Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Johnson 's report , the education offered by the city takes precedence over any popular descriptions or concerns , beginning with an interest in the fact that Hector Boece or Boethius became the first President of the King 's College , in 1494 , at the instigation of Bishop William Elphinstone , effectively the founder of Aberdeen University — whose tomb may still be seen . |
| 2 | However , the most notable feature of these accounts is not so much their dating , as the apparent belief in St Augustine 's , where Goscelin spent the last years of his life , that Cnut visited them both on the way to and from Rome . |
| 3 | Saatchi & Saatchi announced a first half profit before tax of £11.1m , compared with a loss of £32m in the same period last year . |
| 4 | In 1798 Breitkopf & Härtel launched the first ‘ collected edition ’ of Mozart 's works , and the first biography ( Niemetschek 's Life of Kapellmeister Wolfgang Gottlieb Mo–art written from Original Sources ) appeared in Prague . |
| 5 | Although Harriot drew the first map of the Moon as seen through the telescope , or glass , Galileo 's series of observations were the first serious scientific investigation of the Moon 's surface . |
| 6 | Thus it came about that Tanberg anticipated the second ingredient in the Fleischmann and Pons story : he introduced ‘ electrolysis ’ as a way of encouraging the hydrogen to come together . |
| 7 | It will be recalled from discussion of Table 1 , Expenditure on libraries and computing , that Strathclyde had the second lowest expenditure per student on libraries in 1986-87 . |
| 8 | The Britons have never shed barbarism ; they are proud to tell you that Tacitus said the last word about Germans . |
| 9 | In writing the above sentence , for example , you PRESUPPOSED that Dickens produced a second novel . |
| 10 | Smith became a Carnegie trustee , and it was thanks to the association between the two men that Keighley became the first town in England to acquire a new Carnegie free library . |
| 11 | It is claimed that Altrincham has the second highest capital income in the country . |
| 12 | The crucial difference is that Marx emphasised the first element , while Weber emphasised the second . |
| 13 | It was twenty-five minutes after Morse had left the scene that Lewis discovered the first , fat clue : a sheet of yellow A4 paper on which the details of the Historic Cities of England Tour had been originally itemised ; and on which the time of the final item that day had been crossed through boldly in blue Biro , with the entry now reading : |
| 14 | ‘ Through the 90s , Conservative Government will draw on and be sustained by our principles to ensure that Britain enters the next millennium strong , confident , generous and free ’ John Major |
| 15 | Through the '90s , Conservative Government will draw on , and be sustained by , our principles to ensure that Britain enters the next millennium strong , confident , generous and free . |
| 16 | It recommends that France take a second look at following the policy that US President Jimmy Carter adopted of storing radioactive waste rather than reprocessing it . |
| 17 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 18 | It is a matter of history that Austin became the first Englishman to regularly employ the new-fangled back crawl , which all swimmers use today but was then regarded as something of an eccentricity . |
| 19 | Although Laurie led the first day of the 1957 Open jointly with Eric Brown and Flory Van Donck , he was to finish out of the top twenty , Bobby Locke taking the last of his four Championship titles . |
| 20 | So it was that Huddersfield became the first club to win the Cup with a penalty . |
| 21 | they resumed this morning on 408 for 5 … the damage done although Gloucestershire took the last five wickets at a cost of just 113 runs … |
| 22 | The laws committee required four additional sittings in London and Wellington to complete the first in-depth overhaul of rugby union 's laws for four years . |
| 23 | Amy nodded , her eyes like saucers , and Kathleen remembered the first time she had worked in A and E. |
| 24 | Major Bradley of the Bryn Tyrch Hotel in Capel Curig helped the local man to acquire the skills of protective ropework , and Evan spent the Second World War training the Commandos and the Lovat Scouts to climb . |
| 25 | But the effort proved too much to sustain and Reykjavik scored the next 13 points to put the issue beyond doubt . |
| 26 | If Edgar speaks the last words , they appear a sort of reproof to Albany while Edgar assumes authority over the hopes of the future . |
| 27 | In 1964 Norah and Jean started the first Surrey regional training course . |
| 28 | Meaby and Walker reached the 17th dormy two , but missed a short putt and slipped to dormy one . |
| 29 | The same thing happened in Holland and ATS gave the next three races a miss to try to fix the problems . |
| 30 | Following the opening of the Deviation in 1978 , the rebuilding of the old line between Tan y Grisiau and Blaenau became the next major goal for the Railway . |