Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Owners complain about low prize money but there is no point in our executive putting up £25,000 with prize money down to fourth for a non-sponsored race if they wo n't support it . |
| 2 | Having lacked the opportunity to create a new constitutional framework afresh from first principles , Britain now stands out as one of the few nations lacking such a document . |
| 3 | He tore his mouth away at last to rub his cheek against her untidy hair as he crushed her against his chest . |
| 4 | Centre-forward Tom White was Manager Bert Head 's primary target at Pittodrie , but he brought John McCormick back with him as well from the Granite City for a mere £1,500 — and it was the craggy defender who became such a staunch and resolute pillar of Palace rearguards and helped guide the club through to 1st Division security . |
| 5 | This absence of feudal social and political structure prior to the onset of industrialisation has been held to help account for US ‘ exceptionalism ’ , in the form of a weakened socialist consciousness and the lack of strong political Party-union ties , although there are undoubtedly other important factors as well , including the scarcity of manpower and ample employment opportunities for skilled workers , which militated against challenge along political and ideological lines ; a complex ethnic ( immigrant ) labour force composition and racial cleavage , which impeded collective action on a class basis ; and a political and constitutional structure that discouraged the setting up of third parties ( Lipset , 1977 ) . |
| 6 | The XJ-Two Twenty , which costs almost half a million pounds was being test driven by a motoring journalist , when he accidentally changed down to first gear instead of third while travelling at NINETY miles an hour.It 'll need about twenty thousand pounds to mend the broken car … the driver 's wounded pride may take a little more work . |
| 7 | It then adjusts the engine speed accordingly via second throttle . |
| 8 | The complete absence of information makes it very difficult to uncover the processes of change which may have been at work among the peoples north and south of the Trent during the reign of Eadwine , but it is inconceivable that Eadwine was able to extend his hegemony southwards without first achieving domination of the Mercians . |
| 9 | Attempts will be made to tag a Proposition ( referendum ) rejecting the Plan on to next year 's congressional and state elections . |
| 10 | The tie lines are so congested it is n't true , especially with accounts being at Stansted and apparently there has been a proposal in since last March with all the costings and everything which is still waiting on an answer for improved lines which would actually take some of the computer lines and everything . |
| 11 | They might think to themselves , what is the most important thing for us to home in on first of all ? |
| 12 | Sumawe , who had a previous best of 2:15:26 and was an early Berlin pacemaker until a lace came loose , was then overhauled by the Soviet Muhamed Hamat Nazipov ( 2:14:04 and $9000 ) and Mohammed Salmi , an Algerian run over in last year 's race ( 2:14:19/$7000 ) but the Tanzanian 's 2:14:22 was also inside Jan Hurak 's previous 2:14:30 record . |
| 13 | What the evidence does show is that , even in an area where a traditional Mercian involvement was sustained , relations with Offa were not hostile and Mercian influence not at first particularly oppressive . |
| 14 | I always try to read the question calmly at first , because I hope that if I read them slowly enough the words will , in some miraculous way , make sense to me . |
| 15 | The 28-year-old mechanical engineer 's fortunes took a dramatic twist midway through last season when his career hit rock bottom . |
| 16 | It may help him to take his wheelchair out at first : pushing it may help him to balance more easily . |
| 17 | John Whitaker came closest to him , just 0.8 of a second behind on Next Milton , with David Broome a whisker behind on Queensway Lannegan . |
| 18 | Greyabbey 's Dickie Curran came in one second behind in third with European championship contender John McAllister from Strabane coming in a well deserved fourth . |
| 19 | The Goldsmiths confirmed Chorleton 's re-appointment formally on 19th May 1557 , when they acknowledged that he had actually been in office since the previous Lady Day . |
| 20 | Keith Penny was first Vet home in seventh place overall 50:16 , while wife Glynis won the women 's race outright in 56:25 . |
| 21 | Depositors are issued with cheque books which enable them to spend the money directly without first having to go to the bank and draw the money out in cash . |
| 22 | hill only in first gear . |
| 23 | Note : The said sum of £240 is made up of £180 allowed from arrears of rent charge down to 24th October 1895 , and £60 for two years arrears at £30 per annum down to 24th October 1897 . |
| 24 | @FIRSTPARA = Black children acquiring Creole may be going through a process not of second language acquisition but of new dialect acquisition . |
| 25 | And then Gemma had that big job up for next week rang today to say |
| 26 | The million-hour award covered a two-year period up to last November , while the RoSPA bronze was for safety performance during 1992 . |
| 27 | European Cup Winners Cup holders Werder Bremen , who beat Nuremberg 3-0 on Friday , are a further point behind in third . |
| 28 | Isabel had told her , unable to deny herself the relief of letting the truth out at last . |
| 29 | Before it happened I had reached a point where at last I was earning enough money to make things a little bit easier , and then suddenly I found myself having to start all over again with wrecked finances , a new relationship and living in digs . |
| 30 | Often schoolchildren aged in their early teens , who struggle through a reading test with a 15 per cent error rate , reduce errors to 2 per cent and increase confidence visibly on first meeting a rule-based spelling . |