Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data from children whose ears contained fluid at the final assessment or at the last assessment before they were lost to follow up were excluded . |
| 2 | Potted game is most delicious and delicate with hot thin crisp brown toast for tea or as a first course at lunch . |
| 3 | But their strength as vehicles for practice or as a first amp for a budding shredder would be difficult to challenge . |
| 4 | We had about six or seven weeks to finish the album and by the last week , I did n't have a vocal on two of the tracks and this is where it actually began — David writing on microphone . |
| 5 | So our , our cost figures for the project will include the simulator but in the next phase of the programme . |
| 6 | Digital Equipment Corp has announced that it will offer a new hub backplane , code-named One Hub , in early 1993 , plugging the gap at the high end of the DEChub 90 range and for the first time offering Ethernet , Token Ring , and the Fibre Distributed Data Interface , FDDI , at first , and Asynchronous Transfer Mode high-speed networking technology , when it becomes available , in one product . |
| 7 | It is a language that needs a large memory capacity and for the first time there were machines available to use it . |
| 8 | Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite . |
| 9 | Karnival , another high profile area of the Students ' Union , concentrates its work on fund raising and in the last year raised over £100,000 for various charities . |
| 10 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 11 | Seven minutes into the second period Gavin Currie got his name on the score sheet with Atkins the provider and in the 47th minute Mervyn Cooke scored from the edge of the circle . |
| 12 | Susan followed her down a short , dark passage and into the second sitting-room , which , ugly and over-full as it was , looked comparatively cheerful with its blazing fire . |
| 13 | The Festival of Britain , 1951 , was designed to tell the world that we were back in business , full of vim and zip , bursting with new ideas , new teeth in the new bulldog , through another war with honour and into the second half of the twentieth century with eagerness and confidence . |
| 14 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 15 | Captain Ally McKay grabbed a try in the first half and in the second half a brace of tries from his wing forward partner Watson secured the winning margin . |
| 16 | As they come to the final fence Second Schedule being pressed by Ebony Jane and Bishops Hall on the nearside and over the last Second Schedule and Bishops Hall on the nearside , Ebony Jane in third , in fourth place is Joe White and racing into the closing stages it 's Second Schedule with Bishops Hall on the nearside Graham Bradley again as they go to the line , Bishops Hall wins it for Harry , Second Schedule is second , Joe White is third , Ebony Jane four . |
| 17 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 18 | Their alternative name , Vlah ( Wallachian ) , suggests their origin but by the nineteenth century most had become Hellenised , speaking and acting as intermediaries between the Greek clergy and their Serbian parish priests . |
| 19 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 20 | Samways made a vital interception to snatch the ball off Taylor 's foot and in the 71st minute Thomas hammered the ball inches wide from a Connolly pass cleverly dummied by substitute Steve Watkin . |
| 21 | That slowed things down a bit and on the second day England made some progress through the wickets . |
| 22 | This takeaway sermonette is usually tucked away after the opening prayer and before the second hymn , during which the children leave church ( in the months when Sunday School is in session ) . |
| 23 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
| 24 | Return back towards the airport , driving under Terminal Building and across the first roundabout . |
| 25 | Novas turned around 27–26 in front , but met a more solid defence and by the ninth minute had scored only five to Arena 's 15 . |
| 26 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 27 | If records are stored in the next available position in the prime data area — the consecutive spill method — but a link field is provided from the home record or from the last synonym , this avoids unnecessary head movements and cuts down the search time required for the consecutive spill techniques . |
| 28 | It is important however to dispel the ‘ big push ’ theory of change — that all we need is one last great effort to climb the next hill or round the next corner and we shall then arrive in the promised land of milk , honey and stability ! |
| 29 | In many of the orchids , the bees slip and fall through the flower or into a trap , for example in Stanhopea candida in Amazonia , pollination is by Eulaema moscaryi , which ‘ falls through ’ the flower after collecting the scent ; in so doing , it brushes against the pollinia and in the next flower these are lodged in the stigmatic cavity . |
| 30 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |