Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the launch at Darlington Arts Centre , Miss Armstrong said women should not be ‘ side-lined , marginalised or treated as second class citizens . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah so do you want to sort of make a decision now , or wait till next week or |
| 3 | Though impulsive in some ways , she was an ordinary , practical girl who had never really believed in grand passion or love at first sight . |
| 4 | or read in last night 's Evening Post |
| 5 | THE back office problems that led to last month 's suspension of Dumenil unit trusts were identified six months ago in a document that put the group up for sale . |
| 6 | There are among honey bees three reported examples that appear at first glance to qualify as cognitive trial-and-error . |
| 7 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 8 | But motor industry executives now expect the decline in sales that showed through last month to accelerate in the remainder of the year . |
| 9 | I was very proud to say that finished in second place , a very creditable performan achievement , as I am sure members will agree . |
| 10 | Food , desperately needed now that produce from last year 's harvest is running out , had become garbage . |
| 11 | This is a much more debatable — and debated — point than appears at first sight . |
| 12 | The distinction does arise and it can not entirely be neglected but it is much less important than appears at first sight . |
| 13 | There may prove to be less difference between some modern versions of Christianity and Buddhism and psychoanalysis than appears at first sight . |
| 14 | Such compound instructions may therefore be less useful than appears at first sight . |
| 15 | Those who have worked in the legal civil service report that it is much more interesting than appears at first sight . |
| 16 | In the forests of the Mesozoic there were large numbers of trees and shrubby plants that looked at first glance like palm trees , with leafless stems crowned with bouquets of stiff , large leaves , deeply divided into long , unbranched leaflets . |
| 17 | He is seeking , in a manner that appears to lack the kind of subtlety that comes as second nature to China 's rulers , to call their bluff . |
| 18 | THE back office problems that lead to last month 's supension of Dumenil unit trusts were identified six months ago in a document that put the group up for sale . |
| 19 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 20 | We ask the general assembly to remit to the assembly council to give attention to the placing of health and healing within the overall work of the church and to report to next year 's general assembly on where they think this remit should most effectively be discharged . |
| 21 | He seems barely able to recognize us and refers to last year 's campaign on Azrad as if it were yesterday . ’ |
| 22 | Weissman carried on courageously with a complex but fascinating lecture on RNA splicing , ignoring the loud hubbub and intermittent squawks from his own microphone , and pausing often to wait out an eruption of roars and whistles from next door . |
| 23 | I 'd put on a frilly pink dress and dance to next door 's rock music — they had it on super-loud , the walls shook . |
| 24 | He aims to have it debated and passed by next month . |
| 25 | Ipswich 's thoughts are currently concentrating on beating Wimbledon to make sure of the National League title and qualify for next season 's European clubs championship . |
| 26 | The selectors feel she has already earned her passage to Barcelona , having last summer finished second in the Europa Cup , ninth in the World Championships , and moved to fifth place in the world all-time 10,000 metres rankings . |
| 27 | Here is a man who strides about purposefully , hits the ball a long long way , and looks at first sight like a competitor capable of a certain bumptiousness . |
| 28 | Poor Owen Rowlands , the first-day leader , had slumped to a 76 and dropped to sixth place . |
| 29 | Cadbury has a ten per cent share by value of the European chocolate market , and lies in fifth place behind Nestlé , Mars , Suchard and Ferrero . |
| 30 | The Yorkshireman , riding Milton , had a disastrous second round , after a first round clear , and crashed to 14th place — just one place above his brother Michael . |