Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 TIPPING Tim is favourite in all books to become only the second horse to land the Mackeson-A F Budge Cup double .
2 It says vendors took around eighteen months to bring out the first XPG3-branded products after its introduction .
3 Having taken the field with his directors to become surely the first board to be cheered to the rafters , he was presented with a cheque .
4 Moreover , its attempts to weed out the next Barlow Clowes are not considered impressive .
5 Such conditions are all too rare today ( works bought for public institutions like the Tate disappear from view for decades together ) , and it must have been a factor in the decision of some artists to give in the first place .
6 Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning .
7 In a new departure , EPLF gunboats attacked and set fire to a Polish freighter off the Eritrean Red Sea coast on Jan. 3 ; they seized the 30-strong crew and fired rockets to drive off a second Polish freighter which attempted to come to their aid .
8 Bill drew the curtains to let in the last of the twilight , then , as Faye 's eyes began to adjust , he turned to two low antique glass lamps .
9 In the end it was left to Jose-Maria Canizares , the oldest man in either side , to secure the point which assured Europe of a tie , before the final four Americans on the course won their matches to produce just the second stalemate in a series stretching back to 1927 , and the first for 20 years .
10 Brian Wisenden and Miles Keenleyside , of the University of Western Ontario , have spent the past two years studying the convict cichlid Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum ( named for its distinctive stripes ) , a species already known to have the common cichlid habit of forming monogamous pairs to bring up the next generation .
11 No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there .
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