Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It had been so exciting the last time with one plane .
2 How high the second part of the hurdle should be pitched , suspicion or likelihood , will depend again on value judgments .
3 If there was anything unpleasant the first thing in the boys ' minds was ‘ not to worry mother ’ .
4 In early 1986 Butlins celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of its first holiday camp in Britain .
5 After the meeting he said to one of the local people that it was very unlike the Last Conference in 1913 when he attacked L.G. for 45 minutes amid great applause .
6 True , but few produce so amazing a second flush in late autumn or early winter .
7 In Jackson v. Rotax Motor and Cycle Co. ( 1910 C.A. ) the buyer accepted as satisfactory the first delivery of motor horns but claimed to reject the later deliveries because they were not of merchantable quality .
8 He three-putted the last hole for bogey .
9 He is ( sort of ) the same type as Dino and i think Wilko will stay with Dino for quite a while yet and little mr Wally-Wally has been doing his things quite good the last couple of games meethinks .
10 Thus it rejected Owen 's bid , revolutionary in concept but illusory in fact , to appropriate all industry into a nationwide industrial democracy : and , by that rejection , but quite unaware that it had done so , left unimpeded the second stage of the Industrial Revolution , the stage that guaranteed that it too would be irreversible , that the continuance of a phenomenal increase in the production of wealth could occur .
11 Alex has not been too well the last couple of days , you know .
12 But I am in no doubt that if players had not been forthcoming the next chapter in the SA book — not the SARB 's — would have been to offer money .
13 Moore warned just how physical the first meeting between the teams since 1984 could become , adding to fears that Botha could bury England with an avalanche of carelessly conceded penalties .
14 On Aug. 10 the World Bank had unblocked a second tranche of the $1,250 million loan granted in October 1988 [ see p.36613 ] without insisting on a previous condition that the government lower import duties on manufactures goods .
15 Full details of dates , screenings , directors talks and other special events will appear in the film and media festival programme — available the second week in April .
16 I note in particular the first meeting of the National Committee which I was glad to see made a good start .
17 They have allowed their ancient texts , in particular the first chapter of Genesis , to be read in a way that supports , if not requires , human despotism .
18 That would usually be called an engine , and in a car the engine just burns petrol and produces the mechanical energy in the shaft which turns the wheels , so the course is learning about the nature of mechanical forces and energy , thermal forces and energy and of the conversion of one form of energy to another , and in the process you learn that there are fundamental scientific laws — in particular the second law of thermo-dynamics — which says that you ca n't necessarily go form energy in one form with a hundred percent efficiency to getting it out in another form , so this limitation on your ability to convert from one form into another without waste in fact comes into many , many processes and every day processes .
19 Kate Miskin pushed open the first door on the left and stood aside for Dalgliesh and Massingham to enter .
20 She broke open the third drawer with a snap .
21 Walters landed a second penalty in the opening minute of the second-half before wing Wayne Proctor squeezed in at the left corner for the tourists ' third try .
22 Guiltily she ran down the bouncing shallow steps , jarring them as hard as she could to off-balance the last man on his feet .
23 Tritsis 's career as a stormy petrel continued when he was given the education portfolio in 1987 — he was unshipped the next year by a protracted teachers ' strike .
24 However , if the OR is satisfied the next step in the liquidation is for a meeting of creditors and shareholders to decide whether or not to appoint an outside liquidator .
25 With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 .
26 But for some strange reason , and I do n't know whether they direct it to Christian the last shot of the film , almost unnoticeable because the credits were going up she went back into church and it was a communion service and all you saw was her receiving the bread and passing the plate and the plate was to the young black lad on the farm and you thought , he 's come back !
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