council is based on certain principles , first of all it reflects the decision of the Secretary of State on the originally approved structure plan and particularly on the first alteration to the structure plans er in nineteen er eighty seven .
6 Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March
7 Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March
8 The yarn passes in front of the needle hook and on to the next needle which will make a knit stitch .
9 A man short , the Fourth Division side held their more illustrious opponents at bay with no great difficulty until midway through the first half , and the crowds had fallen into an apprehensive silence when Drinkell revived their spirits .
10 Nothing is known of his education or early years beyond the fact that from 1815 to 1817 he served as an ensign in the 27th Foot and subsequently in the 91st Foot , from which he was obliged to retire on account of ill health in 1821 .
11 In his will Barclay also remembered numerous nephews and cousins , some of whose descendants were active in his bank and brewery until well into the twentieth century .
12 I Novice BHS Event my 16hh mare and sometimes over the last two seasons , these Events have taken place over very hard ground .
13 ‘ The gun stayed in the pocket of your jacket in the Green Room until well into the second act .
14 Their thirteen examples are still flying safely and reliably and at an operating profit , and unless and until a new design is embarked upon ( undoubtedly requiring massive joint international investment ) then Concorde will almost certainly be the only way civilian passengers can travel at twice the speed of sound until well into the next century .
15 The UK 's growing stockpile of plutonium is being stored in preparation for the development of a commercial fast breeder which is unlikely to take place until well into the next century , if at all .
16 For much of the period and up to the First World War , the targets of the largest movements of national liberation were the two great empires of Eastern and Central Europe — that of the Romanovs in the Russias and of the Habsburgs in Austro-Hungary .
17 In Australia , only 1,600 Britons have registered even though two million retain British citizenship and up to a third are thought to qualify under the 20-year rule .
18 The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division .
19 Jack 's full-back partner was ‘ Dusty ’ Rhodes , while behind them was the fabulous Jack Alderson and these three heroes played an amazing sequence of exactly 100 consecutive matches together ( including cup-ties and friendlies ) helping the Palace into the Football League in the process and then into the 2nd Division as the first champions of the newly formed 3rd Division in 1920–21 .
20 She dashed clear of the control room and on to the second half of the observation gallery , thirty metres above the main executive transporter bay .
21 During the next ten days negotiations and discussions went on , in some of which I was the messenger for Sir Hubert , particularly in the efforts to get U Saw and U Ba Maw into the Council , successful in the first case but not in the second .
22 Thus , in the first case but not in the second , the adjective is non-restrictive .
23 Does he remember a shadowed evening in his hotel room a day or so after the third Joe Frazier fight , moving to the window , his body still on fire from the assault ?
24 Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls .
25 The Arts : High art and on to the next disc
26 And you 'll find for half the pack it 's one a day and then for the second half of the pack it 's two a day .
27 In eastern Europe organised ostentation of this kind remained important on occasion until late in the eighteenth century , well after it had ceased to have much significance in the west .
28 My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains .
29 Right again on M completing the four sides of a small square and right into the first leg of the alley again .
30 ‘ Stair has his spyes in every quarter and even at the first posts on the several roads , ’ complained one irate conspirator , but often their work was easy for , as Bolingbroke observed , the most secret plans were a subject of gossip ‘ among women over their tea ’ .
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