Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the one hand , such action would simply rekindle the international outcry that resulted in the postponement of the ‘ harvest ’ or cull in the first place .
2 Compare the the text at the beginning with hers , the the the Middle English text with hers , and tell me , is there anything which she has caught well , or anything which she has missed out , or look at the first sentence , is she right there ?
3 Salary is paid by the province or state for the first year after which the employer accepts responsibility .
4 There was no room for Haydn or Hume in the eighteenth century , for Verdi or even Dostoevsky in the nineteenth .
5 Their power rests on the continuing ability of the old world to refuse to think , see or care about the Third World .
6 What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel .
7 Maitland to be asked to circulate a copy of the draft Minute of Agreement to Christian Aid and SCIAF before the next meeting so that this can be looked at .
8 But City are prone to concede goals in the last quarter of an hour and bang on the 75th minute the impressive young Dodd fed a wonderful 30-yard pass to Rod Wallace , who held off two defenders to equalise .
9 At the time I wondered how any improvements could be visual , when I learnt that players could ignore March winds and appear on the 1st tee in shirt and slacks .
10 Turn left from the entrance and wait on the first corner .
11 The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle .
12 Or chortle and wait for the next T-shirt ?
13 Greenough and colleagues showed that preterm babies who did not require respiratory support had a high prevalence of wheeze and cough in the first year of life .
14 A fitting finale — and summons to the Last Judgement , be ye Saint or Sinner .
15 So can we just ignore that for the moment and focus on the first sheet deliberately
16 List all your good points , i.e. determination etc , and focus on the next race .
17 As you 'll notice when you play this , it 's actually the same phrase or ‘ motif ’ taken up through 3 octaves using 3 Pentatonic positions on the fretboard ; we start in the 3rd position and finish in the 10th position .
18 Ever demonstrative , Markus Stenz clearly aimed at the dramatic in Beethoven 's Symphony No4 and digging deep , uncovered hidden orchestral reserves bringing a satisfying degree of tension and thrill to the first movement .
19 Whether Drake was the first person to introduce potatoes to Britain is a matter of debate , but they certainly came to this country as stores aboard the ships which sailed to South America on missions of pillage and plunder in the 16th Century .
20 Open the glass fronted cupboard on the left-hand side and look on the fourth shelf from the top .
21 As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more .
22 IT was claps , crackles and pop at the first night of a new comedy venue in Darlington .
23 Even today there are those who have doubts about the great burst of prosperity and splendour in the first half of the fourth century manifest in the great villas .
24 Spray it and jump to the next ledge and grab the extra life .
25 Rip it into tiny pieces and throw it at the bride and groom at the next wedding you see .
26 Now for God 's sake let's go to the airport and get on the next flight home . ’
27 It would be great to bounce back from a temporary aberration and get into the Third Division .
28 Lopsided and vulnerable , he tried to climb the barrage and get to the second balloon .
29 [ J. M. Price , France and the Chesapeake , 2 vols. , 1973 ; Charles Wilson , Anglo-Dutch Commerce and Finance in the Eighteenth Century , 1941 . ]
30 I fetch water — an easy job , just grab a kettle , head for the cliffs and fill from the first stream you fall in — and offer it to Tor .
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