Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formulation of Labour Government policies to support the Third Pillar — the projection and protection of British interests overseas — needed least reorientation of traditional British military thinking that had evolved from three centuries of global geo-political experience . |
| 2 | Indeed , he regretted bitterly that his attempts to establish a sixth form in the school had been so abortive . |
| 3 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 4 | Norwich Union 's aim is at all times to provide a first class standard of service . |
| 5 | The agency has plans to launch a second craft in April 1994 , at about the time that the first satellite reaches the end of its operational life . |
| 6 | She narrowed her eyes to catch the first mosquito smudge of distant cormorants — give them till daylight , she told herself as if you can command their flight ! |
| 7 | However , as the chart indicates , Tory supporters are considerably more likely than Labour supporters to favour a second election , and Liberal Democrats — by a margin of three to one — favour some kind of arrangement . |
| 8 | Jenny inherited a substantial sum from the estate of an aunt and used the funds to buy a second car and to establish a trust account for their child . |
| 9 | Tass confirmed on Sept. 18 , 1989 , that two Japanese journalists had been selected , in line with a $12,000,000 agreement made in March 1989 with the Tokyo TBS television network , as candidates to give the first space broadcast from Mir at an unspecified date in 1991 , despite earlier protests from Soviet journalists that the decision was unpatriotic . |
| 10 | Johansson and Rumar ( 1966 ) stopped over 1,000 drivers by the roadside 710m along the road from a road sign placed there by the experimenters and asked the drivers to describe the last road sign they had seen . |
| 11 | More than ten thousand British fans travelled to Barcelona last months to witness the first Olympics to be held in Europe for 20 years . |
| 12 | A formal launch of the permanent exhibition , created by Liverpool 's Walton Group , will take place next May to coincide with a magnificent modern armada of more than 40 warships to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 13 | Looking out over the Brussels skyline , it occurs to me that Carter may well not have that many more opportunities to have the last laugh on a scale like this . |
| 14 | Both raw materials and finished products were all in bags — we unloaded the raw materials up until midnight then re-loaded the lorries from midnight onwards for the drivers to deliver the next day . |
| 15 | The efforts of pacifists to prevent the Second World War have won them few friends . |
| 16 | PLANS to celebrate the 150th anniversary of North Road station , Darlington , take a step forward next week when the town 's Railway Preservation Society meets the borough council to consider possible cash help . |
| 17 | WORLD champion Stephen Hendry was in a hurry in Blackpool yesterday as he took only 58 minutes to reach the fourth round of the £140,000 Regal Welsh Open . |
| 18 | CAMBRIDGE survived a frantic succession of alarms and excursions to win the 108th University Match and lift the Bowring Bowl for the second time in five seasons at Twickenham yesterday . |
| 19 | Bombardment of the inner forts followed , and for some three weeks attempts — desultory at best — were made by trawlers to sweep the first line of mines . |
| 20 | The bash was organised by grateful parents to mark the 1,000th baby , due to be born this month . |
| 21 | Atkins employed these cyanotype plates to publish the first book illustrated with photographs , pre-dating her colleague William Henry Fox Talbot 's better known The Pencil of Nature ( 1844–6 ) . |
| 22 | Slice another wide round in two horizontally and place one half on top of the two remaining wide rounds to form the third tower . |
| 23 | After 4 attempts to play the 5th round tie , the match with Hythe eventually went ahead last night , ending in a one all draw , so Abingdon face a trip to the Kent Coast on Monday at 7.30 . |
| 24 | PLANS to reopen the sixth form of a Darlington school have been shelved . |
| 25 | Disappointed governors at Hummersknott School in Darlington have had to shelve their plans to reopen the sixth form after being told that they have no legal right of appeal against Durham county council 's rejection of the scheme . |
| 26 | The following study attempts to avoid the first problem by increasing the data available for the calculation of ROC curves and to address the second problem by using a much more varied selection of stimuli . |
| 27 | The need for a male heir to the throne of France was now desperate and it took Louis only five weeks to find a third wife , Adela of Champagne . |
| 28 | I admired what he was doing with his life from afar and I put the museum on my list of places to experience the next time I was in the Miami area . |
| 29 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 30 | ‘ I allowed about 11 days to do the first chunk of recording — and she did it in five , ’ says the 49-year-old composer . |