Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Second Vatican Council she had even been removed from the Universal Canon , by ignorant prelates who — full of their scientific and rationalist approach to the institutions of sanctity — insisted she had never existed . |
| 2 | Benny had elected to carry only a revolver , though she had tucked a couple of grenades in the pockets of a second safari jacket she had pilfered from the TARDIS 's wardrobe . |
| 3 | If they want Second Division football they should support us now . |
| 4 | After the second escape attempt they were beaten again and flung into the blackness of stone-floored isolation cells in the nearby fort at An Dap . |
| 5 | For the second Test running we were treated to the sight of a batsman in plaster coming out to help a colleague reach his hundred , and both were successful . |
| 6 | The average revenue per partner in a big firm is £960,000 , while in a second tier firm it is £390,000 . |
| 7 | His loyal and seemingly very level-headed wife Nesta says of the second sex scandal he has been involved in during their marriage : |
| 8 | Under Field Marshal , the Viscount , Alanbrooke 's chairmanship during the Second World War they were the Government 's most powerful advisers . |
| 9 | Nineteenth-century Boulton and Watt , Maudsley and Harvey beam engines are here , where until the end of the Second World War they supplied water to west London . |
| 10 | After the Second World War they began to support African nationalism . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ In the Second World War they would have been branded as lacking in moral fibre and been shunned by their service colleagues . |
| 12 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 13 | After the second World War they did n't have a economy in the second World War , now they have |
| 14 | If you lived through the second world war you 'll recognise the sound of the air raid bell . |
| 15 | It 's only since the Second World War I think that a few nations , especially the , the , the highly socialist ones with a strong erm directed policy of sports , in sports and education , have begun to put an amount of effort into sports training which the less socialistic and less state concentrated countries like our own have found a , a bit offensive . |
| 16 | At the end of the Second World War she spent six months touring concentration camps in Europe , with a programme of Yiddish songs and sketches , and met hundreds of survivors of Hitler 's persecution . |
| 17 | During the Second World War she worked indefatigably for charities such as the Red Cross , which packed parcels for prisoners of war , made medical dressings for the wounded and provided canteens for the serving men and women . |
| 18 | The brewery used horse-drawn drays for beer deliveries in and around the East End , and during the Second World War it was hit hard when a German land mine damaged the brewery stables , killing and injuring many of the horses . |
| 19 | In the Second World War it was Chiang Kai-shek 's lifeline . |
| 20 | From 1935 to the Second World War it was their leaders who assumed the office of Prime Minister . |
| 21 | After the Second World War it broadened to include all boys ' schools . |
| 22 | Since the Second World War it has all been downhill . |
| 23 | In the Second World War it was protected by the government which , in order to preserve part of the national heritage , transferred a group of White Parks to the famous King Ranch in Texas , USA . |
| 24 | It has been completely eradicated from Greece since 1973 , where before the Second World War it caused an estimated one to two million cases annually . |
| 25 | It was then a University magazine but after the Second World War it became , as Nonesuch News , the student newspaper . |
| 26 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 27 | Before the Second World War it boasted a church , two chapels , a school , three shops , a post office , two joiners , two tailors , a ladies dressmaker ( specialising in high quality garments ! ) , a cobbler , a slaughter-house and butcher , a fish and chip shop and two public houses . |
| 28 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 29 | Up to the Second World War it was normal for governments to run a balanced budget . |
| 30 | If your house was built before the Second World War it may still have lead piping . |