Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My actual first thatching was done at Chessington Zoo on the ladies ' loos when we were helping out a fellow franchisee with whom Eric had trained . |
| 2 | The sight of a word processor so terrifies me that I 've stuck rigidly to scissors and adhesive tape , while a genius of a lady in Twickenham makes sense of my appalling first drafts . |
| 3 | Let me tell you , when those dubbin-lickers at Whaddon go on their knees and beg me to bring my United first team squad to ‘ The Tip ’ to put a few quid in their ailing coffers , I shall take great delight in treading on Ken Mentle 's fingers , provided he survives last week 's heart attack , and raising two toes in a defiant ‘ get lost ’ gesture . |
| 4 | ‘ My young next door neighbour was sitting directly opposite me and he was completely unharmed . |
| 5 | Turn over further , there 's a third file for my upper sixth physics group and so on . |
| 6 | A simple example of this occurs in languages that draw their polite second person singular pronoun from their plural one , where there will be no overt distinction between second person singular polite and second person plural pronouns . |
| 7 | Desperate ways to achieve desperate means Alan Murray charts the IRA 's strategy of using civilian carnage to further its message and looks at its possible next moves |
| 8 | The wartime routine was enlivened by a series of afternoon musical concerts for secondary school pupils at the Davenport Theatre ; by potato-picking at harvest time ; by Christmas work at the General Post Office ; by firewatching duties with the ARP , both at School and at Stockport High School ( the latter venue being very popular , a girls ' school and not to be confused with its short-lived 19th century boys ' predecessor ) ; and by the various fund-raising " War Weeks " : " War Weapons Week " in 1941 raised £5,729 ; " School Warships " in 1942 £5,900 ; " Wings for Victory " in 1943 £10,571 ; " Salute the Soldier " in 1944 £10,785 ; and " Thanksgiving Week " in 1945 raised £14,100 , and also won the boys an extra half-holiday . |
| 9 | Rangers manager Gerry Francis , disappointed that his side failed to capitalise on their outstanding first half display conceded : ‘ Barnes was the difference , not just by the way he played , but more by his sheer presence . ’ |
| 10 | Kilmarnock manager Jim Fleeting and part-time assistant Jim McSherry have resigned following Saturday 's defeat by Partick which ended their Scottish first division promotion hopes . |
| 11 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 12 | After reporting a $260.5m net loss for its fiscal first quarter , chief executive Robert Palmer declared that ‘ Digital will change . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
| 14 | KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta warns that it expects to report non-recurring charges of $20m for its fiscal third quarter to March 31 from acquisitions and restructuring and expansion of product lines , and that this will lead to a loss for the quarter and for the year ; it also says that lower revenues combined with operating costs associated with the acquisitions are expected to contribute to a third quarter operating loss ; it looks for growth in European revenues . |
| 15 | Ask Computer Systems Inc warns that it will only break even , and may make a loss for its fiscal third quarter , adding that the poor profit forecast results from its failure to close about $10m in sales in the period but that does not necessarily mean the company permanently lost those sales ; the company said a significant amount of software licence sales it had expected for the quarter did not close in time . |
| 16 | Hewlett-Packard Co shares plunged a week or so back after a warning that its fiscal third quarter earnings to July 31 would be flat , and the news that it posted a net of $191m or 76 cents a share , compared with $192m or 76 cents a share last year , suggests that times have become exceedingly hard in the Unix market this summer , and that Sun Microsystems ' weak fiscal fourth quarter ( UX No 397 ) may not have been solely down to product line transitions . |
| 17 | It says it expects to incur a one-time charge of about $8.0m in its fiscal fourth quarter to March 31 to cover the extra costs and charges related to restructuring the integrated operations of the two firms . |
| 18 | Since then the group have changed management , written loads of chunky new tunes and recorded their mighty second LP , ‘ Body Exit Mind ’ , in Brussels . |
| 19 | Its early seventeenth century church is pleasing and interesting . |
| 20 | ‘ On Saturday Bohunt School held its annual fifth year ball . |
| 21 | One watches the 100 metres , that legendary dash with its magical ten-second touchstone , and one knows that these men , these Christies and Lewises and Burrells , are running toward the destiny of becoming the fastest human being in the world . |
| 22 | She had promised a wealth of experience on their exploratory first date . |
| 23 | Its unfortunate nineteenth century occupants varied from those guilty of setting fire to one of her Majesty 's ships , embezzling Queen 's stores and ‘ threatening to stab one Lorrazo Cielcovich ’ or breaking a door to the still familiar ‘ drunk and disorderly ’ . |
| 24 | Making little detours off the motorway , you will quickly discover such fascinating towns as Altomonto with its unusual 14th century gothic church with big rose window , and Montalto Uffugo whose castle perches precariously on a steep hillside above a graceful , romanesque cathedral . |
| 25 | Southwell Minster is a very beautiful building , much of its exterior unchanged from Norman times but also with its unique thirteenth century interior work ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 26 | The party 's efforts to save its skin will be tested on June 17th , when its delayed seventh congress is due to start . |
| 27 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S fading hopes of improving their current eighth place in the Carlsberg League division two could receive a boost tomorrow when they entertain Ware at the Rainbow Centre ( 4pm ) . |
| 28 | Chopin was only four when the second concerto had its premiere — listening to its long-spun lines , its confident forays into high registers and its complex first movement harmonic excursions , one might more readily place Field as a companion of the virtuoso 's old age . |
| 29 | As her brilliant last novel , Wise Children , demonstrates , Angela Carter liked ‘ heroic vulgarity ’ , a quality she detects in Michael Moorcock 's Mother London . |
| 30 | THE QUEEN chose Salisbury Crags and Arthur 's Seat for the background to this portrait of her unveiled last night at the Caledonian Club in London . |