Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following March Bob Champion rode him into third place behind Alverton in 1979 the Cheltenham Gold Cup ( at 40–1 ) and the month after that Aldaniti ran second to Fighting Fit in the Scottish National at Ayr . |
| 2 | The row about selecting a new director of social work for Central Region ended last week Mike Ransom , acting director at Dudley , was appointed to the job . |
| 3 | Sow antirrhinums , calendulas , clarkias , cornflowers and nemesias to be ready for early summer displays next year . |
| 4 | A look of complete shock registered first , closely followed by raw anger . |
| 5 | And with English National Opera promising an exclusive diet of 20th- century works next season including Mark-Anthony Turnage 's remarkable operatic reworking of Steven Berkoff 's Greek , and Covent Garden scheduling the premiere of Harrison Birtwhistle 's Gawain , the boom in contemporary opera is set to continue . |
| 6 | For the variable we are considering , this prediction implies that the difference between the current value of the retail price index and the expectation of that index formed last period will be a serially uncorrelated random variable with mean zero , that is : where P t is the actual value of the current retail price index , is the expectation of P t , formed in period , and v t is the random forecast error , which is uncorrelated with any information available in period or earlier . |
| 7 | The language of the novel makes use of this cliché to demonstrate first that there is a profound ambiguity in the social construction of femininity according to which women are passive but at the same time subversive of the binary distinction which so construes them , and second that all people , male and female , are condemned to being at least partially the product of the language of others . |
| 8 | McKinnon said he would like to see more plays of this quality receiving second and third productions in Scotland where there was a tendency to forget about a play after its premiere . |
| 9 | The hitherto ruling Croatian League of Communists — Party of Democratic Change came second in a field of more than 30 political parties [ the full results will be published in the next News Digest ] . |
| 10 | Cable & Wireless Plc 's Mercury Communications Ltd seems to have run into trouble with its trial of personal numbering announced last August : at that stage it was saying that trials of the technology — which would enable subscribers to use any phone to inform the network of their whereabouts — would begin in the autumn of last year . |
| 11 | FORMER international Dorothy Armstrong last night called for a radical change in the format of domestic squash following last week 's vote to amalgamate the Northern Ireland Men 's and Women 's Associations . |
| 12 | The circumstances of a particular case may oblige the partners as a matter of good faith to proceed first by way of warning as to future conduct or to offer a personal hearing to the offending partner , but few general rules can be laid down in this respect . |
| 13 | New gallery of Egyptian art holds first exhibition with an unpublished head of Tutankhamun |
| 14 | Smoked duck 's breast on a bed of mixed salad came next , followed by a meaty chicken terrine , cut into thick slices and served alone . |
| 15 | The collector then donated them to three American museums : the Museum of Modern Art had first choice , and took forty-three ; the Art Institute of Chicago then selected thirty-eight ; and the rest went to the Denver Art Museum . |
| 16 | According to Dr Declan Murphy , project director in Washington , Rome has not forgotten this help and despite a certain weariness engendered by the numerous calls for loans of 1492 material received last year , it cooperated enthusiastically with Washington over the exhibition ( which is to mark the reopening of the Great Hall of the Library of Congress after a three-year renovation ) . |
| 17 | Keen investors pumped more than £2,260 million into Personal Equity Plans last year — taking the total invested since the scheme was lauched in January 1987 to more than £6 billion . |
| 18 | CHELSEA coach Don Howe was taken into hospital for precautionary chest checks last night . |
| 19 | So did is an anaphoric verb phrase ; that is to say , its referential properties operate not directly , but indirectly , through a previously mentioned verb phrase , in this case expired last Thursday , which must be re-applied , this time with John as subject . |
| 20 | The decision to hold the event is another fillip for disabled sport in this country following last month 's announcement that the World Dressage Championships will be staged at Hartpury College , near Gloucester , in July 1994 . |
| 21 | Their conversations were , Henry felt , the sweeter for having a core of known fact which they could then decorate and refine , like old men in some village discussing last year 's harvest . |
| 22 | An earlier decision by the same judge preventing the four from organising or inciting mass pickets at the factory is due to go before three appeal judges next week . |
| 23 | An earlier decision by the same judge preventing the four from organising or inciting mass pickets at the factory is due to go before three appeal judges next week . |
| 24 | An increase on the 1,000 million yen in environmental aid provided last year , the programme is linked to acid rain in Japan caused by pollution in China . |
| 25 | The story is that slow sedimentation in deep water produced first the Diaspri ( Upper jurassic radiolarian cherts ) and then the Scaglia or Scisti policromi ( Cretaceous to Oligocene vari-coloured shales ) . |
| 26 | RONNIE O'Sullivan was beaten for the first time in 25 snooker matches last night — Dave Finbow thrashed him 5-0 in the Dubai Classic . |
| 27 | In Bombay , where at least 246 people were killed and about 1,200 injured in 13 bomb blasts last Friday , police said a large amount of explosives was still in the city and as yet unlocated . |
| 28 | I want to re-study all of Beethoven 's Sonatas carefully , and play only two programmes , or perhaps three , in one season starting next spring . |
| 29 | A public rift in Catholic politics surfaced last week when the Communion and Liberation movement severed its ties with a powerful weekly magazine , Il Sabato , run by Andreotti supporters . |
| 30 | The Apollo Players planned excerpts from Phantom of the Opera , Les Miserables and Miss Saigon for 25th anniversary shows next week . |