Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For linguists , the Celtic family of languages is extremely interesting , while , on the literary side , medievalists are attracted by the early sagas , heroic poetry and Arthurian material ; and in the Modern period , Gaelic poetry of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and that of the twentieth century Renaissance poets are especially popular . |
| 2 | Now , the weekend after each international , the team goes into an Edinburgh hotel to look at videos of individual performances and those of the next opponents . |
| 3 | The company also hopes to add another low-end workstation in two months and one in the third quarter using the much hyped Viking superscalar chip ( UX No 383 ) from Texas Instruments Inc . |
| 4 | ‘ Paul and I have had our ups and downs , good days and bad in the last year , but I feel I must share tonight with him . |
| 5 | The cDNA clones KOX2 , KOX31 and KOX21 have been completely sequenced : KOX2 maintains an open reading frame throughout its length ( 1136 bp ) which includes four complete ZNF domains and half of a fifth , represented in the 3' half of the cDNA ( Figure 2a ) ; KOX31 ( 972 bp ) contains an open reading frame from its 5' end which encodes five ZNF domains before terminating ( Figure 2b ) ; KOX21 ( 1007 bp ) also contains an open reading frame from its 5' end which encodes eight ZNF domains before terminating ( accession number X69115 ) . |
| 6 | All but two people were accepted for training as disabled people , the others acquiring their impairments during training ; 10 people had trained within the last five years and 14 within the last 10 years . |
| 7 | The differences between today 's weapons and those of the second world war are not unlike those between a 1940s gramophone and a compact-disc player , armed with a laser and stuffed with chips . |
| 8 | Two birdies in his first three holes and another at the sixth gave him a flying start but it was not all so straightforward . |
| 9 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 10 | Much has been made of the ‘ feminine shape ’ of My Bloody Valentine 's music , and this also extends to the ‘ wombadelia ’ of Spiritualized and the neutered fumblings of the shoe-gazers and much of the second division of indie rock . |
| 11 | The proliferation index was slightly lower with BrdU than with PCNA between the 20th and 42nd percentiles and higher between the 60th and the 80th percentile . |
| 12 | Of the eleven who won the Cup for Manchester United in 1948 , most of whom were internationals and all in the first rank of senior professionals , five went into football coaching and management , three ran newsagents ' shops ( customers presumably enjoyed discussing the sports headlines with men who had once made them ) , two worked in factories , and one became a night-telephonist . |
| 13 | The Labour amendment was to explore ways in which resources can be provided to fund and enhance refurbishment programme without closures and that for the next two years the additional necessary funding be sourced from housing benefit income and income from the sale of East Midlands Airport and from other capital receipts . |
| 14 | As an eminent American economist once remarked , ‘ The Stock Market has anticipated 10 out of the last 3 recessions and 12 of the last 3 recoveries ! ’ |