Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | She found him a ‘ rather stern-featured man ’ , with a strong Northumbrian accent and seems to have preferred the ‘ Rocket ’ which she described as ‘ This snorting little animal , which I felt inclined to pat … ’ and so ranks among the first to fall under the spell of the steam locomotive . |
2 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
3 | So desperate has the tribe 's situation become that the government Indian foundation FUNAI is attempting to contact all the remaining uncontacted Awa , an action it only takes as a last resort . |
4 | If you put something like N H and then O H four well the convention is that when it 's a suffix stuff a subscript and a suffix below the line there and just after it , it only applies to the last element . |
5 | This project is a study of the origins of international trade disputes in manufactures since the nineteenth century . |
6 | And then it just says on the next page , ‘ Fagg angle ’ . ’ |
7 | For all her action-seeking , caring cosmopolitanism , she is imperial-insular in outlook , and soon sees through the Third World . |
8 | The tonic accent normally falls on the last item , but this does not tell us where the given element ends and the new one begins . |
9 | Consider Best Bars as a first resort , regard the single cocktail you 'll shell out for as sheer investment , get yourself gift wrapped , send for our jetset silklook shirt , rid yourself of even that inch-of-pinch and the body beautiful will be guaranteed bait for ace race driver or millionaire financier in advanced stages of senility . |
10 | Second stage recovery generally begins in the third year . |
11 | The frequency of intercourse approximately halves in the first year of marriage but takes about 20 years to halve again . |
12 | It always goes onto the next number . |
13 | I went this year , during the town 's autumn festival , which always starts on the last Friday of August and lasts for 10 days . |
14 | The earliest record for spring arrival is of one at Chidham on 23 March 1971 , but arrival always starts in the first 10 days of April , and some movement continues to mid-June . |
15 | Flowering usually starts in the second year , with one flower head — the edible part — at the end of each shoot . |
16 | The change usually occurs on the first beat of a bar or phrase , which eliminates any fussiness when the footwork is intricate . |
17 | The next phase , the anal phase , usually occurs during the second year of the child 's life . |
18 | And it usually leads to the second thing which is to give some testimony . |
19 | I would expect further cuts over the next couple of months . |
20 | Wall fabric always sounds like the last word in luxury but in fact need not cost much . |
21 | As an added deterrent , this species usually waits until the last moment for the final clamping-down movement . |
22 | My friend Mike with the big house has n't phoned in yet has he either he usually phones in the last part of the programme . |
23 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
24 | The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page . |
25 | There is no time limit on the patient 's capacity for physical recovery , although an experienced physiotherapist usually knows within the first few weeks of starting treatment how quick or slow a hemiplegic patient 's physical recovery is likely to be . |
26 | It also points to a third limitation within the sources ; that of genre . |
27 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
28 | It clearly ranks as the first written literature of any consequence . |
29 | If the position is correct then control automatically passes to the next option . |
30 | The current study clearly shows for the first time that PT-gliadin and/or fragments are intracellulary present in normal enterocytes after exposure . |