Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 2 | Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 . |
| 3 | They had left Ridgery Butts on the 24th of April , it was now the 27th and the outlaws ' camp could not be far ahead . |
| 4 | WARRINGTON skipper Bob Jackson came within an eighth of an inch of losing an eye on Sunday . |
| 5 | The A178 Tees Road closes for the first of three successive Sundays tomorrow , between Greatham Creek and the B1277 Brenda Road . |
| 6 | Diane stopped by the first of the mounds , not too close , and waited for Aldridge to catch up . |
| 7 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 8 | It is a labour of love by a cast which includes some of Scotland 's finest and best known actors , and while being an expression of passion for theatre it paradoxically undermines the title John Byrne gave to the last of his celebrated trilogy . |
| 9 | Blanche drank off the last of her whisky , leaving a few pebbles of unmelted ice in the bottom of her glass . |
| 10 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 11 | Elisabeth Leonskaja opts for the second of these views in her performance of No. 1 , and the deliberate- sounding first movement that results is not altogether convincing . |
| 12 | Anyone who has not seen Karajan 's Berliners in full cry — the CD videos will rectify this omission in the fullness of time — can at least catch something of the wonder of the spectacle in the piece Neville Cardus wrote about the first of the 1961 Beethoven concerts in London . |
| 13 | Until recently Germany accounted for a fifth of its total sales . |
| 14 | At about the same time , Jamal Hamadan put in the first of the 60 telephone calls he would make from Paris to Fawaz Younis in Beirut before the trap was sprung . |
| 15 | FAXgrabber made about a tenth of the errors . |
| 16 | GEORGE BELL drove in the last of three runs in the eighth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays came from behind for a 4-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in the SkyDome on Saturday and reached the American League championship series against the Oakland Athletics . |
| 17 | In his manner of thought and sympathies , Anselm belonged to the first of these two periods , both with regard to the organization of the Church and the supremacy of the monastic foundations which had maintained the spiritual life of Europe for three or four hundred years . |
| 18 | Hitherto Switzerland accounted for a third of all hazardous waste imported into Britain . |
| 19 | David Oldfield headed Leicester ahead in the 10th minute and two minutes later David Lowe volleyed in the first of his two goals . |