Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 An even more marked hiatus in the occupation sequence was recorded in the limited excavations in Heave Acre , alongside the Dorchester road , where traces of Flavian activity were overlain by a silt accumulation spanning the second century at least .
2 But you must wait for good weather to appreciate the mighty Picos de Europa range of mountains , just follow the river Deva through the dramatic La Hermida Defile ravine to the pretty Alpinesque town of Potes and on the Fuente Dé , where a cable car ascends the last 800 metres up to the sheer rock face .
3 BISHOP KONSTANT donned a hard hat on a building site to cut the first turf for a new £1.2 million hall of residence at Trinity and All Saints , Horsforth , a College of the University of Leeds .
4 Why might a computer designer choose the first scheme ?
5 Now in those cases we ca n't use the normal Chow tests we 've got more parameters to estimate than we have observations , right , as a result Chow developed a second test , right , from structural change where we do n't need er erm to estimate essentially the regression in the sub sample which has got very few obser observations but in that Chow , that Chow second test is often called a test of predicted failure , right , Microfit will calculate both of those tests and bear in mind I mean that we 're spending a lot of time on er parameter constancy , we must bear in mind that parameter constancy is vitally important if we are going to make these inferences possible be about policy making on the basis of our estimates .
6 ( Combined cycle plants use the exhaust gases from a combustion turbine to power a second steam turbine , thereby improving efficiency and reducing emissions . )
7 A telephone statement enables the last 25 recorded transactions to be read back on the phone .
8 With Granby Village conveniently situated in the City centre close to shops and local amenities , it provided an ideal start for a shopping spree to spend the first part of the prize — £100 in cash .
9 the player takes the first card and looks at it , if it is a question card ask the next player , one of the two questions
10 Right now he 's away on a skiing holiday catching the last of the snow . ’
11 A transit agreement granting the first two freedoms ( the right to overfly territory and to land to refuel and in emergencies ) was quickly ratified and remains in force today .
12 The statement accused President Mugabe 's Zimbabwe African National Union government of using riot police last week to suppress a student seminar to mark the first anniversary of an anti-corruption demonstration .
13 Batty 's right ankle was still swollen yesterday and it looked as though he would need a miracle cure to make the second leg of the European Cup tie .
14 Instantly there was controversy whether the movement forward of the second of the three Camel Bumps , the one bolder skiers use as a launch pad to clear the third , had neutered the course .
15 Let him who has never lifted the seam of a cricket ball cast the first stone . ’
16 A Platoon Commander plans the next move from the turret of his Warrior
17 President Hafez al-Assad on March 8 , in a speech to a youth rally marking the 27th anniversary of the accession to power of the Baath Party , appeared to confirm these reports .
18 It remains to be seen whether the order rate is significant enough to justify the volume potential , even for a chip MIPS calls the first 100 SPECmark optimised for personal computers .
19 The multiple linear regression analysis showed that access to a hospital dietitian gave the second largest contribution to explaining variance in the random haemoglobin A 1 value .
20 A buffet lunch to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sutton-on- Sea and Trusthorpe ladies ' guild was held at the Enterprise Club in March , attended by 72 supporters .
21 That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse .
22 Following the religious ceremony , Monsignor Olavio Lpez Duque blessed a memorial plaque symbolising the first stone of the central processing facilities ( CPF ) .
23 A 70-YEAR-OLD man and his former comrades will perform a parachute jump to mark the 50th anniversary of their wartime drop into the ‘ killing fields ’ of Arnhem .
24 Equation is seen , for instance , when we recognize a picture of someone we know ; and qualification was at work when a cave painter added the last few touches which made his bison look more energetic and more nearly alive than the others already on the rock face .
25 The Duchess of Kent attends a Thanksgiving Service to mark the 150th Anniversary of the foundation of the West of England School for Children with Little or No Sight in Exeter Cathedral .
26 A 16-bit computer has two instruction formats : Two schemes are possible for allocating bit patterns to operations : ( a ) One 4-bit pattern ( say 1111 ) in the 4 most-significant bits of an instruction word indicates the second format , while all other 4-bit patterns represent the first format .
27 They defended in depth and allowed an under-strength side to dominate the second half .
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