Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At half past eight I have a final walk in Buron 's Court , opposite the Royal Hospital Chelsea , and then I go to bed about eleven — hoping it 's a breakfast day tomorrow . |
| 2 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 3 | In July 1972 I spent a whole afternoon discussing teaching and children with the headmaster of what corresponded roughly to a middle school . |
| 4 | In 1972 I suggested a fresh categorization of the processes involved to take into account an additional meaning of ‘ propagate ’ ; namely to rear to sexual maturity . |
| 5 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 6 | A compact disc player was suspected of interfering with the flight management of a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 which caused an uncommanded change of modes . |
| 7 | You must study Information Circular 56/1984 which lists the main ones . |
| 8 | In a sense , the concerns of today echo those which preceded the enactment of the Glass-Steagall Act in the US in 1933 which established a formal separation between banking and securities activities . |
| 9 | Since the Hungarians had forced him to accept the famous ‘ Compromise ’ of June 1867 which divided the Austrian dominions , Franz-Joseph 's field of action in foreign policy was limited by pressures from the Hungarian half of the Empire . |
| 10 | A key catalyst of this development was the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in November 1985 which awarded the Irish government a greater consultative role in Northern Irish affairs . |
| 11 | The effect of this recruitment pattern on wage profiles is shown in Figure 3.7 which relates the average wage for each age group to educational background . |
| 12 | To illustrate Say 's Law , consider e. 2 which shows a simplified version of the circular flow of income diagram . |
| 13 | In the early years of her reign Elizabeth was faced with an urgent crisis on her northern border , and in 1562–4 she pursued an expensive adventure into France . |
| 14 | It was done in 1972 by Black , Jensen and Scholes , 2 who took a random sample of shares quoted on the NYSE and calculated the betas from 60 consecutive monthly returns . |
| 15 | In his notebooks of 1867 we find an extraordinary profusion of plans for a book : one or two are lists of wide-ranging topics arranged to form a more or less coherent whole ; most are variations on the theme of tragedy . |
| 16 | I 'm the club 's President for life — great honour , that — and in 1985 we launched the bi-annual Max Boyce Classic to raise money for improvements . |
| 17 | In Section 2 we cover the personal qualities that are evident in visionary leaders and successful change makers . |
| 18 | In Part 2 we have a special guest . |
| 19 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 20 | In 401 they entered the western part of the Empire , under the leadership of Alaric I. Once again they oscillated between friendship with the Romans and outright hostility , depending on the possibility of imperial recognition and acceptance . |
| 21 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 22 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
| 23 | In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope . |
| 24 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 25 | He was also a self-educated man , with a particular interest in astronomy , and in 1933 he discovered a white spot on the surface of Saturn . |
| 26 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 27 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 28 | In 1776 he became an active member of the ( Smeatonian ) Society of Civil Engineers , the influential dining club of John Smeaton [ q.v. ] and other leading practical men of the day . |
| 29 | In 1776 he became an active partner in this firm , now styled Barclay , Bevan & Bening . |
| 30 | By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people . |