Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His most recent succés du scandale came last spring at the Venice Biennale , the art world 's Cannes , where Koons showed a polychromed sculpture of him and Cicciolina as a soft-core Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden , surrounded by three laser-painted and varnished canvases of the couple making love . |
| 2 | Dilwyn Bowles 's hernia appeared last September after he fell over a kitchen chair . |
| 3 | Helping punters outwit the bookies is something that gives Brittain real pleasure and he recalls with pride how an acquaintance made an exceptionally nice profit when the trainer 's Terimon took second place to Nashwan in this year 's Derby . |
| 4 | My original programme included the week 's Workshop in Jaipur and two lectures in Delhi , but in fact I found myself with many more professional engagements than this , through the Indian habit of ‘ cashing in ’ on one 's presence to arrange last minute lectures and seminars , and the Indian tendency to solicit one 's opinion of personal research , of Ph.D . |
| 5 | Mary 's ex-husband said last night : ‘ I think he is a very foolish man . |
| 6 | But Mr Onanuga 's girlfriend said last night she still believed him . |
| 7 | Dennett 's agent said last night : ‘ Mike 's a busy man . |
| 8 | Jon Marchant , Granada 's sponsorship controller , was a principal negotiator on the PowerGen deal and is drawing up ITV 's plan to put next year 's World Cup sponsorship out to tender . |
| 9 | But , as the Institute 's Council found last month , when it considered a preliminary paper on the subject , openness could actually end up destroying the effectiveness of the disciplinary process altogether . |
| 10 | They doubted whether valid measures of all of the areas of development could be devised ; they maintained that the tests used would have a distorting and trivializing effect on pupils ' learning ( 'this year 's test becomes next year 's curriculum' ) : they pointed to the possibility , notwithstanding the assurances that light sampling techniques would be deployed , that superficial comparisons would be made on the basis of inadequate evidence between areas and between schools ; and they detected in the paraphernalia of mass testing associated with the APU the most sinister intrusion of central government into the work of the schools and the spectre of state-controlled curricula . |
| 11 | He said Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic , whose forces have besieged Cerska since Bosnia 's war erupted last April , had agreed in principle to the inspection trip . |
| 12 | THE latest phase in Panama 's crisis began last Friday , when General Noriega had himself declared formal head of government by his self-appointed National Assembly , and simultaneously announced that a ‘ state of war ’ now existed with the US . |
| 13 | The opening chorus of No. 140 , for example , is a very dramatic affair yet this aspect of Bach 's art takes second place to refinement of articulation and gracefulness of phrase . |
| 14 | Irvine , California-based Advanced Logic Research Inc has cut prices across its entire line of desktop products in response to Compaq Computer Corp 's price cuts last week : the reductions are intended to position key models with a higher feature set at prices 10% to 20% less than Compaq 's comparable models . |
| 15 | Louise Müller 's name occupied third place in the playbills . |
| 16 | Chisholm 's wife said last night he was ‘ working off steam ’ at his local gymnasium . |
| 17 | With such constructive criticism , and the possibility of a separate prize for quasi-official organisations dependent on government grants , it is worth every charity 's while to enter next year 's awards . |
| 18 | South Korea 's economy grew last year at a real rate of 9.2% . |
| 19 | It is the Opposition 's choice to confine next week 's debate to Ravenscraig and north Lanarkshire . |
| 20 | A final triumph came at the Paris exhibition of 1878 , where he and ( Sir ) Arthur Sullivan [ q.v. ] organized the British musical element , and Leslie 's choir won first prize in the international choral competition . |
| 21 | Malta 's government decided last year to commemorate the 50th anniversary by issuing medals to all servicemen who served there . |
| 22 | Guy 's Hospital confirmed last night that the dead girl was Daniella Carter , who had been standing near the blast . |
| 23 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |
| 24 | Shall I tell you what I saw in my old man 's garden shed last summer ? |
| 25 | Heinzer 's win followed second place to the Austrian veteran Leonhard Stock at Val d'Isere and second to Frenchman Franck Piccard in the Valloire super giant slalom . |
| 26 | Toby Balding 's star faces last year 's top novice Miinnehoma , Run For Free and Bonanza Boy — all trained by Martin Pipe — in the £25,000 race , won 12 months ago by Carvill 's Hill . |
| 27 | Well no , well , well of course Alexander 's school see next year he er he 's got ta wear black and you know a black suit . |
| 28 | COLIN Jackson , a disappointment at the Barcelona Olympics , beat American silver medallist Tony Dees in the men 's high hurdles at the Zurich Grand Prix athletics meeting last night . |
| 29 | Imagine that we could directly observe a particular person 's or group 's expectation formed last period of the current period 's value of an economic variable . |
| 30 | The interdependence of farming and mining , added to technological constraints , restricted the number of days annually available for mining ; the farmer-miner 's smallholding had first claim on his time , and he went to the mine with the limited aim of satisfying , with a minimum of effort , the desire for a particular level of cash-income expectation determined by the need to pay the rent of his holding and purchase a given packet of ‘ industrial ’ goods . |