Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you use a pattern such as a basic 1x1 pattern ( that 's one hole punched , one hole blank , all across the card and alternating on the next row ) the resulting fabric has very short floats , not floats at all really ( swatch 6 ) . |
| 2 | The obvious one is by a chemical message leaving one cell and diffusing to the next — rather like speaking . |
| 3 | The BNSA identified maintenance and planning as the next major areas for improvement and SNL , because of their relevant experience , have been asked to lead the advice . |
| 4 | There are burial chambers and standing stones from the Bronze Age , Iron Age forts , and tramways from mining and quarrying in the last century . |
| 5 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 6 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 7 | You want prayer and fasting from the sixth form down to get anywhere — ’ |
| 8 | If learning to read is regarded as a continual process of making more and more sense of written language , advancing with every reading experience and beginning with the first insight that print is meaningful , then it will be seen that there can never be anything specific for a child to be ready for … . |
| 9 | The multinationals have moved to other countries because of the civil war and according to the last report , in May 1983 , there were only four factories still operating in the multinational industrial parks . |
| 10 | Last night , she said she would be taking a play to the Edinburgh Festival and directing for the first time . |
| 11 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 12 | The more tidy minded among us find it more convenient to think of the Edwardian Era as starting on the 1st January 1900 , when his mother was still obviously , if obscurely , on the throne . |
| 13 | This is also the first thing we can tell about a person when meeting for the first time . |
| 14 | In sharp contrast , Art of the Persian Courts : Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection by Abodala Soudavar gives a survey of Iranian and Persian manuscript painting , calligraphy and drawing from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries ( £55 ) . |
| 15 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 16 | The investigator is now extending the system to include divorce and illegitimacy and reaching beyond the second to further kinship degrees , such as great-grandchildren and great-grandparents now becoming common . |
| 17 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 18 | Bregawn swept over the third fence from home and made his way into the straight , Pursued by Captain John ( who had lost ground when blundering at the third last ) , Wayward Lad and Silver Buck . |
| 19 | He lost his first-team place and then broke a finger when fielding for the 2nd XI . |
| 20 | Avoid rigorous vacuuming and shampooing during the first few weeks after your new carpet has been fitted . |
| 21 | I sat with one eye on the clock , waiting my turn and listening to the twenty-fifth rendering of ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |
| 23 | Using equations ( 6.9 ) and ( 6. 10 ) the required Poisson values can be calculated very rapidly ; they are particularly suited to a pocket calculator , as the starting value can be calculated and then modified by multiplying the contents of the calculator by the packing density and dividing by the next value of ‘ x ’ : 1 when the calculator holds p(0) , 2 when it holds p(1) and so on . |
| 24 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 25 | What emerges is a kind of fundamentalist dynastic priesthood associated with the principle of a Davidic Messiah and extending from the second century B.C. through the period covered by the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 26 | The first laugh of the evening came with the phrase ‘ non-aligned countries like Nato ’ ; the second with the observation that killing for the first time is ‘ like sex ’ : Darke 's audience of true believers was easily pleased . |
| 27 | Finally he spent an hour from 1630 to 1730 in his office finishing off his paperwork and checking on the next day 's programme . |