Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 3 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 4 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 5 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 6 | So blackly venomous was his expression that Perdita fled towards the next pitch , scattering the polo balls which lay like a hatch of goose eggs near the goal posts . |
| 7 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 8 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 9 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 10 | The first peacetime , and civil , air disaster in Ayrshire occurred on the 20th October , 1948 . |
| 11 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 12 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 13 | Paul Weston scored in the first half for Stockton , but it was not until the last five minutes that Paul Bromley crossed for their second try . |
| 14 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 15 | Woolley swung into a second chorus , and gave it greater volume . |
| 16 | Richard Carlile followed with the first book on contraception in 1826 ( Every Woman 's Book ) , followed by Moral Physiology by the American socialist Robert Dale Owen , 1830 , and Dr Charles Knowlton 's Fruits of Philosophy in New York in 1832 . |
| 17 | ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] . |
| 18 | Gorbachev returned for a second visit on Nov. 18-21 , 1988 , accompanied by the Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers , Vladimir Kamentsev . |
| 19 | When Levi walked off the 15th green , somebody told him , ‘ Watson 's gon na get you . ’ |
| 20 | Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government . |
| 21 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
| 22 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 23 | No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean . |
| 24 | But Bull 's eighth goal of the season was Wolves ' only reward for their territorial dominance , and Aston Villa squeezed into the third round by virtue of the early goal Derek Mountfield had added to their first-leg advantage . |
| 25 | On the 5th June 1156 , Frederick Barbarossa married for the second time . |
| 26 | In The Faerie Queene , Spenser wrote of the first man and woman as ‘ Elfe … and Fay … [ of ] whom all Fayres spring ’ : |
| 27 | England piled on the pressure and were rewarded when Martin Offiah struck in the 55th minute . |
| 28 | Mul was evidently established as king in Kent but he was burnt to death there and Caedwalla responded with a second invasion in 687 ( ASC A , s.a. 687 ) and may then have ruled Kent directly for a time . |
| 29 | As Sir John Harrington said in the sixteenth century : |
| 30 | However , Syrian officials contended that with the signing of the treaty Syria had for the first time formally acknowledged Lebanon as an independent state . |