Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
| 2 | ‘ But why am I always the last to know ? ’ |
| 3 | What had occurred was an unprecedented box-office slump in which eventually a third of America 's movie-houses were to close and giant film corporations were to plunge into debt . |
| 4 | right , and its only the last couple of weeks that we 've really picked up |
| 5 | He hopes to bully Mr Kinnock — Mr Major 's refusal to contemplate such a deal is absolute — into establishing PR for ever , something for which only a fifth of the electorate will have voted . |
| 6 | There is PCB-burning capacity in Sweden , Finland , Germany and France , of which only the last is , like Britain , prepared to import such waste . |
| 7 | Joint ventures have been the main means by which about a tenth of Hungarian state companies have been touched by privatisation . |
| 8 | This would make them respectively the first and fifth most popular tourist arractions in the world , with the ones in between being the three existing Disney theme parks . |
| 9 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 10 | If you happen to know your bride or bridegroom 's tastes you could say , ‘ I would like to read you just the first verse/first two lines/last two lines of one of one of Sharon 's favourite poems about the sea . |
| 11 | It leads to Nova Iguacu , one of the satellite cities of Rio , and itself now the eighth largest city in the country , with a population of 1.2 million . |
| 12 | Trouble is , they 'll expect to see you here the next time they come . ’ |
| 13 | If the teacher criticised or even hit you then the last thing to do was complain at home because the certainty was you would be criticised or hit again . |
| 14 | Medical experts in Edinburgh were told that more than 13 million women will have been infected by the year 2000 , of whom nearly a third will by then have died . |
| 15 | and they just say it totally randomly and the last one just the first pers person who says Mornington Crescent is the winner but they 've made a great big sort of fiction as to how why , when it is suitable to say Mornington Crescent |
| 16 | ‘ Something under a fifth of a teaspoonful — say four or five drops — added to which it is highly soluble . ’ |
| 17 | Here we premultiply the first of Equations ( 10 ) by unc and the second by |
| 18 | I follow him through , calling something about a last train . |
| 19 | You will then need to go through all your entries to edit out your wrong spellings and inconsistencies since it is unlikely that you will have transcribed everything perfectly the first time . |
| 20 | The clerical representatives were a formidable number — forty-two diocesan proctors ( two from each diocese ) and twenty-three cathedral proctors ( including Bath as well as Wells , and Coventry as well as Lichfield ) — and with the rest of the clergy they constituted something over a third of the whole parliament . |
| 21 | There were over 4000 LEA careers officers in the UK in 1985 , of whom about a sixth were in government-funded posts dealing with unemployed young people and those on YTS . |
| 22 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 23 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 24 | Another try this afternoon could make him only the second Englishman to score in all four internationals in a season ; COULD , because Dewi Morris , whose mobile scrum half play has done much to transform England this season season is also on course to match the feat Carston Catcheside of Percy Park achieved in Wakefield 's 1924 side . |
| 25 | ‘ But yer always the first man aht , ’ pointed out the Old Stager agreeably . |
| 26 | When he asked if he could see her again the next day , she would not have dreamed of declining ; they saw each other for about a fortnight , and her enthusiasm for him increased with each meeting , though he said not a word of any interest in the whole two weeks . |
| 27 | The audience is small , a few hundreds , of whom maybe a third are white . |
| 28 | Publicans were still the most important occupational group , holding between them almost a third ( 31.2 per cent ) of all shares . |
| 29 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 30 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |