Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jiang 's visit to the Soviet Union was the first by a CCP general secretary since Mao Zedong 's 1957 visit to Moscow for celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution [ see pp. 15899-902 ] . |
| 2 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 3 | In the larger nations in the 1980S IBM in effect became the second national champion , and in some smaller countries perhaps even the first national champion computer supplier . |
| 4 | The people of Ross on Wye claim the first British balloon flight was over the town on February the 22nd 1784 . |
| 5 | AFTER celebrations at Coventry in May to mark the 100th meeting , the British Aviation Preservation Council 's 101st quarterly conference , staged at the RAF Museum at Hendon on August 22 , returned to its usual format , reports Trevor Green . |
| 6 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 7 | Top : Mother and son of ‘ disappeared ’ Pineda Henestrosa , in Mexico ; bottom : Prayer in Santiago Atitlan in Guatemala to mark the first anniversary of the massacre of 15 Tzutuhil Indians |
| 8 | Wednesday must have wished he had , the way Atkinson chested down and volleyed home a 20th-minute clearance , then spun brilliantly on a Neal Cox through ball to score a second after 67 . |
| 9 | Democrat Carol Moseley from Illinios became the first black woman to be elected to the Senate . |
| 10 | President Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of state on July 19 to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed by the six Warsaw Pact and 16 NATO member countries in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , and which entailed sharp reductions in troops , tanks and weaponry . |
| 11 | BARRY Cowan from Ormskirk claimed a third round place in the 1992 Volkswagen National Tennis Championships men 's singles event at the Telford Racquet Centre in Shropshire yesterday . |
| 12 | Seven other Second XI matches resulted in wins with Southend on Sea reversing the First XI result , beating Woodford Wells by 7 wickets . |
| 13 | The pattern of Europe was squarely placed upon the city of Jerusalem when , in 1100 , Baldwin of Boulogne became the first King of Jerusalem . |