Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb pp] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | March 7th was one of the most momentous days in British sport during the last 50 years and , when our English team achieved the first back-to-back Grand Slam in almost 70 years , we are snatched away to watch highlights of Scotland v France . |
| 2 | A river of molten rock overwhelmed the last of five big dykes , hurriedly built by villagers to protect their homes , and surrounded Signor Giuseppe Fichera 's farm cottage , only 150 yards from the nearest permanently inhabited house . |
| 3 | In the event , the 1980 Broadcasting Act allocated the fourth channel to the IBA in preference to creating a new authority specifically to run this channel . |
| 4 | However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award . |
| 5 | A military accident stationed the first liberal parliament ( 1810 ) in Cadiz , the only town with a liberal society , a large French colony , a daily performance at the French theatre , a social life devoid of aristocratic prejudice , and where the test of status , even for nobles ( who invested in trade ) , was wealth . |
| 6 | Finally we crossed a low pass and descended into the wide depression of the oasis where straggling clumps of trees and patchy cultivation marked the first springs . |
| 7 | The new plant loaded the first ship ‘ Sir William Walker ’ on 16th August 1977 but has never been operated at full capacity . |
| 8 | But had the Labour Party won the last Election they too would be facing hefty tax bills and precisely the same threat to their lavish standards of living . |
| 9 | In 1921 the Society of Chemical Industry instituted the Messel medal , its senior award given every second year . |