Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Flockmasters had to forget the last decade when seat-of-the-pants management brought reasonable returns from a supported market .
2 Anterior and posterior images of 30 seconds durations were recorded at 15 minute intervals starting immediately after the subjects had ingested the first course of the meal .
3 But Rovers did claim the next goal to make it 2-1 .
4 But after the All Blacks had won the Second Test 59–6 Mains was rather more relaxed and in fact exuded some confidence about the prospects of his new-look team .
5 Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped .
6 Celebrations planned to commemorate the 30th anniversary of independence , on July 5 , were cancelled .
7 Then it had been Roman revenge against an uprising — but the seizure and detonation of an Israeli atomic bomb by terrorists had made a second holocaust of the land that once was known as Holy .
8 Ants had to play the first quarter one player short and did well to hold the Saracens to 9–9 .
9 Many no doubt sincere Christians continued to celebrate the first day of January in defiance of their clergy 's disapproval , or liked to greet the rising sun from the steps into the church , and , most of all , to attend the great festive games and shows .
10 The drama was not quite over because all three players managed to hit the last green in two shots , and Harley , by dint of a nice kick forward when the ball pitched , was no more than six feet from the hole .
11 Fortunately , one of her friends had done a first aid course so he put her in the recovery position and cleared her airways , then gave her the kiss of life .
12 Governors said reopening the sixth form would increase parental choice and win back pupils from independent schools .
13 Hence the value of meals sacrificed to make the last film is also the marginal utility of the last meal times the number of meals sacrificed .
14 And equilibrium in the film industry , by equating the marginal utility of films to the marginal utility of the meals sacrificed to make the last film , guarantees that society 's resources are allocated efficiently .
15 If you do n't feel bold or rich enough to take a gamble on sovereigns , for only £7.25 , you can buy a presentation folder containing one each of the £2 coins issued to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Rights .
16 If you do n't feel bold or rich enough to take a gamble on sovereigns , for only £7.25 , you can buy a presentation folder containing one each of the £2 coins issued to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Rights .
17 If you do n't feel bold or rich enough to take a gamble on sovereigns , for only £7.25 , you can buy a presentation folder containing one each of the £2 coins issued to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Rights .
18 However an encouraging number of teacher groups did find a first step of action to take as a result of using the process .
19 The two sides agreed to hold the next round of talks in Beijing in the first half of 1992 .
20 Both men promised to return the next day .
21 But a journalist on a local paper had claimed that the police had fired the first shot and without shouting a warning to Place .
22 And it may have been pertinent that in the major games ( and Bay of Plenty and Manawatu might rank only slightly below the status ) the home sides tended to dominate the last quarter of each game .
23 The 14 March 1988 order recorded that accounts had already been supplied to the plaintiffs and that those accounts had discharged the first defendant 's accounting obligations ‘ subject only to the plaintiffs ' rights under Ord. 43 , r. 5 of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 and their rights to require vouching of the said accounts . ’
24 The speedway fans started a campaign which was backed by the local MP and raised a petition signed by over five thousand names … today the speedway rulers decided to reorganise the first division and keep Swindon in it …
25 Mrs Pat Taylor , of Prestatyn , was one of 100 women nominated to attend the first North Wales Woman of the Year lunch , at the Kinmel Manor Hotel , Abergele , which raised £10,000 for the work of the children 's charity , Barnardos , in Wales .
26 Further declines in infant mortality and substantial declines in mortality of older adults had to await the twentieth century , where the former was substantially responsible for the improved trend in expectation of life ( see Woods and Hinde 1987 ) .
27 What lay beneath it was totally unimportant , having lost all relevance to the world when the worms , the termites and the bacteria had converted the last shred of flesh into dust and left the dry bones to crumble .
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