Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience for the BBC 's nine o'clock news doubled to 13m on the day war broke out , and that for ITN rose by a third . |
| 2 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 3 | Companies such as Caterham come under the second tier and have to comply with national approval rules based on EC legislation . |
| 4 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 5 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 6 | Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 . |
| 7 | In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases . |
| 8 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 9 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 10 | ( The Pentateuch or the Torah is the Law of Moses found in the first five books of the Old Testament . ) |
| 11 | Excitement mounted ; in her memoirs Princess Marie Louise quotes Sir Edwin Lutyens as saying , ‘ Let us devise and design for all time something which will enable future generations to see how a king and queen of England lived in the twentieth century , and what authors , artists and craftsmen of note there were during their reign . ’ |
| 12 | For example , McCullough cites the failure of Sibelius to compose for the last 20 years of his life as in part due to his discomfort at the rise of a genre of music with which he felt no affinity . |
| 13 | The US state of Louisiana defaulted on a nineteenth century loan and was still unwelcome to bond markets a century later . |
| 14 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 15 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | The only attempt to revive the Slav kingdom of Samo , which Ottokar of Bohemia made in the thirteenth century , was decisively crushed by the Holy Roman Emperor at the battle of Marchfeld ( 1278 ) . |
| 17 | The Yugoslavian authorities announced on Feb. 20 that Army units stationed in the province of Kosovo had for the first time been given specific orders to quell a renewed wave of unrest among ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 18 | But when the City of London emerged as the last centre of strength for the Whig opponents of royal policy at the beginning of the 1680s , it was asked by a writ of quo warranto to show that it was entitled to all the powers it had been exercising . |
| 19 | They had a bit of luck against Portsmouth starting with the first goal which spun off Symons but Chrissy Allen and his team mates worked hard and deserved everything they got … |
| 20 | They had a bit of luck against Portsmouth starting with the first goal which spun off Symons but Chrissy Allen and his team mates worked hard and deserved everything they got … |
| 21 | The raids against Norway continued through the next three years , 1942–44 , and were mounted in other theatres as more raiding parties were trained . |
| 22 | The planting of the woods above Halling continued into the 19th and early 20th century for woodcutters , as well as producing Bavins etc. for the lime and cement industry , planted young trees . |
| 23 | The cows are not as good for milk as the Aubrac or Salers : there was crossing with Durham Shorthorns in the eighteenth century to help milk yields from an essentially draught-and-meat animal but this was discarded when it was decided to concentrate on beef from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | At the decade 's start everything was gloom and doom , cutbacks the order of the day since in 1979 the number of commuters going into London dropped for the tenth successive year . |
| 25 | Iro squandered a couple of chances close to the line at the start of the second half , but held on to Clark 's pass to make room for Edwards to score in the 50th minute , Phil Bancroft adding a touchline goal off the post . |
| 26 | He plans to stay in Sheffield to compete on the first day of the UK Championships today then concentrate on training , his Olympic place assured without having to jump in the trials in Birmingham on June 27–28 , in which he 'll confine himself to an outing in the 100 metres . |
| 27 | The first peacetime , and civil , air disaster in Ayrshire occurred on the 20th October , 1948 . |
| 28 | The Central Statistical Office said outstanding credit in February rose for the first time in six months . |
| 29 | The story in Scotland begins with the first Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh where , in 1710 , noble ladies waited patiently to dance a minuet with their partners — one couple at a time to accommodate the huge dresses . |
| 30 | The world champions , having wiped Ireland off their pitch , today settle down in Swansea preparing for the second leg of their tour which culminates in the 16th international between the nations at Cardiff Arms Park on November 21 . |