Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke of Bedford was appointed Grand Visitor and Samuel Whitbread the Second became Perpetual President . |
| 2 | The second involved 15 Squadron Washington WF533 which was being flown by Ken White 's crew , with F/L Rust as captain . |
| 3 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 4 | The second came seven minutes later . |
| 5 | The second surveyed 1,500 individuals of whom half were participants in the old Job Training Scheme and the rest were a matched sample by a broad set of labour market characteristics . |
| 6 | The second excommunicated all clergy who did homage to laymen for ecclesiastical possessions , as well as those who associated with them afterwards . |
| 7 | His second followed good work on the right wing by Kelly , he played it infield to Hodge , who passed it along the ground to forresters feet … in the same sort of position as white for the 2nd goal … except facing the touchline . |
| 8 | The first was to be run on strictly business lines , while the second needed financial support . |
| 9 | 1988 ) included 77 men who had been disabled for up to 15 years and the second included 42 men and 10 women disabled between 20 and 50 years ( Zarb et al . , |
| 10 | Both robbers were white and aged about 17 , one about 5ft 9in tall and was wearing a mustard or gold baseball-type jacket , which was either woollen or fleecy , the second wore dark clothing . |
| 11 | It all came down to the last throw the lady who came second had three houses on Park Lane and Mayfair but I threw an 11 and sailed right past ! ’ |
| 12 | Thatched roof , two storeys , the second had more mullion windows hunched inside the thatch . |
| 13 | Batterbee and his team tested six hypotheses with unimpeachable rigour : the first was that Scotland 's lakes were naturally acid and had not changed ; the second was that acidification was slow and pre-industrial ; the third blamed changes in burning or grazing ; the fourth implicated just conifer planting , and the fifth , decreased agricultural liming ; only the sixth implicated acid deposition from the combustion of fossil fuels . |
| 14 | A fourth died 61 months after orthotopic transplantation of carcinoma of the lung . |
| 15 | I remember these houses well , because in the first lived two school-friends , Ron and Reg Bruton . |
| 16 | It was the demagogues of Ancient Rome who first made proper government impossible . |
| 17 | When Mr Roach first made this point in late 1988 , many economists thought he was being too sanguine . |
| 18 | Under the plan some 50 missiles would be transferred from the launch silos in Wyoming ( the seventh designated MX location ) to 25 new trains , which would be kept at the seven bases for deployment on the public rail system in time of crisis . |
| 19 | One study found that nearly two thirds of patients had had their incontinence for over two years before they first sought professional advice . |
| 20 | After a decade in office Mrs Thatcher was still an exception to this trend and was as popular as when she first became Prime Minister . |
| 21 | It seemed they would only be remembered for the effervescent day-glo Sixties pop which took popular root in Manhattan 's late Seventies downtown scene , where the songs Rock Lobster and Planet Claire first became free-spirited party anthems . |
| 22 | Guadeloupe and Martinique first became French possessions in 1635 . |
| 23 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive schoolwhich now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schools will finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
| 24 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive school which now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schoolswill finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
| 25 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 26 | When I first met these ideas , I was reluctant to accept them , because they seemed to suggest that our knowledge of the world is more unreliable than I would like to think . |
| 27 | Their new appointments will reunite Mark Baker and Bruce Lack , who first met several years ago on a training ship . |
| 28 | He told delegates he believed the case for strong trade unions was as compelling now as it was when the TUC first met 125 years ago , ‘ or ever has been in the history of our country . ’ |
| 29 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
| 30 | The sapphire and diamond ring , first revealed this week in TODAY , and the gold wedding band had their origins in a far humbler place — her own studio in the quiet cathedral city of Winchester , Hants . |