Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 2 | But certainly at the moment , erm and at least until presumably the next general election , erm nobody can see much light at the end of that tunnel . |
| 3 | I board the plane feeling no pain , eat the evening meal and continue with the G&T theme , land in Gatwick and make the connection via the smoking area of the bar and another gulped Gordon 's , then pass on the second offered dinner but not the accompanying booze and quietly pass out somewhere over the West Midlands , to be woken by a dishy blonde with an impudent , dimpled smile and we 're here we 've landed we 've arrived , we 're on the stand at the airport and I 'd ask her what she 's doing later because I 'm drunk enough to not care when she says ‘ No ’ as she probably will , but I know I 'm too tired and besides my left eyelid 's stuck again and I suspect it makes me look a bit like Quasimodo , so I do n't say anything except , ‘ Uh , thanks , ’ which is cool or sad , I 'm not sure which . |
| 4 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness . |
| 6 | Gerry Fitt with the full support of his party brought down the last Labour government over a decision which greatly enhanced the SDLP 's standing . |
| 7 | Was this , perhaps the first 5-point try scored in this country ? |
| 8 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 9 | Perhaps the first significant initiative came from France , although the Dutch politician , Sicco Mansholt , had already drafted a plan for agricultural free trade that would benefit Western Europe as a whole , but especially the cost-effective Netherlands agricultural industry . |
| 10 | But if Charles was the first Carolingian , and perhaps the first medieval king , to show an insider 's appreciation of contemporary scholarship , he had ( directly or indirectly ) his mother to thank . |
| 11 | Baldwin was perhaps the last Prime Minister to treat his Cabinet colleagues , as Gladstone had done , as members of a college of cardinals . |
| 12 | In 1932 it had captured international headlines when the church was attacked by a mob of evangelical bigots who went to work with sledgehammers , wrecking altars and destroying ornaments of which they disapproved ; perhaps the last violent twitch of the Puritan tail on English soil . |
| 13 | Perhaps the last feeble kick of this lust to print one 's name was the station platform and amusement arcade machine where , on inserting a penny , one was able to punch one 's name on a metal strip , which the contraption disgorged on the pull of a handle . |
| 14 | The next leader of the Labour Party , perhaps the next Prime Minister , could be the lad from Fairfield Terrace , Trimdon . |
| 15 | Indeed , the development of a set of assessment procedures which integrate structural , semantic and functional descriptions of language is perhaps the next major focus for clinical research . |
| 16 | Perhaps the next major project will be breeding , after growing on several of one species ! |
| 17 | So the first overseas brewery was built at Park Royal , London , in 1936 . |
| 18 | So the first hopeful sign of realignment coming out of Labour 's leadership election was when Bryan Gould espoused devaluation — and the first disappointment was how rapidly he retreated when John Smith 's camp let it be known that , in their eyes , this disqualified Bryan as deputy leader . |
| 19 | And so the 29th National Championship Air Races at Reno were started . |
| 20 | So the next logical step is to take a look at how to install , run and remove applications from Windows . |
| 21 | ‘ Here , ’ said Stephen Brandt to life , walking down the Strand at eleven o'clock the next dampish morning and moving his lips without a sound . |
| 22 | On the other hand , Preobrazhensky 's law of primitive socialist accumulation is merely the next logical step , or steps , based upon the premise of the conscious decision to build a socialist economy . |
| 23 | The by-election swing from Conservative to Labour of 21 per cent was the largest such since 1935 , and the result represented only the 13th Labour by-election gain from the Conservatives since 1945 ( the most recent being the Vale of Glamorgan in May 1989 — see p. 36740 ) . |
| 24 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 25 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 26 | ‘ It was only the second long distance walk I 've tackled , and very different from the first . |
| 27 | As only the second Asian MP in Parliament it is anyone 's guess how that issue will affect the voting this time in this traditionally ‘ conservative ’ area . |
| 28 | It will also be only the second significant merger the industry has yet seen . |
| 29 | On June 6th , only the second royal tram ride in Blackpool 's century of trams , took place when Princess Alice , Duchess of Gloucester rode from Starr Gate to North Pier on board car 40 . |
| 30 | FORMER Worcestershire captain Phil Neale is set to become only the fifth honorary life member of the club at the county 's annual meeting in February . |