Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE IRB admitted five new members : Andorra ( a country playing in the FIRA second division ) , Chile ( arguably the second strongest nation in South America ) , Luxembourg , Hungary , and Latvia ( the first nation of the crumbling Soviet empire to join the Board ) . |
| 2 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 3 | MAIDSTONE U12 's visited twin town , in France , fro the 16th International Marcel Communeau Youth Rugby Tournament along with more than 60 clubs from France , Belgium , Holland and Germany . |
| 4 | But certainly at the moment , erm and at least until presumably the next general election , erm nobody can see much light at the end of that tunnel . |
| 5 | Luckily the last few miles are downhill into Barnsley . ’ |
| 6 | I board the plane feeling no pain , eat the evening meal and continue with the G&T theme , land in Gatwick and make the connection via the smoking area of the bar and another gulped Gordon 's , then pass on the second offered dinner but not the accompanying booze and quietly pass out somewhere over the West Midlands , to be woken by a dishy blonde with an impudent , dimpled smile and we 're here we 've landed we 've arrived , we 're on the stand at the airport and I 'd ask her what she 's doing later because I 'm drunk enough to not care when she says ‘ No ’ as she probably will , but I know I 'm too tired and besides my left eyelid 's stuck again and I suspect it makes me look a bit like Quasimodo , so I do n't say anything except , ‘ Uh , thanks , ’ which is cool or sad , I 'm not sure which . |
| 7 | Sandy played absolutely fantastically the first two days , but the greens were very strange and unkind to him . |
| 8 | LENNOX LEWIS and Frank Maloney are apparently the last two people this side of Jupiter to realise that when it comes to world heavyweight boxing titles , possession is 10 tenths of the law . |
| 9 | Among the more successful privately owned terminals have been the Glaswegian trio of Deanside , Mossend and Law junction , all of which ( but especially the first two ) have attracted healthy quantities of regular traffic . |
| 10 | ‘ effectiveness ’ and ‘ economy ’ were also used ; the meaning of these terms , especially the first two , has not always been agreed upon by writers in the context of LMS . |
| 11 | Notice especially the first two . |
| 12 | All the works played clearly displayed this facet , especially the first two Alternances for wind quintet and Scherzo da Fantasia III for violin and cello . |
| 13 | As O'Grady and Kyle went down the 8th another sudden roar came from the expectant crowd waiting round the 11th . |
| 14 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 15 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 16 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |
| 17 | I was turned around and frog-marched to the last flight of stairs leading to the foyer , then thrown down the last six steps . |
| 18 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness . |
| 20 | Gerry Fitt with the full support of his party brought down the last Labour government over a decision which greatly enhanced the SDLP 's standing . |
| 21 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 22 | The government closed down the last two illegally militia-operated ports on May 15 , thereby taking full control of seaborne trade for the first time in a decade . |
| 23 | Past Bracken Hill beyond Out Brough I looked down at Bainbridge snoozing in the sun before dropping down the last half-mile to the green and the Post Office for something to still the dust . |
| 24 | ‘ Take down the last three torches . ’ |
| 25 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 26 | This caused me to run out of aft trim i.e. I could n't take my hands off — and she did n't feel quite so rock-like and stable coming down the last few hundred feet , but the resulting touchdown was smoother and shorter . |
| 27 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |
| 28 | Hurriedly , she jotted down the last few words , and started back out , but it was too late . |
| 29 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 30 | Write down the next two lines of a pattern of the bottom of the opposite page . |