Example sentences of "and [art] [num ord] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 2 | Here was the source of the Committee members ' indecision and the second of the factors which decided the matter in Franco 's favour . |
| 3 | Throw the blue object onto the button , go left , fall down and cross the river on the cakes , go up on the ice cream , go right , fall down , cross the river on the cake , climb up via the platforms and lifts to the top of the map , jump onto the wall to the left , fall down one platform , stand on the lift moving left to right , collect the cocoa bean and fall down , go right , cross the first river on the cake , and the second on the platforms , when you 're on top of the wall next to the second river . |
| 4 | I have suggested that we use Maa with subtitles ( I am thinking of Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans ) . |
| 5 | Cardiff watched as the three policemen on the cordon-barrier lifted the wooden pole and the last of the police cars slid past and vanished into the storm . |
| 6 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton 's father was Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton , first Baron Lytton as distinct from first Earl , and wrote some massive novels including Eugene Aram ( 3 vols. 1832 ) , The Last Days of Pompeii ( 3 vols. 1834 ) , The Caxtons ( 3 vols. 1849 ) and The Last of the Barons ( 1843 ) . |
| 7 | He stumped off , in search of split infinitives and incorrect usages of the adverb ‘ hopefully ’ , and the Last of the Hippies picked up his Moonchild or Starbeam or whatever , and calmed her down . |
| 8 | I mean Jim went to work at one o'clock and the last of the kids went home , I 've had my dinner |
| 9 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 10 | Cardiff turned away from the rain-streaked window as the policemen on cordon-duty lifted the wooden pole and the last of the cars slid away into the night . |
| 11 | ‘ So here we are , ’ Ratagan said , ‘ in Talisker , biggest city of the north , and the last before the mountains . |
| 12 | We shall be coming back in this chapter and the next to the problems that occur when choice is based on too much of ‘ I love me ’ and ‘ I love the me in you ’ , but first we need to look at the basic capacity to realize some love for another , with its mix of self-regard and altruism . |
| 13 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
| 14 | Of the other large groups of courses , PGCE Primary students on between a quarter and a third of the courses received little on The Language of Specialist Subjects , Standard Language , Accent and Dialect , Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and Classroom Research . |