Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day . |
| 2 | You trust the judgement of a man whos been proven right over the last 5 years . |
| 3 | Believe it or not , the society has now been in existence for a year and subscriptions became due on the 16th of March . |
| 4 | and then when you get the to the end of it all you sa you say and they sell that for an eighth of a price that you charge for your bloody beer ! |
| 5 | As regards the cost implications of these shifts , although the over-85s are heavier users of costly services than younger age groups , the heaviest financial cost of the elderly arises from pensions not from services and , to repeat , the total pensionable age group will remain stable for the next two decades . |
| 6 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 7 | Now it was replaced by an administrative , legal , and organizational unity , which first became possible in the twelfth century as a result of the development of the administrative , legal and scholastic instruments of government . |
| 8 | We 'll cover that in the next bit of the agenda . |
| 9 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 10 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 11 | And he could have been back in the locker room even quicker had he served out for the match when he led 5–2 in the second set . |
| 12 | If there is a tail of two or more syllables , the normal pitch movement is for the pitch to fall on the tonic syllable and to remain low until the last stressed syllable in the tail . |
| 13 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |
| 14 | This is more prominent in the early stages of the diarrhoeal illness , and returns to near normal by the fourth day , by which time the faecal weights are coming down . |
| 15 | Bangor led 1-0 with a ninth minute goal from Johnny Magee after fullback Mickey McKeown failed to clear . |
| 16 | Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth . |
| 17 | The Soviets , as shown by declining equipment orders since 1976 , have themselves become more careful in weighing the balance , and have lost much of their earlier enthusiasm , as Brezhnev made clear to the Twenty-Sixth Party Congress of 1981 : |
| 18 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 19 | No matter how bad the weather , you can always find some sheltered stretches , and there is normally the bonus of seeing some of the first swallows and martins of the year as well . |
| 20 | Wallace got another in the second half to make the final score 2–0 , bring the car in future boys . |
| 21 | This invention turned out to be ahead of its time ; U-shaped grooves remained normal until 1939 , and Packman-type cutters only became universal after the Second World War . |
| 22 | An art shop in the city of London sold four cotton based portfolios in the first week and doubled this in the second . |
| 23 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 24 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 25 | It is tempting to see this as the first occasion when the judges insisted on independence on this principle . |
| 26 | It is easy to see this in the nineteenth century because the development of local government reflected economic organization and the political processes which derived from it . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |
| 28 | His bid started to go wrong at the 12th hole and spluttered out at the 17th , the Road Hole , where many an aspiration had been snuffed out in the past . |
| 29 | I actually first realised this at the second year , that when I was looking for the , the previous year , I noticed that in July the business went and I thought , because everybody 's gone on holiday . |
| 30 | Council goes public for the first time |