Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1921 the Society of Chemical Industry instituted the Messel medal , its senior award given every second year . |
| 2 | In my own case I know that the first link produces the last through the intermediate link , and could not produce it without . |
| 3 | It did n't take much anaesthetic to render the exhausted patient unconscious , and , as Sophie made the first incision , she put aside her dislike of being critically watched by her professional rival and concentrated on her life-saving task . |
| 4 | Durham County champion Craig Kilgour made the first steps towards his comeback last weekend when he was among a number of county players who took part in a coaching session held by English Golf Union coach Bill Ferguson . |
| 5 | The operation of news values constitutes the second set of pressures . |
| 6 | Formal veterinary instruction began in France in 1762 , when the world 's first veterinary school opened in Lyons , where a 24-year-old named Laurent Gaillard became the first pupil on 16 February . |
| 7 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 8 | The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s . |
| 9 | Golf : An uphill struggle mastering the 18th |
| 10 | But in the new spate of glasnost , or openness , one of I T N's Moscow reporters , Bill Meely became the first European journalist to be shown inside the Lubyanka , the K G B's headquarters . |
| 11 | The 18-year-old 's enthusiasm made the first and third chances for Hendrie after 51 and 66 minutes . |
| 12 | Satisfied , Barry Silk laid the last item of his equipment lovingly down , almost as if for a kit inspection . |
| 13 | Huge crowds flock from East and West to see the second half of the artist 's career |
| 14 | The town was laid out in a military camp plan with a wide , straight road crossing the city centre from one side of the town to the other and similar roads intersecting the first at right angles . |
| 15 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 16 | Er there was a lady fell over about two months ago on that footpath just at the beginning of the winter , and the cathedral council offered to pay for the installation of a light and what we did we contributed seventy seven pounds which is sixty including V A T to enable a second light to be installed because of the two steps on that footpath , one at each end , erm |
| 17 | The news came as Johnson Matthey announced a second top-level boardroom departure within 24 hours . |
| 18 | The news came as Johnson Matthey announced a second top-level boardroom departure within 24 hours . |
| 19 | The upper field displays the next page number to be inspected , if one exists . |
| 20 | Lieutenant General Augustus Pitt-Rivers became the first official guardian of Britain 's heritage |
| 21 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 22 | The Daltons became the second husband and wife team in the Commons , but three months later he came North to bag the seat for himself . |
| 23 | HAND PUPPETS made to look like mature Californian condors are being used by biologists at the San Diego wild animal park to nurse the first two Californian condor chicks born in captivity through the early weeks of life . |
| 24 | Scott and a team including Chris Bonington made the first ascent in 1977 ; on the rock ridge of Shivling East Pillar ; Greg Child belayed on Lobsang Spire in the Karakoram — another first ascent for Scott in 1983 . |
| 25 | On July 1 Andorra became the first non-EC country to join the EC customs union , when a treaty signed in June 1990 [ see p. 37592 ] came into effect . |
| 26 | Sitting alone at her kitchen table , Kelly read the last words ever written by her father . |
| 27 | When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime . |
| 28 | Championship leader Mansell , who dominated the season 's first two races in South Africa and Mexico , is clear favourite to claim a third successive win after an almost contemptuous demonstration of his and the Canon Williams Renault team 's superiority on the twisting , bumpy Interlagos circuit . |
| 29 | In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) . |
| 30 | Ferguson became the first player to be sent off in the six-year reign of Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh . |