Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximal effect during the four hour experiment occurred in the fourth hour after administration of cholera toxin ( Tables I-V ) . |
| 2 | The hammer blow came in the 62nd minute . |
| 3 | Blood loss started about the eighth day of infection when the immature adult has developed the toothed buccal capsule which enables it to grasp plugs of mucosa containing arterioles . |
| 4 | The peace process continued in a fourth round of bilateral negotiations in Washington last week . |
| 5 | The turning point came in the 64th minute , when winger Jacques Olivier burned off the challenge of Nigel Heslop , exchanged passes with Gerber and scored a superb try . |
| 6 | The turning point came in the second quarter , he said , but loss of confidence as a result of the exchange rate crisis hit UK recruitment in the fourth quarter , although it is now starting to grow again . |
| 7 | The turning point came in the 75th minute when McGrath brought down Walsh only for the resulting penalty by Lineker to be saved easily by Spink . |
| 8 | A similarly austere portrait style reappeared in the mid-third century AD during a period of prolonged crisis in the administration of the Roman Empire . |
| 9 | As Dr Berg has put it : " Certainly the home market grew in the eighteenth century , but its expansion was based on changing social relations and not on a national trend of rising living standards . " |
| 10 | The general election was held on 18 June , and election and examination fever coincided for the first time since 1945 . |
| 11 | This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year . |
| 12 | The reasons for the declines of mortality and fertility are still not agreed ; nor the relative impact on mortality decline of the conquest of smallpox , the agricultural revolution , or environmental improvement ( Woods and Hinde 1987 ) ; why infant mortality fell in the eighteenth century but not in the nineteenth ; economic versus cultural explanations for the decline in fertility . |
| 13 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 14 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
| 15 | For Venturi , an important development in art criticism came in the eighteenth century which saw the foundation of aesthetics and the rise of philosophies for which art was an indispensable ingredient . |
| 16 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 17 | Yesterday 's court hearing came in the seventh week of the bitter dispute which began as a strike in protest over lay-offs then led to the sacking of 340 workers . |
| 18 | All that is verging on the silly : as one who can remember Andy Pandy and the ravishing girl who read ‘ Picture Book ’ , the fact that daytime television arrived in the last six or seven years seems rather insignificant . |
| 19 | Control of local authority borrowing began in the nineteenth century when central government was suspicious of the new local authorities and their potential to borrow money they could not repay . |
| 20 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 21 | A steel door closed off the second section of tunnel and they could not open it . |
| 22 | His will , which mentions no immediate family , left bequests for the establishment of schools for boys and girls in Amesbury , where Rose 's Grammar School survived into the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | The pastor waited until the west door closed behind the last child , and then approached Elisabeth . |
| 24 | But the 11-year-old pointer was lucky that odds-on favourite Ocean Link fell at the first , bringing down another fancied runner Material Girl . |
| 25 | The pill swapping continued for the next couple of weeks , showing no difference in the population of Xenly . |
| 26 | For Hegedus one of the greatest distortions of Marxism was the ideology of centralized and hierarchical state management propounded during the first period of socialist development . |
| 27 | Your comment was made in a week when manufacturing output fell for the seventh successive quarter and unemployment rose for the 23rd successive month . |
| 28 | The right hon. Gentleman forgets that manufacturing output fell under the last Labour Government and has risen under this Government . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman should remember that manufacturing output fell under the last Labour Government and that it is up under this Government . |
| 30 | She was supported by seven of the eight parties which had agreed to form a coalition Cabinet , although the Centre Alliance withdrew at the last minute . |