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

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1 When the fry hatch out , they should be fed on Liquifry or rotifers as a first food , because they 're too tiny to take newly-hatched brine shrimp .
2 It has a symbolic broom and drives behind the last man on the road , ready to sweep up those who abandon the race .
3 Rejected reaffirmation of Labour 's former policy of unilaterally renouncing the use or possession of British nuclear weapons , and the ‘ unconditional removal of all nuclear weapons and nuclear bases from British soil and waters within the first parliament of the next Labour government ’ .
4 Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War .
5 Teesside Crown Court heard he suffered a black eye and cuts in the first attack .
6 The bowler returns the ball to his own end and prepares for the next delivery .
7 The glissando begins on the second beat , reaches its upward limit on the third , returns to its starting-point on the fourth , and ends on the first beat of the next bar .
8 the date of its incorporation ) and ends on the last day of the reference period and that subsequent financial years begin with the day immediately following the end of the previous financial year and end with the last day of its next accounting reference period ‘ or on such other date not more than seven days before or after the end of that period as the directors may determine . ’
9 There were plenty of thrills and spills as the first round of the East Senior knockout cup got underway .
10 ( ALFRED , still in his queen 's costume , dies by poison : the PLAYER , with rapier , kills the " KING " and duels with a fourth TRAGEDIAN , inflicting and receiving a wound : the two remaining TRAGEDIANS , the two " SPIES " dressed in the same coats as ROS and GUIL , are stabbed , as before .
11 As a great many parishes had invested in new pulpits and lecterns during the fifteenth century , few were erected during Elizabeth 's reign , but following the issuing in 1604 of new ecclesiastical canons which ordered that ‘ a comely and decent pulpit ’ should be kept in every church , the reign of James I saw a notable upsurge in pulpit-building .
12 An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train .
13 He powerslides the car through the right , catches it again off the track and aims towards the next left-hander under full power .
14 If Bowe wins and opts for a first defence against veteran George Foreman , the WBC have confirmed they will strip him of the title and declare Lennox Lewis champion .
15 Yet/in any event we have a firm idea about the most effective path and unreservedly recommend that at the beginning of the project one looks at the list of telephone numbers and addresses on the last page of this brochure .
16 ‘ Beautiful Pigeon ’ is backed with two exclusive new tracks , ‘ Beeside ’ and ‘ Home Survival Kit ’ , and serves as the first taster from their forthcoming ‘ Eva Luna ’ LP due on October 24 .
17 He 's in favour of it , perhaps even likes it , and approves of the Third World rather as some of the English also evince my approval , Malcolm Lowry and Graham Greene among them .
18 The system is available now in the UK , and follows in the first quarter next year in Germany , through Enterprise .
19 Amethyst is concentrated at Faversham , in west Kent , and dates to the seventh century , whereas crystal and probably the wheel-thrown bottles of sixth century date are found in east Kent .
20 Your example is possibly a poor quality pewter with a rope border design , and dates to the 18th century .
21 From then one we are taken through a Druids ' Grove to consider swords , war trumpets , and the bronze shield cover discovered in the River Witham in Lincolnshire and dates from the second century BC .
22 This brick building replaces a stone Romanesque cathedral and dates from the thirteenth century onwards ( 565 ) .
23 This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century .
24 The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) .
25 The building is brick and dates from the fourteenth century , though with later fenestration and entrance doorway .
26 It is a substantial brick watermill , and dates from the seventeenth century .
27 The Trondheim episcopal palace adjoins the cathedral and dates from the twelfth century .
28 The archway itself is in fine condition and dates from the third century B.C. It forms part of the Etruscan walls to the city and is the best extant example of Etruscan masonry .
29 It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it .
30 My own favourite example concerns the determination of the atomic and molecular weights of naturally occurring elements and compounds in the nineteenth century .
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