Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Betts , who has appeared jaded after Great Britain 's summer tour Down Under , roared back to top form , helping with two tries and grabbing a third as Wigan confirmed their favouritism for a record fourth consecutive title . |
| 32 | From the late eighteenth century the rise of the cotton industry not only reversed the long relative decline in the importance of textile exports but pushed the first industrial nation , if not in an entirely new direction , at least up a much steeper path . |
| 33 | Taking our places under the lights and feeling the first twinges of nervousness , we watched the cameras moving into position . |
| 34 | Normally the Inter Counties fixture is staged the week after the county championships and provides a second chance for young athletes to achieve qualifying standards for next month 's English Schools Championships . |
| 35 | Chairman David Nairn thanked Grant for the open manner with which he had answered these questions and brought the first day 's business proceedings to and end . |
| 36 | RADICAL proposals to cut the Premier League to 18 teams and introduce a Second Division could be put to the vote today . |
| 37 | Given that for every person who attends live opera , at least 1,000 more buy and enjoy reading poetry , will the Minister change his priorities and become the first legislator to acknowledge the unacknowledged legislators of the world ? |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | She let Herbert know , and he cabled her to cancel all other arrangements and catch the next ship back . |
| 40 | The host limb now has two polarizing regions and develops a second set of digits which are a mirror image of the normal ones . |
| 41 | Certainly too , the size of the big six is significant as they own the equivalent of a quarter of total corporate assets , return a quarter of corporate profits and provide a sixth of national sales ( Sasaki 1981 p.98 ) . |
| 42 | He had his own rooms and spent the last few years of his life reading and receiving a stream of aristocratic visitors , including the princess of Wales , venturing forth occasionally for trips to the theatre organized through the actress Madge Kendal [ q.v . ] . |
| 43 | The drive is lined all the way by graceful lime trees and provides the first hint as to the verity of Tennyson 's description of Gunby Hall in a poem dated 1849 , where he describes it was a ‘ haunt of ancient peace ’ . |
| 44 | The instruction decoding process needs to recognize such double.length instructions and access a second instruction word . |
| 45 | Glance at the sentences and memorize the next few phrases and look at the audience while you are speaking . |
| 46 | The warriors , their spears resting on their shoulders , take very small steps and chant in time , breathy snorts — ‘ Hooh , hooh , hooh ’ — as they circle the girls and pass the second line of warriors , moving in the opposite direction . |
| 47 | Edward and the younger Despenser fled to Wales , perhaps hoping to rally forces and make a last stand in Despenser 's Marcher lordships . |
| 48 | The club has around 70 members and runs a 1st , 2nd , 3rd , 4th and veterans ( ‘ The Crofters ’ ) XI , plus a mixed XI and the now thriving Colts section . |
| 49 | Captain Roskill records that due to error there was no effective naval cover for the operation and German E boats succeeded in sinking two landing ships and damaging a third . |
| 50 | Two months later Deborah passed the Pony Rider tests and became the first Brownie in the Pack to win the badge with the pony on it . |
| 51 | Copy out these six numbers and find the next six that can not be made up by multiplication . |
| 52 | His ‘ Wares had left their billets and accomplished the first part of the plan , leaving some of their number behind to allay suspicions . |
| 53 | Like the 41-foot tree trunk under which Hippocrates , the father of medicine , was said to have made the world 's first diagnoses and issued the first prescriptions . |
| 54 | He switched off the engine then reached into his pocket for his cigarettes and lit the third one since leaving the Windorah . |
| 55 | Sinn Fein , including chairman Tom Hartley , retained its three seats in the Lower Falls and took a fourth from the SDLP . |
| 56 | OK , on paper it all sounds like nausea-inducing stuff , the kind of thing that would cause any self-respecting Popkid to pack up his T-shirts and join the next peace convoy out of town . |
| 57 | In chapter 3 , we examine the emergence of the first handheld CD-ROM systems and preview the first palmtop CD-I player , due for launch in 1992 . |
| 58 | But when Mr Cheng looked at his papers and asked the first question , Hassan closed his eyes . |
| 59 | She found him in her office eating sandwiches and downing the last of his coffee . |
| 60 | Cheshire , champions in 1990 and ‘ 91 , had halved the morning foursomes and shared the first four singles when Caldy 's Bailey claimed a 4 and 3 win over Neil Graham of Newcastle United . |