Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century . |
| 2 | It has been used successfully in the drilling of the first extended-reach well to the offshore extension of the Sherwood reservoir lying under Poole Bay and is now being used for the second well being drilled . |
| 3 | Is it right that liability for the second most heinous crime in English law , which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment , should be satisfied by this relatively low grade of fault ? |
| 4 | For the second most important place in the Government , that of Foreign Secretary , he initially chose J. H. Thomas , a man of coarse speech and coarser wit who had demonstrated his administrative talents in directing a succession of railway strikes . |
| 5 | Instead , the combined amount payable from next April will be £19.40 for the first child and £18.65 for the second onwards . |
| 6 | He co-authored the first Dalek movie , and wrote dialogue for the second virtually single-handedly . |
| 7 | Waqar , relieved after only one over with the new ball , came on for the 17th over and soon caused umpire Shepherd to scowl as he bounced the ball into Atherton 's left arm and Smith 's helmet . |
| 8 | Oh yes , most of the lads here are really erm over the moon about it , it was a tough game , we erm outplayed them for the first probably three quarters of an hour really . |
| 9 | BORIS YELTSIN , maverick and volleyball enthusiast , is the only plausible rival to Mikhail Gorbachev for the first freely elected president of the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 11 | Tension was mounting as preparations got underway for the first ever race between a balloon , a steamroller … and a narrowboat.As entrants arrived for the annual steam rally at Upton , the contestants in the battle of the giants were all expressing optimism.Balloonist Chris Viles reckoned he was in with a good chance : |
| 12 | 20 miles of cable will provide 1 000 000 watts of light and 24 kilowatts of sound … for the first ever Wiltshire Festival at Lydiard Park in Swindon . |
| 13 | Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up . |
| 14 | Twenty-six racial equality officers came to the university to enrol in classes for the first ever diploma in race and community relations . |
| 15 | MERSEYSIDERS were gathering in Sydney , Australia , today for the first ever meeting of ‘ Scousers Down Under ’ , organised with the help of the Echo . |
| 16 | In fact , there 's a tie between these two concerns and health for the sixth most important concern in men 's lives . |
| 17 | Although Wright was missed by Gooch , low down at third slip off DeFreitas when 3 , the serious stuff began only when Tufnell was given the ball for the 26th over . |
| 18 | The bowling rate for each batsman should start off at Slow for the first ‘ over ’ of six balls , then go to Medium for the next over , and Fast for the third over ; this sequence then repeating if the same batsman is still at the crease . |
| 19 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
| 20 | Somerset openers Andy Hayhurst and Mark Lathwell began promisingly against the pacemen but Carrick came on for the last over before lunch and had Lathwell caught at slip off a cunningly flighted ball which turned . |
| 21 | The bowling rate for each batsman should start off at Slow for the first ‘ over ’ of six balls , then go to Medium for the next over , and Fast for the third over ; this sequence then repeating if the same batsman is still at the crease . |
| 22 | He moved away , and I put on my strained smile again for the next patiently waiting customer . |
| 23 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 24 | Before the new holes were commissioned the best had to be made of the shortened course , such as the 2nd also playing as the 17th . |
| 25 | Dental fluorosis , no matter how slight , is an irreversible pathological condition recognised by authorities around the world as the first readily detectable clinical symptom of previous chronic fluoride poisoning . |
| 26 | Ben now agrees with Continental opinion that his route Agincourt at Buoux , heralded as the first ever 8c , was actually preceded by Gullich 's Wall Street in Germany . |
| 27 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 28 | The BTO/BASF Garden Bird Survey started in September 1987 as the first ever , year-round study of garden birds . |
| 29 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 30 | Levitt considers many Japanese companies as the first truly global marketers and contrasts their practices strongly with the approach taken by Hoover in marketing automatic washing machines in Europe . |