Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 2 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 3 | But when your father has been murdered the day you make only the fourth televised maximum break , when you win your first major title and receive a hero 's reception on returning to your native land , even the prospect of meeting Hendry is going to cause no more than a flutter of the eyelid . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Super Sally joined an exclusive club by becoming only the fifth British girl athlete to strike gold and only the second ever on the track , following Ann Packer in Tokyo 28 years ago . |
| 6 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 7 | So what thoughts will be going through your mind when you send out the last Grand National runner ? |
| 8 | The Hong Kong authorities had carried out the first involuntary repatriation operation on Dec. 12 , 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] . |
| 9 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 10 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 11 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 12 | Which brings us to the blockbusting Italy issue arranged by Morgan Stanley , the US investment bank which put together the first US-style issue in Europe with an offering for New Zealand in August . |
| 13 | They were both of them talking in these high and ceremonious terms , Cadfael suspected , in order to smooth away the first sore moments , and give Sub-Prior Herluin time to master his chagrin , and achieve a graceful retreat . |
| 14 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 15 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 16 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 17 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 18 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 19 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 20 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 21 | It caused probably the first mythical switchboard ( since phones were only just installed ) , the cancelling of the Thursday night repeat was discussed in Parliament , Prince Philip loved it , Peter Cushing ( as Winston ) became a star , and the genuine sewer rats used for ‘ that ’ sequence all passed out under the studio lights . |
| 22 | This project will carry out the first longitudinal study of the relationships between health and health related behaviour ; education and training ; and employment in men . |
| 23 | This research will carry out the first national random sample of Labour Party members . |
| 24 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 25 | In a new departure , EPLF gunboats attacked and set fire to a Polish freighter off the Eritrean Red Sea coast on Jan. 3 ; they seized the 30-strong crew and fired rockets to drive off a second Polish freighter which attempted to come to their aid . |
| 26 | PREMIER John Major flew home from his Spanish holiday yesterday — ready to kill off the last lingering hopes of early economic recovery . |
| 27 | Brett of the extra-long floppy limbs churns out a second easy classic . |
| 28 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 29 | Roy Keane , Niall Quinn , Ray Houghton , Steve Staunton and Kevin Moran will all incur a one-match ban if they pick up a second yellow card tomorrow . |
| 30 | 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 . |