Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 4.7 compares the action and control samples between first and second assessments , omitting all those who died or moved away before the second interview , and any who refused to take part in the tests on either occasion . |
| 2 | Cash is paid in , drawn out or paid away to a third party by means of cheques . |
| 3 | Prosecutions for abortion doubled between 1900 and 1910 and doubled again during the next twenty years , but this may merely indicate more vigilance on the part of the authorities rather than increasing incidence . |
| 4 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
| 5 | Dawn Run took the lead from the start and hopped nimbly over the first two fences . |
| 6 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 7 | Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets . |
| 8 | Rose of Lima wrote no spiritual works ; influenced , in her time at least , no worldly powers ; reformed no evil Church authorities ; fought no public battles ; and lived anyway in a Third World country thousands of miles from the centre of things . |
| 9 | He fought as a banneret in the first Welsh war of 1277–8 , visited Gascony and Paris on Edward 's business in 1278–9 , and fought again in the second Welsh war of 1282–3 . |
| 10 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 11 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 12 | The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years . |
| 13 | Therefore if calves grazed from early spring are given an anthelmintic treatment in early July and moved immediately to a second pasture such as silage or hay aftermath , the level of infection which develops on the second pasture will be low . |
| 14 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 15 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 16 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 17 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 18 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 19 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 20 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 21 | It was developed and used primarily during the First World War as a means of preventing dogs , used in the trenches as messengers and for other activities , from betraying their positions by a casual bark . |
| 22 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 23 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 24 | The relative positions of the players changed and changed again over the second half and , as we waited on the eighteenth tee , Miguel had edged yet again one shot ahead of Jack . |
| 25 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
| 26 | ‘ A whole city partying — and transported back into the eighteenth century ! ’ |
| 27 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 28 | She was not squeamish about using her considerable social influence in support of her son Winston ; she pressed his writing on publishers , sought for favourable reviewers , and appealed directly to the third Marquess of Salisbury , then prime minister , to permit him to join the expedition to the Sudan under Sir H. Herbert Kitchener ( later first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum , q.v . ) . |
| 29 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 30 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |