Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 A piece of magic from Collins settled the issue when he won a tackle and looped over a high pass for Chris Higgs to race clear for the Police 's fourth try .
2 The agreement went a long way towards meeting demands of organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature and Greenpeace , which had staged lengthy public campaigns in favour of preserving the Antarctic as the planet 's last great wilderness .
3 Following the election , Hau indicated his intention to resign as Premier before the Yuan 's first session in February 1993 .
4 The tie is sponsored by Carmen Furniture , appropriate to the musical chairs likely for the Scots ' second outing and key to qualification for the knock-out stages — against Canada — where the intention is that Tony Stanger and Carl Hogg will play .
5 Polonnaruwa 's elaborate rock carvings of Buddha , the Royal Palace ruins and the Lotus Bath are relics worthy of the country 's second capital .
6 While Charles made a speech to young Korean businessmen on the environment — potentially embarrassing in the world 's third most polluted city — Diana opened an exhibition planned to boost British trade .
7 He was involved in the Polytechnic 's first CNAA Degree Course , Science with Industrial Studies , and is nowadays particularly concerned in the BA in Business Studies .
8 Half buried in the dirty straw , beside a bone crawling with flies , lay the phrenology book , undisturbed since the Collector 's last visit .
9 Xerox ( the ‘ X ’ in Xsoft ) was the company responsible for the world 's first GUI ( it says here ) , so you might think they know a thing or two about how to dress up Windows …
10 However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place .
11 What this power has meant to the scientific and industrial users involved in the ECSP was made apparent during the project 's second annual seminar last month .
12 Myeloski had settled back , watching hawk-like for the man 's next move .
13 The father of these children are one or other of the mother 's first two husbands , the first of whom ( from whom she was divorced in 1976 ) has played no part in their lives at least since 1980 , and the second of whom committed suicide in 1984 .
14 However , there was nothing over-scientific about the Commander 's first beach reconnaissance .
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