Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now and that 's for my benefit alone okay , what that means is that I 'll see each and every one of you in a , a role play so the first person in each role play will be Robert , Barry and Gareth , followed by Gill , , followed by Bill , Roger and Vincent and Robert again you do not deviate from that order . |
| 2 | They sing the chorus together a second time . |
| 3 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 4 | As a result , they receive for their milk only a fifth of the price paid to European farmers , a third of the price paid to American farmers , and one-seventh of that paid in Japan . |
| 5 | However , in this case only the first reference to any descriptor appears in an index , while all further linkages are made from record to record ( rather as in a chain of synonyms in a direct file ) . |
| 6 | If it helps the hon. Gentleman , I shall try to wear my tie upside down the next time I am at the Dispatch Box . |
| 7 | And very quickly talking about it amongst the staff and er the other committees it would seem that it ought to have a far broader remit than just on the racing side so the first thing that I 'd like to emphasise is that this year of youth sailing is involves all the outgoing grass roots divisions of the R Y A , that is windsurfing , racing , training and the development divisions and the regions and the clubs and the recognized teaching establishments , so it really is an all encompassing er er scheme . |
| 8 | I knocked her weight down an eighth of an ounce in preparation for the next flight , but the next day the weather was too bad for flying , so I ‘ fattened ’ her up again . |
| 9 | The Basle exchange too , with a turnover only a seventh that of Zurich , may not survive in the longer term if Swiss Bank Corporation , its biggest trader , decides to pull out . |
| 10 | This surpassed Nebuchadnezzar 's original in at least one regard — whereas the Babylonian King of Kings thought it necessary to imprint his seal only every third brick used in the giant project , Saddam 's name was stamped on each brick laid in the restoration . |
| 11 | And I do n't I think it is no accident that the seconds criterion is the second criterion not the first criterion . |
| 12 | WASTE Management International , the waste disposal group recently floated in London , has returned first-quarter profits 52 p.c. higher at £27.3m on turnover up a third at £186m . |
| 13 | What I 'm suggesting really , is let's get it on the agenda for budget review whenever the next meeting is , to be considered in depth , and if that gives an extra couple or three weeks for officers to write the report , fine , if it goes beyond the next policy and resources a week or two wo n't matter in the scheme of things , it 's detailed consideration I 'm looking for , rather than a fast fix in ten minutes at the next P and R. |
| 14 | It became more of a defensive round , seldom in positions from which he could attack the hole and three-putting both the 11th and 15th . |
| 15 | The reason why I have thought it to be so definitely a first edition is usually only because the title verso states : ‘ First published 19XX ’ or some such wording , and there is no mention about a second or third impression , or , because there was a date on the title page and a blank on the title verso ; or the title verso had only the copyright date on it . |
| 16 | If the fifth batch of ten cost 80 per cent of the fourth batch then the fortieth batch would cost 80 per cent of the thirty-ninth . |
| 17 | We left Leicester and reached Royston Manor late the next afternoon . |
| 18 | He was removed from that medrese and then became muderris there a second time " with the condition that it should be included among the and that his should become in his [ proper ] time in accordance with the custom in similar medreses ' . |
| 19 | While most engineers struggle to keep their heads above water , Weir 's latest results were more than buoyant — up 26 p.c. to £34m , with new orders more than a third higher at £474m and turnover ahead a third at £424m . |
| 20 | Getting the paper work right the first time saves the customer being bothered with further questions . |
| 21 | To design any piece of audio equipment successfully the first stage is to define exactly what it is that you require and determine the circuit from this information . |
| 22 | There is a Dunning story of the Canadian who asked where Dunning was and was told that it was next to Forteviot , a village only a tenth the size of Dunning . |
| 23 | And erm and he did this sermon so the next bloke he came from Kent somewhere er he was a miner or a miner 's delegate and he could really speak you know , arms waving and all that and he was a real preacher . |
| 24 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 25 | Approximately one third of each group achieved a good degree ie a first or upper second . |
| 26 | Gooch had a bowl , but it was an hour before the next casualty , Akram sparing Salim Malik in a misunderstanding over a third run and taking himself off on the sad trek back to the redbrick pavilion . |
| 27 | Everything goes smoothly , the syndicate collecting their financial reward , until one day a man appears in the gallery where the first exhibition was held claiming to be Hopkin . |
| 28 | And the headmaster 's room was at the very end of that corridor where the fifth class was . |
| 29 | He had shot one grouse and was aiming at a second when the first bird hit him in the face at 60mph , flinging him unconscious into the heather . |
| 30 | The miraculous moment of transmutation , when lead turns into gold , as it were , can be proven to have taken place at the precise second when the first buyer hands over his American Express card to add the foreskin of the Infant Jesus or a mummified fish from the Miraculous Drought of Fishes to his collection . |