Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 2 | In the second Test at Port-of-Spain , he duly became the third ‘ W ’ , Weekes and Walcott having already made their debuts , and scored 97 and 28 not out . |
| 3 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 4 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 5 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 6 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 7 | Having successfully completed the first year of the new Teachers ' Training Course the students have gone away to grapple with their holiday assignments . |
| 8 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 9 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 10 | He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) . |
| 11 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 12 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 13 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 14 | The Postgraduate Diploma in Biotechnology may be taken by successfully completing the first year and a literature project . |
| 15 | First of all , take a pat on the back for successfully completing the first four weeks of the diet . |
| 16 | By comparison with his three immediate predecessors — Kilwardby , Pecham and Winchelsey — he may well appear near illiterate , and , except for Hubert Walter in the 1190s , he was the first archbishop to combine the primacy with the chancellorship of the realm , which tended rather to compromise the first than the second office . |
| 17 | The RAF Squadron which claims to have accidently dropped the first bomb on Nazi Germany , has reached the final day in its long history . |
| 18 | We continued talking for well over an hour , duly keeping the next appointment waiting . |
| 19 | The cork popped and Willi skilfully caught the first fountain in a glass . |
| 20 | On Jan. 25 , 1990 , Bhutto gave birth to a daughter ( thereby becoming the first head of government to give birth while in office ) ; the withdrawal of the Prime Minister from public life during the latter months of her pregnancy increased the aura of indecisiveness surrounding the government , particularly as the Cabinet had offered its resignation in mid-November ( see p. 37043 ) . |
| 21 | Harue Kitamura was elected mayor of Ashiya , in the southern prefecture of Hyogo , thereby becoming the first Japanese woman to hold such a post . |
| 22 | Doi , 62 , had been elected leader of the SDPJ ( then named the Japan Socialist Party — see below ) in 1986 , thereby becoming the first woman in Japan to head a major political party . |
| 23 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
| 24 | ‘ For two years I lived with a girl named Susan , who I wrote ‘ Medicine Bottle ’ ( 'Down Colorful Hill ’ 's harrowing stand-out ) about , ’ he says , circuitously explaining the next album . |
| 25 | In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly , and herein lies the first problem for the researcher . |
| 26 | She fussed , gave advice which she laughingly contradicted the next minute , and talked enthusiastically about the business she had just initiated . |
| 27 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
| 28 | Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later . |
| 29 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 30 | These have understandably been strained by the collapse of BZW 's profits to £5m last year , as well as by the £110m the bank had to pay last November to buy out most of the 200 former partners who together owned a fifth of the investment firm . |