Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ German unity depends first of all on the German people … and France will not be against it . |
| 2 | And the old caretaker lives next door , so he feeds them and mucks out . |
| 3 | A public inquiry begins next month into the National Grid Company 's plan to build overhead power lines from Lackenby on Teesside to Shipton , near York . |
| 4 | Popular opinion believes NeXT is doomed and that Jobs should just can it . |
| 5 | THERE was no reprieve for the Scottish Pipe Bands last Saturday , as Field Marshal Montgomery , under the leadership of Richard and Gordon Parkes , claimed the premier prize of the Cowal Championships — the gigantic Argyll Shield — and the accolade of Overseas Champion of Champions . |
| 6 | O'Connor had had sentence deferred for psychiatric and social background reports last month . |
| 7 | High technology helps Third World farmers |
| 8 | For those who are dissatisfied with housework , a statement of this feeling is problematic because the break between socially acceptable behaviour and individual experience has first to be made . |
| 9 | Effective lost insulation comes next in the cost-effectiveness stakes . |
| 10 | Keen investors pumped more than £2,260 million into Personal Equity Plans last year — taking the total invested since the scheme was lauched in January 1987 to more than £6 billion . |
| 11 | UK civil service holds first joint environmental meeting |
| 12 | Sow antirrhinums , calendulas , clarkias , cornflowers and nemesias to be ready for early summer displays next year . |
| 13 | Gullit 's lucrative contract expires next month and he has yet to agree another one . |
| 14 | Modifying Freud 's understanding of the human agent means first that he is trying to understand the attempt of human beings to place some order on to the natural and social world under conditions of ‘ time-space distantiation ’ . |
| 15 | Most newspapers have simply reflected the public adulation ‘ Unique Figure Fascinates Eleventh Telegraph Literary Luncheon ’ was the nine-column headline in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph She was its star … she captivated the 330-strong audience with her simple charm . |
| 16 | However , every Halls-run concert has first to surmount the hurdle of gaining sponsorship or underwriting . |
| 17 | A tendon injury in her left hand makes last year 's winner Marie-Laure de Lorenzi , from France , an absentee this week , while Alison Nicholas , the 1987 winner , who is at the qualifying school in America , is also missing . |
| 18 | Chief executive Neil Arnold said the shortfall in profits was due to the Co-op 's ambitious expansion plans last year . |
| 19 | This can be represented by a quasi-chemical process where the formation of a solvent-polymer contact requires first the breaking of ( 1–1 ) and ( 2–2 ) contacts , and can be expressed as an interchange energy AΔΕ 12 per contact , given by |
| 20 | ADVANCED MICRO SEEKS SECOND SOURCE FOR ITS Am486 PARTS |
| 21 | The half-year course begins next month and offers tuition on counselling skills , while concentrating on issues relevant to working with cancer sufferers . |
| 22 | Pressman , understudy to Wednesday 's England keeper Chris Woods , looks certain to quit Hillsborough anyway when his present deal expires next summer . |
| 23 | Environmental Audit Completes First Phase |
| 24 | New gallery of Egyptian art holds first exhibition with an unpublished head of Tutankhamun |
| 25 | The present paper looks first at the general context of the discussions within Ashdown School and then outlines some of the issues that emerged from the research . |
| 26 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 27 | Once you get in the habit of really noticing what you eat , and expecting from the restaurants the same care for quality and ‘ real food ’ value you try to achieve at home , making the healthy choice becomes second nature . |
| 28 | CHELSEA coach Don Howe was taken into hospital for precautionary chest checks last night . |
| 29 | Coverage for an initial eight-month experiment starts next month alongside the introduction of cameras to Parliament . |
| 30 | Also , the philosophy underlying the NHS 's information strategy is that clinical information comes first . |