Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mike McClennan 's men have been installed as 7-2 second favourites behind Wigan , who are 4-7 on for a fourth successive title triumph . |
| 2 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 3 | after the first er effectively after the first financial period |
| 4 | After the drama of the tied first Test , Australia won the second by seven wickets and West Indies the third by 222 runs ; as the fourth neared its close , West Indies appeared to have the game in their hands , only for the last Australian pair to survive for an hour and forty minutes and earn a draw ; and the final Test was won by Australia with just two wickets left . |
| 5 | Perhaps during the next hour-long speech by the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) in Committee I will find an opportunity to do so . |
| 6 | The annual growth of world trade in 1991 slowed down for the third successive year , according to the annual report of the Director-General of GATT , issued on March 18 . |
| 7 | ‘ That was the FRG from Soltau — they 've cleared most of the tasks from last night , less a Chieftain power pack change that 's in hand and one badly bogged tank — they 're having to find a route in for a second armoured recovery vehicle , and , of course , the last Challenger pack change — how are the lads doing on those packs that came in this morning ? ’ |
| 8 | Following the narrow victory of the Dominica Freedom Party ( DFP ) in the general election of May 28 [ see pp. 37448-49 ] , Eugenia Charles was sworn in for a third consecutive five-year term as Prime Minister and in early June announced sweeping changes to her Cabinet . |
| 9 | Not long after the last regional ITV company went on air , the focus of interest shifted back to the BBC . |
| 10 | The current 300,000 youth training places in the United Kingdom compare with the lamentable 7,000 or so under the last Labour Government . |
| 11 | The boys and their uneasy pastor were moving tidily enough into the first green enclosure which must be the frigidarium of the baths , emerging in little , bulbous groups from between the broken walls of the entrance . |
| 12 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 13 | He looked back to the road where yet more French cavalry had appeared , and he knew it could not be long before the first French eight-pounder cannon arrived . |
| 14 | My house faces southwest and over the years and especially in the last recent abnormally hot summers , the panels in the front door have undergone considerable shrinkage . |
| 15 | Banks — in Belfast last week to give a reading from ‘ Complicity ’ ( Little Brown , £15.99 ) — has once again struck gold with a psychological thriller that draws the reader in from the first grisly murder on page one . |
| 16 | He introduced Whitlock and Sabrina to Bailey who then sat down on the second black leather sofa and took a cigar from his pocket . |
| 17 | Lambert nursed his coughing , shaking aircraft back to the field and thankfully touched down on the first available yard of turf . |
| 18 | Others , conscious that they were eating the equivalent of a diamond brooch or a sapphire pendant , sat down to a last giddy meal eating before the Collector could get his hands on it , all at once , what they had hoarded for weeks . |
| 19 | She knew because she felt the same herself , the whole damn lot of it , down to the last small detail . |
| 20 | She would pester him until she got exactly what she wanted , down to the last painted fan and embroidered reticule . |
| 21 | Obviously the pieces gradually reduce in size but I do find that I can work with even very small pieces , as they stay whole and workable down to the last tiny fragment . |
| 22 | Me , I manage British Rail 's timetable , down to the last 66-minute hour . |
| 23 | Yet the resemblance of a modern stick insect to a stick is marvellously good , down to the last fine details of fake buds and leaf-scars . |
| 24 | She had run the country for 11 years ; and he had coasted along to a fourth Conservative victory on the back of her achievements . |
| 25 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 26 | SERB forces were last night closing in on the last Muslim-held stronghold in eastern Bosnia , battling at close range with defenders of Gorazde . |
| 27 | Glorious views open up across the Inner Sound to Skye and smaller islands ; road and railway jostle together on the last exciting mile to Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 28 | But the other half wanted the day to go on forever , for Penry to drive at a snail 's pace on the way back to prolong their time together to the last possible minute . |
| 29 | It is usual to make specific provision for service of such notices , eg at the last known home address of a partner , in a way that will afford evidence that it has been duly given ( eg by registered delivery , entry in the firm 's post book etc ) . |
| 30 | You do n't get better down at the First Spiritualist Church . |