Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as the now-famous story purports , the evening after Nation had instructed his agent to say no to the Doctor Who offer , he and Tony Hancock had a serious disagreement , resulting in the writer catching the first train back to London the following morning , with no work , and a central heating system in his flat to pay for . |
| 2 | In the chaos following the Second World War the travel agent had some extraordinary assignments . |
| 3 | If such an advance is realized , it represents one more step in a progression in which the antidiscipline , that is , the field treating the next level of organization below the one under scrutiny , is partly replaced by the synthetic enterprise to which it gave rigour and impetus ( Wilson , 1977 ) . |
| 4 | It was only when everyone was thinking of bed and Jean and Tina had gone off to give their respective babies their last feeds and Hilda was in the kitchen clearing the last of the dishes , that Bruce said , ‘ Would anyone like a nightcap ? ’ |
| 5 | His is the only war grave in the churchyard adjoining the 11th century church at Colleville-sur-Mer . |
| 6 | He was just out there on the Strip telling the first lady how he wants to get to know her , and the second , and hoping out loud that both of them do n't mind about the third : ‘ Because I want to get to know her , too . |
| 7 | The construct lacking the first intron hypersensitive sites was prepared by deleting a 1kb BalI-StuI fragment from the first intron of the -300bp construct . |
| 8 | Only two out of 15 well-known media pundits , whose outspoken role in the campaign Bush has ridiculed , have staked their reputation on the President winning a second term . |
| 9 | In the kitchens women bakers seethed as they watched their male colleagues lift dough trays into the ovens , the lifting warranting a third more pay than the women . |
| 10 | He smiled at her again later when she was up at the bar ordering a second round for her and Natasha , as he and his friends were standing further along the bar . |
| 11 | After he is wounded in this staged hunt , perhaps she could be seen to nurse him daily with iodine and mercurochrome , out of remorse , but in the process establishing the first physical contact . |
| 12 | Hudson , 93 at the interval , soon became the first batsman to score a century on Test debut for South Africa — Wessels had achieved the feat for Australia — and he prevailed over the partnership that carried South Africa to within eight of the lead entering the third day . |
| 13 | It opens with the words for the period ending the third of December nineteen ninety one . |
| 14 | This factor of material prosperity , which was already cited by Sombart ( 1906 ) at the beginning of this century as a partial explanation of the absence of any large-scale socialist movement in the US , acquired particularly great importance in the period following the Second World War , when economic growth took place more rapidly than ever before , and the question could be posed as to whether the US did not simply show to capitalist Europe the image of its own future — a future that would be characterized by a decline of the socialist movement , and indeed of all ideological revolutionary parties and movements . |
| 15 | In the twentieth century , and especially in the period following the Second World War , nationalist movements generally took the form of independence struggles against imperialist rule by European powers , or against less direct types of control which create a situation of dependency . |
| 16 | Contemporary idealism , however , dates from the period following the First World War when , partly as a reaction to the horrors of the war , it briefly achieved prominence as an approach to global politics , influencing academics and politicians . |
| 17 | Having talked to the person making the eighteenth birthday cake about our individual requirements , we chose some suitable flowers to fit a small silver vase that was placed on top of the cake , and once the guests had gone I hurried them into the presses I had taken with me to the party . |
| 18 | This involves the court ordering a third party who owes your debtor money to pay that money into court instead of to your debtor . |
| 19 | During downward fluctuations in demand ( which give rise to recessionary economic conditions ) , the organisation supplying the next or final customer will reduce his production and inventory levels , as demand for his product declines . |
| 20 | This work , now destroyed or altered , was remarkably innovative , the architect creating the first great baroque ensemble in England , combining architecture , carving ( by Grinling Gibbons , q.v. ) , and painting ( by Antonio Verrio , q.v. ) in a grand and sumptuous suite of staterooms . |
| 21 | In the diary covering the last four years of his life there is little mention of books , but he had brought out an edition of Aristophanes ' ‘ Plutus ’ and ‘ Clouds ’ in 1767 . |
| 22 | At birth a child enters the condition of infancy — a condition which ceases at the age of 18 years , or rather , at the first moment of the day preceding the eighteenth birthday . |
| 23 | Now come and meet Heather ; she 's in the dining-room having a last word with the catering people . ’ |
| 24 | As the Captain commanding the 3rd Squadron came into the dining hall , we stood to attention to sing a slow lament called ‘ Souvenir qui Passe ’ , before sitting down to eat . |
| 25 | No I 'll tell you when the next course is for erm schools seventh the week commencing the seventh of February . |
| 26 | The ‘ stade ’ is the fishermen 's beach with its colourful jumble of fishing boats ( or luggers ) pulled up onto the shingle awaiting the next tide . |
| 27 | Many new members of an audience have been known to object to the applause greeting the last bow . |
| 28 | The second part of this procedure ( 8.2 Archiving ) will be carried out between 08.00 and 08.30 on the morning following the first part of the procedure . |
| 29 | The exhibition commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Blumenthal 's death includes fifty-two reliefs and sculptures executed between 1927 and 1940 and numerous drawings and sketches ( from 8 October until 18 November ) . |
| 30 | the train taking the last corner |