Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [num] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course one of the Moderator 's copies will be returned to the centre together with the Moderator 's comment form . |
| 2 | Iran marked March 18 as a day of national mourning for the " massacre of the Iraqi people " and the " desecration " of the holy shrines in Najaf and Kerbala . |
| 3 | [ Gentleman 's Magazine , 1784 , pp. 238 , 315 , and 1808 , p. 92 ; G. D. Hobson , English Bindings 1490–1940 in the Library of J. R. Abbey , 1940 ; T. W. Hanson , ‘ Edwards of Halifax ’ , Book Handbook , vol. vi , 1948 ; Howard M. Nixon , Five Centuries of English Bookbinding , 1978 ; Carl J. Weber , Fore-edge Painting , 1966 . ] |
| 4 | Another method of classification takes only five occupational categories , which are used for census and other statistical purposes : the social classes 1–5 on the Registrar General 's Scale . |
| 5 | The wide-running Kildare Slippy , which also holds track records at Hall Green and Hackney , has been drawn in its favourite trap six for the final . |
| 6 | Two goals by Richard Tapper and another from Fenton Davies enabled Old Chigwellians to beat Old Etonians 3–1 in the final of the Arthur Dunn Cup at Motspur Park . |
| 7 | It was a brown leather one with a steel buckle . |
| 8 | We noticed in section 4.4 that , by way of contrast , higher-status Belfast speakers avoid both extreme front and extreme back realizations , as they converge around cardinal vowel 4 in the middle of the phonetic range . |
| 9 | We were ( in my own case ) encouraged to tackle British Standards 5750 in the middle of all this . |
| 10 | With Olympic silver medallist Mark Rowland injured and no other Briton having broken 8 mins 36 secs , Walker is the clear British number one in the event this summer , but he wants the security of a qualifying time before the Olympic trials meeting in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 . |
| 11 | ( This is despite the birth of our new sister title , the superb Fishkeeping Answers now the clear number two in the market more than doubling the sales of any other rival ) . |
| 12 | As it was tabled on 17 December , has the Leader of the House had time to reflect on early-day motion 424 in the name of a former Law Officer , a former Home Secretary , myself and 41 colleagues ? |
| 13 | NCR Corp will be announcing Top End 2.0 in the middle of next month , its next-generation transaction processor for mainframe-class on-line transaction processing applications in client/server environments . |
| 14 | He quoted the dismissive comment of the writer of the volume on British Painting 1530–1790 in the Pelican History of Art : ‘ To discuss the Sartorius tribe and such painters is no business of the historian of art , no matter how bitter the accusations of neglect are wont to be from those specialist writers who sometimes confuse the history of art with praising famous horses . ’ |
| 15 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 16 | Among those jobs classified as Social Class 1 by the Registrar General at the 1981 Census , only one in ten was held by women . |
| 17 | Its mortality record is not only worse than that of social class I by a factor of 3 but it is 42% worse than that of social class V ( table I ) . |
| 18 | In 1988 ( the last available figures ) , some 1,165,000 churchgoers ( measured by usual Sunday attendance ) put a total £166.7 million in the plate . |
| 19 | The black eyes shifted momentarily to take in the mortally wounded Angel Two on the Control Room floor , then back to Grant . |
| 20 | At each two-yearly election one-third of the Senate comes up for re-election . |
| 21 | The annual survey on the Norwegian economy published in early March 1991 by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) reported that inflation , then at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent , was " below the rates prevailing in most trading partner countries " , and that there was a current-account surplus for the third year in succession after several years of difficult adjustment following the mid-1980s fall in oil prices . |
| 22 | A major demonstration occurred in early March 1988 on the occasion of the Great Summons prayer festival ( Moinlam Qenmo ) . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman will know , for he takes a close interest in this matter , that from next year , there is an extra £2.7 billion for the health service in its next budget , in a few day 's time — up another 5 per cent. , including efficiency gains . |
| 24 | A series of arrests and arms discoveries took place in early December 1989 as a result of information provided by Francesco Marino Mannoia , a convict serving an eight-year sentence for drug trafficking . |
| 25 | A BRITISH Airways pilot killed himself after being blamed for nearly flying a packed Boeing 747 into a hotel . |
| 26 | English Nature , the statutory body which advises the government on nature conservation in England , has been allocated an additional £1.04 million for the protection and management of wildlife sites . |
| 27 | This last , which was published weekly from early February 1834 until the end of May , has become the best-known of Doherty 's publications and is the least personal of all of them . |
| 28 | A major scandal erupted in early November 1989 with the discovery that cattle on some 1,800 farms in the UK and the Netherlands had been affected by lead poisoning , following the illegal sale of rice bran which had been accidentally tainted with lead . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister , Adrien Sibomana , and several other Hutu ministers offered to resign in early November 1989 as a protest against an incident involving the humiliation of a Hutu officer cadet in the Tutsi-dominated Army . |
| 30 | These included ( i ) a 90-day moratorium on new federal regulations which could hamper growth , and a fundamental review of all existing regulations ; ( ii ) an instruction to all Cabinet departments and federal agencies " to speed up pro-growth expenditure " , which would infuse an extra $10,000 million into the economy in the next six months ; ( iii ) a change in the federal tax withholding schedules which would stimulate domestic demand by returning some $25,000 million to the economy over the next 12 months ; and ( iv ) a commitment to work with the Federal Reserve Board to hold down interest rates and inflation . |