Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced down one passage to no avail , then tried the next , just soon enough to catch the porter emerging from the third door along . |
| 2 | The interpretation put forward here is not fundamentally different from that offered by Jaynes when he suggested that a tendency to emit ( a fractional version of ) the response acquired in the first stage would serve as a mediating process in the second , and that the salience of the mediator would depend on the magnitude of the initial response of which it was a fraction . |
| 3 | If you put a spot of light right in the centre of this cell 's receptive field you get the response shown in the second column : when the spot goes on ( see stimulus trace at the bottom ) you get a burst of impulses , so it is called an ‘ on-centre unit ’ . |
| 4 | The opportunity afforded by a third term in office is thought to have induced a ‘ triumphalist ’ determination to effect even more remarkable and radical transformations in the social order than were brought about since it first took office in 1979 . |
| 5 | Many of the latter are the forms mentioned in the first paragraph of this section as running parallel to the coast . |
| 6 | Production and shipment has already begun , and the contracts extend through the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 7 | In the first round of voting 19 of the 28 seats were decided , with the remainder going to a second round ; 82 per cent of the 8,592-strong electorate went to the polls ( most of Andorra 's population of 60,000 being foreigners and not entitled to vote ) . |
| 8 | The taxable transfer allowance , paid in addition to the disturbance allowance , is made in two stages ; half is paid to the employee with the first month 's salary in the new position and the remainder paid with the twelfth month 's salary in the new position . |
| 9 | Theory 3 — That the West had been too lax in the post-war years and had blind faith in the hope that the unity achieved after the first World War would be re-kindled . |
| 10 | I slept in the suite named after the 13th Baron Willloughby who lived here in the 1770s . |
| 11 | Delaney moved forward , keeping to the side of the superstructure , intent on the stairway leading to the next deck , and finally the bridge . |
| 12 | Theoretically his presidency must end in 1852 , but it was already evident that the Prince hoped for a second term of office , to which end he began to organize a campaign to drum up sufficient popular support for this to become possible . |
| 13 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 14 | Focus on the battle to win the First Division title and the struggle to stay in the Second |
| 15 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 16 | After all , our licence fee got the programmes made in the first place |
| 17 | The first section examines the institutions established during the first half-century of British rule . |
| 18 | Noting that the award corresponded with the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas , it said that this " was not a coincidence [ but ] … it was not the only factor " in the selection . |
| 19 | The settlement price ( or the exchange delivery settlement price , EDSP ) is the trading price ( per 100 nominal ) for the futures contract on the last day of trading . |
| 20 | The transformations effected by the second Vatican Council of 1962–5 in liturgy , sacrament , scripture , and so on led to the accelerated decline of traditional rituals such as wakes and pilgrimages to local shrines . |
| 21 | The blow fell on the 7th Division and on Allenby 's cavalry , which connected Haig 's Corps with the 3rd Corps to its south . |
| 22 | Probably the most effective and most common scoring technique in karate is the gyaku-zuki , or reverse punch , which the beginner learns in the second week of his basic training , and provides a good illustration of the need constantly to return to practising the basics . |
| 23 | The winner came in the 64th minute thanks to a combination of fine attacking play from Jason Soloman and inept defending by Boro . |
| 24 | ‘ Once the Springboks tired , the tide turned in the second half . |
| 25 | But the tide turned in the second game of the second set when Graf finally broke serve on her fourth break point . |
| 26 | In general , the patterns established in the First Temple Period were maintained . |
| 27 | A second all-night session was not expected as the line-by-line examination of the measure resumed for the 18th day of its committee stage . |
| 28 | Or was that where all the money went in the first place ? |
| 29 | If a home does not meet the minimum standard , the owner will be able to claim back all the money spent within the first year after purchase on raising it to that level , through , for example , home insulation , up to the amount of stamp duty they paid when they bought the property ( up to the maximum of £1000 ) . |
| 30 | The concern for the future of the Deutschmark within the EEC erupted belatedly in the Bundestag in early October 1992 ; at the insistence of an all-party committee , the Parliament pressed for a second opportunity to ratify stage 3 of the Maastricht Treaty before the Deutschmark became irrevocably part of the Single Currency . |