Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a small silence ; then Jennifer asked a question about one of the meetings listed for next week in the area . |
| 2 | A two storey building linked by a bridge to the main building , and which incorporated the Library was substantially modified to provide a Modern Languages Suite situated at First Floor Level , with additional Classrooms and Offices , located on the Ground Floor . |
| 3 | It read : ‘ Not only is debt partly responsible for the slump in commodity prices ; it also devours the money earned by Third World exports . |
| 4 | After last week 's boat debacle , the tale takes a stranger twist with a mysterious telephone advert placed in last week 's NME asking ‘ Who 's Taking The Pistols ? ’ |
| 5 | Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level . |
| 6 | Primary sources provide data gathered at first hand ; that is to say , they are original sets of data produced by the people who collected them . |
| 7 | It must be stressed that one should not rely on the proposition that the grounds of fault contained within third party correspondence are exhaustive . |
| 8 | However , BWD Rensburg , the broker , is looking for pre-tax profits of about £1.2m in the year ending 31 March against £1.04m reported for last year . |
| 9 | He was the latest in a long line of seasoned golfers to contract the yips and as a direct result slumped to 51st place on the Order of Merit . |
| 10 | The branch is still reeling from the losses suffered at last year 's polls . |
| 11 | There is an excellent chapter ‘ Must I exercise ? ’ which boasts a complimentary piece written from first hand experience , on the Medau method . |
| 12 | Edwards describes the behaviour of this group as " highly reminiscent of that of second language learners " , using the data from the Patois competence scores and statistical methods drawn from second language acquisition research , to arrive at an " acquisitional hierarchy " for British black speakers . |
| 13 | They are contrasted with secondary sources , which are data got at second hand ; i.e. sets of data culled from other people 's original data . |
| 14 | Davy 's experiments are often cited as a classic example of the methods used in 19th century physics and chemistry research . |
| 15 | It is to be noted that in the most recent quarter , although auction sales were 15% up on the previous quarter , the higher loss compared to last year reflects a $7 million drop in sales from the Acquavella deal , now a separate division within Sotheby 's although included in the accounts as part of their auction operations . |
| 16 | Pardon refused after First World War executions |
| 17 | The only significant association was an increased risk of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma associated with first pregnancy . |
| 18 | In respect of the Cossacks , Robertson was simply giving authorization to Eighth Army to carry out a course of action suggested by Eighth Army and " recommended by Macmillan " . |
| 19 | After the long drive up from Egypt , the various parties assembled at Eighth Army Headquarters at Bouerat . |
| 20 | Yet in all save one of the cases decided at first instance , the court has held that the surety covenant does not touch and concern the land … |
| 21 | In North Division moved into second place with a 24–12 win Hartlepool whose outstanding player , full back Marty Saunders , scored a consolation try , Alan Calvert adding the conversion and two penalties . |
| 22 | The Egyptian theme was taken up y the caterers — dressed in costumes designed for last sumnmer 's Earl 's Court production of ’ Aida ’ . |
| 23 | Work presented at last summer 's high-energy physics conference in Paris gave an upper limit of 2.25 x 10 31 years for a proton decaying into a positron and a . |
| 24 | ‘ They did , Michael , but they also liked the fact that our cellars connected with next door , which connected with next door to that , which I believe led out to the East River . ’ |
| 25 | We saw that the combinatorial explosion of hypotheses produced by breadth-first search could be limited by cutting down the depth or the branching factor of the search space , and we described two general methods of doing this : — |
| 26 | SOTHEBY 'S is to auction an icon used in 18th century Russia to assist women in childbirth . |
| 27 | The world 's population tops five billion.The prices of the commodities exported by Third World countries , which have declined throughout the 1980s , reach their lowest level of the decade , at around 65 per cent of their average value in the 1970s . |
| 28 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 29 | The 1993 LIBF had a distinctly European feel : the number of overseas visitors compared with last year rose from 1,868 to 2,462 , an increase of 32% . |
| 30 | In Taormina , the Corso Umberto — the town 's main thoroughfare — caters to all fashionable tastes , and the winding back streets offer a range of shops with specialities which range from delicately embroidered blouses which may be made to measure , colourful pottery and terracotta statuettes dressed in 18th century costumes . |