Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Metaphorically , we can imagine theoretical astronomers breathing a sigh of relief and saying ‘ Oh , so the Sun is only shrinking by a tenth of a second of arc per century , not a full arc second after all . |
| 2 | After the decision in and which was only reported on the fifth of October of this year in the all England reports . |
| 3 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 4 | But the image would n't come , it was softly blotted out in this warm , rosy room with drawers and cupboards being gently closed upon the last of her possessions and Lyddy asking her which dress she wanted laid out for dinner . |
| 5 | Each expression was as swiftly melted into the next as a tiny wave lapped by a faster following . |
| 6 | John Wriglesworth , the housing analyst at UBS , a Swiss bank , estimates that the stock of unsold homes has already fallen by a third over the past year . |
| 7 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 8 | The Austrian pulled away further with a third to Hunt 's fifth in Sweden to stretch hi lead to a mammoth 47 points . |
| 9 | The Sergeant was played by William Hartnell , best known as the first of TV 's Dr Who . |
| 10 | Forget , who had just gone through the last of countless body punches from Noah , ( who throughout , worked just as hard to encourage his players as they did to respond to him ) literally ran from his seat , round the net to the far baseline in readiness to serve . |
| 11 | Mozart arrived back in Salzburg in mid-January and his certificate of appointment was finally signed on the 17th of that month . |
| 12 | This was finally achieved on the fifth of July 1948 when the Labour Government implemented the Beveridge Report . |
| 13 | Usually cited as the first of its kind , the Amalgamated Society of Engineers comprised into a national organisation over one hundred unions or branches of union , the whole administered by a central executive . |
| 14 | Although he suggests that the three possibilities need not be mutually exclusive , Baker 's sympathies clearly lie with the last of these ; but many scientists still need convincing that man can make use of a built-in magnetic compass , even if he possesses one . |
| 15 | Ned Corvan was a song-writer , fiddler and performer in the working-class concert halls and pubs of Tyne side in North-East England during the 1850s and early 1860s ; in his final years he also worked in the first of the new kind of music halls , owned by commercially ambitious entrepreneurs and orientated more towards a nationally organized market and production system . |
| 16 | The death of Aegidius was recorded within the account of the Loire wars in the Angers chronicle , and his son Syagrius later appears as the first of the opponents and victims of Childeric 's son Clovis . |
| 17 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
| 18 | I now turn to the third of my questions : what controls the whole system ? |
| 19 | We now come to the first of the simpler tests for irreducibility over Q[x] . |
| 20 | The next type of planned town includes those which are reasonably well dated to the tenth to thirteenth centuries and which were clearly new planned urban centres added on to existing villages by their owners as attempts to encourage trade . |
| 21 | And you , my dear Mary , respected though your name is — you are insufficiently regarded as the first of that invaluable breed , preceeding them by at least one whole generation ! |
| 22 | David said nothing because his mouth was fully occupied by the last of Ginny 's breakfast . |
| 23 | We then talked about the first of those two towers of Tower Bridge if you remember which was about the skills that we need for er delivery . |
| 24 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 25 | In most individuals , the basi-occipital begins to fuse with the basisphenoid at about the seventeenth year , and they are usually completely joined by the twentieth to twenty-third year . |
| 26 | War was officially declared on the third of September nineteen thirty nine , although preparations for it had begun as earlem |
| 27 | Seven minutes later , McGlashen reached a through ball on the corner of the box yards ahead of goalkeeper Sieb Dykstra and neatly flicked in the second with his head . |
| 28 | I wonder if he 's looked in the minutes of the council er for this time twelve months ago er when we proposed a very similar amendment to the one that 's on the board there , the figures are reduced er but certainly lots of the areas are actually there and in fact if he looked back even further in the minutes he 'll see that it bears a striking resemblance to what we actually proposed on the fourteenth of February nineteen ninety one . |
| 29 | If James had to go , some Tories would have preferred to make Mary Queen , on the argument that the Crown had demised with James 's flight and therefore passed to the next in line of succession . |
| 30 | Operating losses were cut to £11.6m from £18.8m and group sales actually improved by a tenth to £399m , helped by favourable exchange rates . |