Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barnes and club-mate Ben Clarke were appearing for the Barbarians against Australia at Twickenham while their Bath colleagues were sinking 9–8 at Blundellsands to Second Division Waterloo in the third round on Saturday . |
| 2 | Arsenal lost Danish international Jensen with a hip injury and England defender Adams in the second half but still have no real excuses . |
| 3 | Pascal , Blaise ( 1623–1662 ) A French theologian and mathematician , Pascal is most famous for his unfinished Pensées ( Thoughts ) , in which , by means of brilliant , pungent remarks , he attempts a vindication of Christianity through a series of perceptive observations whose psychological insight and aphoristic style anticipate the approach of the brilliant atheist Nietzsche in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | A good English account of it was given by the Poet Chaucer in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 5 | This French breed , which produces high-fat milk , was probably not distinguished from other breeds of northwest France until the nineteenth century , including the Contentin type ( later absorbed by the Normandy breed ) , which probably also came to the islands , and the now-extinct brindled Isigny draught breed of Normandy , which was also a famous butter-maker but much larger than the Léon and with horns which curved forward and inward rather than outward and backward . |
| 6 | The near absence of true hoards ( deposits of coin or metalwork in the ground not associated with burial ) in early Anglo-Saxon England until the seventh century may be taken as an important indication both of the role of hoarding in other societies and of the economic organisation of this period . |
| 7 | The Beazer Homes League visitors have displayed a knack this season of stealing last-gasp cup match goals , and it was another 89th minute affair which helped check Cornard for the second time in two months . |
| 8 | I have been involved in local politics for several years and I am running in South Ward for the second time . |
| 9 | Portuguese missionaries brought them to East Africa from South America in the 15th century . |
| 10 | Perhaps even more destructive than these has been the effect of orchid collectors , particularly in South America in the last century . |
| 11 | It should be a happy account and I take Eubank to halt the smaller-framed Thornton by the eighth round . |
| 12 | Ridge rovers arriving in South Wales for the first time probably have firm plans to tackle the splendid routes in the Black Mountains and , of course , the classic escarpment topped by Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons . |
| 13 | Thought to be from the 365th Bomb Sqn of the 305th Bomb Group . |
| 14 | The only text of the whole legend which exists is that written by the Greek author Plutarch in the first century AD , De Iside et Osiride . |
| 15 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 16 | And later on writing to Timothy , the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen , he says , it is a trustworthy statement , deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came in to the world to save sinners . |
| 17 | In a further sign of improving links with black Africa , it was announced that during the weekend of de Klerk 's visit to Kenya , South African Airways flights were routed over west Africa for the first time for nearly 30 years , the government having secured overflight rights with Morocco , Mauritania , Mali and Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 18 | Dessie , Britain 's best loved race-horse , is being lined up for a sprint spectacular against our 100 metres king Christie in the next trial Sunday race meeting . |
| 19 | The veteran of European campaigns with Aberdeen and Manchester United revealed his concern at the rough stuff dished out to prolific marksman Chapman in the first leg a fortnight ago . |
| 20 | After discharging mother-of-four Jane on the sixth day of the Newcastle trial , Judge John Johnson told the other eleven jurors : ‘ It is an embarrassing position . |
| 21 | At Pembroke College was Edward Wynn , one of the kindest dons to grace Cambridge during the twentieth century , and another member of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd . |
| 22 | P. M. Roth for the third party . |
| 23 | A priest is there to be for us a specific and bodily reminder of the man Jesus at the Last Supper . |
| 24 | The construction of the temple of-Aphrodite in the first century BC must have required abundant material , and although it is plaus ible to assume that local stone-cutters did exist , more ambitious projects clearly demanded more sophisticated and skilled sculptors and architects . |
| 25 | Remember those heady days not so long ago when 800 journalists packed into the ballroom at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas to see King and Tyson before the disgraced champion beat up Razor Ruddock for the second time ? |
| 26 | And though both were gone by the close — Stewart to just about the only ball to misbehave badly all match — the balance of power remained unaltered , a fact emphasised by Lamb and nightwatchman Russell on the second morning . |
| 27 | It was mostly East Grinstead in the second half with Leman being denied by Thompson twice and new England sensation Mahmood Bhatti shooting wide twice when well placed . |
| 28 | Stocking knitting had been removing to the east Midlands from the last years of the preceding century . |
| 29 | Returning from a visit to East Africa in the first week of February , Chalker announced that the UK would send a further 20,000 tonnes of food , worth £4,000,000 ( US$7,800,000 ) , in response to an appeal from the UN World Food Programme . |
| 30 | He was a national hero , he had been Supreme Commander in South East Asia during the Second World War , the last Viceroy and first Governor General of India , first Sea Lord , and finally Chief of the Defence Staff . |