Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " 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 They all plead not guilty along with a fifth man , Kenneth Osborne .
3 In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work .
4 Erm I mean we 'll put that down as a third reserve .
5 About eight o'clock on the eighth day I was told to pack my stuff up , because at seven o'clock the next morning I was going to Styal .
6 Of the seventeen pieces in this collection , which survives complete only in the second edition of 1533 , no fewer than eight — only seven in the 1533 version — are by Philippe Verdelot ( d. c. 1540 ) , a Frenchman who lived in Italy from a very early age , two ( three in the second edition ) are by an Italian , Costanzo Festa ( C. 1495–1545 ) , one is by another Festa , Sebastiano , of whom we know nothing , one by a mysterious ‘ Maistre Jan ’ or Ihan who has only recently been identified as ‘ a French-born musician active at the court of Ferrara from 1512 to about 1543 ’ , and the remainder by still more shadowy characters .
7 " Bishop Lowe died at eleven o'clock on the 30th September 1467 , at his Palace at Halling , in the most peaceful manner .
8 Bailey was 5–2 down in the first set tie breaker but won five successive points to draw first blood and then broke his rival in both the third and fifth games of the second set for an astounding victory .
9 Manchester-based Swail , the world No53 from Belfast , closed to 4-3 but was on the rack again at 47-0 down in the eighth .
10 Moxon and Kellett ( 87 ) , rattled up 203 together for the first wicket after Yorkshire had been put in to bat .
11 Mm , but what I ca n't weigh up is there 's nothing wrong together in the first place
12 In fact , there had been a tendency for countships ( and benefices ) to become hereditary long before the mid-ninth century : it was inherent in a social organisation where power and property in general were inherited .
13 The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped and contiguous only on the first 2–3 arm segments , the plates in profile appear to be slightly swollen .
14 ‘ Four faults , ’ crackled the public address system as the little bright-bay mare failed to tuck her hind feet up quite high enough at the last bar of the treble .
15 Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory .
16 By far the rarest type of post-medieval coffin is the gable-lidded tapered shape ; this is frustrating , especially as they are so well known in contemporary art from the fourteenth through to the seventeenth centuries .
17 The current , although only slow , should be able to do this easily in the first few seconds before the crust becomes totally waterlogged and is still buoyant enough to counteract the weight of the bullet .
18 We will study this further in the next paragraph .
19 We shall explore this further in the next chapter .
20 Erm , we 've got to send this off before the first of November though .
21 The distress of leaving them no doubt contributed to the ‘ sudden & severe indisposition of Mrs Gould … which inducing the utmost fears for her safety , rendered it very doubtful up to the last moment whether they would be able to go or not … ’
22 When he used to write music he used to have different tunings for almost every song , but he 's been doing this now for the last five to seven years — the E string tuned down to D. If I have to play guitar on a song where he 's played guitar , I just learn it my way , using traditional tuning . ’
23 Let's spin this out to the last possible second .
24 ‘ Tell the boy to bring this back on the 20th of March or there will be a fine of five rupees . ’
25 Because if you should think some now in the next five or ten minutes , and then if during the next week you meet in the week sometime
26 It 's 4 years since the D'Oyley Carte Opera Company found a new home in Birmingham , but many of the stage clothes date back to 40s ; some even to the last century .
27 A good example of this well into the twentieth century is the evidence of the Women 's Co-operative Guild investigation into Maternity during the First World War , which found that pregnant working-class women often saved for the coming confinement by stinting on food , and there is plentiful evidence of similar attitudes earlier .
28 Yeah but you see on the , oh I do n't know what date it is sixteenth tomorrow on the eighteenth erm eighteenth , nineteenth , twentieth they have Freddie and the Dreamers there .
29 The ceremony was supposed to start at 2 pm on the 29th : the Gulf on whose beach the men found themselves had been named San Miguel because of the happy coincidence of the feast day .
30 But whether serial or parallel processing turns out to be the way the brain works ( there will be more to say about this too in the next chapters ) , there will be cellular events associated with both the short-term and the long-term phase , and we have to try to distinguish between them experimentally .
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