Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 SEVERAL thousand hard-liners demonstrated yesterday outside the Russian parliament building to mark the second anniversary of the August 1991 coup and demand the resignation of President Boris Yeltsin .
2 The Alt Park club reached the fifth round last season before bowing out to Sudbury Town , and Max Thompson 's men will feel they can open this season 's Wembley trail with a win against an Arnold side in the Supreme Division of the Central Midlands League .
3 It was not a simple matter of carrying out fieldwork , thinking about the results , publishing them , and waiting for peer review to ensure the next research grant .
4 Students who undertake the four-year sandwich course spend the third year in industrial placement .
5 A Coalport collector 's plate has been presented to a historic Air Force squadron to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most daring air raids of all time .
6 The leading positions in the four divisions of the Bootle Snooker League after six weeks of the new season see Liverpool Billiards and Snooker Club leading the first division with 24 points from Corals ( 22 ) and Corals B team ( Bootle ) on 18 from four completed matches .
7 Whether the startling but short-lived explosion of punk rock represented the first sign of a new situational fracture ( new production methods ; ‘ outrageous ’ music ; independent operations ) , or the last twitch of the moment of ‘ pop culture ’ ( a rerun of rock 'n' roll do-it-yourself amateurism ) , or a less organic , conjunctural tremor ( like hip hop , ‘ charity rock ’ , Bruce Springsteen , Billy Bragg and many more ) is difficult to say .
8 Your listening to the Fox Report ; sport , and last night , Oxford United Football Club won the first leg of their second round clash with Port Vale in the Rumbelows League Cup .
9 Hambro Countrywide 's shares soared 7p to 36p on Hill 's bullish comments , boosting its market value by nearly 25% , as the stock market savoured the first piece of good news about housing for a long time .
10 An even more marked hiatus in the occupation sequence was recorded in the limited excavations in Heave Acre , alongside the Dorchester road , where traces of Flavian activity were overlain by a silt accumulation spanning the second century at least .
11 With Granby Village conveniently situated in the City centre close to shops and local amenities , it provided an ideal start for a shopping spree to spend the first part of the prize — £100 in cash .
12 the player takes the first card and looks at it , if it is a question card ask the next player , one of the two questions
13 The home team dominated the first half , although both defences looked solid .
14 Dependency theorists , therefore , were still trying to answer the question that had troubled Marxists since the turn of the century , namely ‘ can capitalism develop the Third World ? ’
15 He loves nothing more than slaving over a hot work bench to extract the last 0.5bhp needed to win his rider a world title , but as Yamaha 's GP technical co-ordinator last year he did n't get that chance .
16 The manservant dropped to one knee , brought the crossbow up , again the death-bearing click , and the whirring crossbow bolt caught the second assassin just before he slipped into the darkness .
17 Also it would be very wasteful of pump power and , depending where the transfer pipe entered the second filter/filter chamber , would not necessarily give you the oxygenation you wish for .
18 The peace treaty ending the First World War remained unsigned by Germany six months after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918 .
19 Ricardo 's 12-litre test unit approaches the next hurdle : US Federal 1994 emission standards .
20 On Feb. 25 the South Korean government announced that the authorization granted to the Daewoo conglomerate to become the first South Korean group to invest directly in the North had been suspended .
21 This helps to pace the dialogue , model turn-taking , and give the child time to organize the next utterance .
22 Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Home Office received the first application from Oxfordshire only last week , on 5 December ?
23 Displaced first from the North East/South West corridor and East Coast services , they had largely disappeared from their traditional Midland main line haunts by the mid-1980s , and the arrival of Class 156 Sprinter DMUs displaced the last survivors from Trans-Pennine workings in the summer of 1988 .
24 BISHOP KONSTANT donned a hard hat on a building site to cut the first turf for a new £1.2 million hall of residence at Trinity and All Saints , Horsforth , a College of the University of Leeds .
25 At the same time it is bringing a new generation of management into the MB Group boardroom to mastermind the next phase of the company 's expansion .
26 THE Alvaston Hall has a superb leisure complex offering the last word in relaxation with sauna , jacuzzi , swimming pool and tennis courts .
27 Does he recall that he said that if the business community took the first step he and the police would give it whatever support and back-up it needed ?
28 Fourteen healthy adult subjects then collected urine specimens before and within an hour after their normal breakfast , to assess the fall in urine acid output accompanying the first meal of the day .
29 If the Common Desktop Environment clears the first hurdle , other ideas for it include moving desktop icons between distributed systems using an object request broker .
30 A planned remembrance reunion to mark the 50th anniversary of the low-level raid on the Ploesti oilfields in Romania in August 1943 has interested R G Crick of Welling , Kent .
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