Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The technique of squeezing the last mark out of the examination game ( for it is so artificial as to be a game ) needs as much practice as mastering the breast stroke or converting a try . |
| 32 | In the absence of Ken Davies ( who had succeeded John Darbyshire as Managing Director in 1985 , and is now living in England ) he expressed the hope that at some future date we might have the opportunity of planting a third tree ! |
| 33 | Hahnemann described her as his best ever student and her deep love for him surely withheld the manuscript to deny his critics the opportunity of judging the 6th edition even more eccentric than the 5th . |
| 34 | The US Energy Department announced a five-year , $103m agreement with the Sematech semiconductor consortium to develop equipment for producing the next generation of chips : its Sandia National Laboratories , near Albuquerque , New Mexico will contribute the materials database and the expertise in advanced systems design needed to improve performance and reliability and Sematech will provide manufacturing expertise to the five-year programme . |
| 35 | His discussions of what was ‘ acceptable damage ’ in return for striking the first blow was ‘ somewhere between ten and sixty million dead . |
| 36 | But the tragic star was still critically ill on a life-support machine after having a second blood clot removed from his brain . |
| 37 | Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season . |
| 38 | Well Nick , you have n't got the benefit of seeing the second division table in front of you . |
| 39 | The honour of establishing the first postwar economic arrangement belongs to Benelux , a grouping of Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg . |
| 40 | The honour of making the first speech may go to the best speaker or the best friend , providing your choice keeps as many people as possible happy ! |
| 41 | SUE HOLWELL , the England sweeper , had the honour of scoring the first goal in the Women 's Typhoo National League when it got underway on Saturday . |
| 42 | For the players of Torpedo Moscow will not only be fighting for the honour of becoming the first side to beat Manchester United in a European tie at Old Trafford . |
| 43 | The political parties of the narrow and fragmented centre of the political spectrum , from which all governments had to be drawn , were agreed only on the fundamental issue of preserving the Fourth Republic : they had , as it were , reserved their right to disagree on everything else . |
| 44 | DURHAM WASPS ' dream of becoming the first British League team to win a European game abroad ended in a 10-1 defeat here last night after Robert Herckerrath had opened the scoring for Gunco Pandas of Rotterdam in the second minute . |
| 45 | Meanwhile , Sally Gunnell yesterday outlined her dream of becoming the first British woman to win a unique ‘ grand slam ’ of major championship gold medals . |
| 46 | Von Gallwitz was a talented artillerist , having been the Inspector General of the Field Artillery just before the war , and more recently had added to his lustre in leading the Eleventh Army to victory in Serbia . |
| 47 | Let's have the courage to admit that there is no betrayal in providing the next Labour government with the scope to give Britain a leading role in a movement to a non-nuclear Europe , ’ he said . |
| 48 | In ‘ Sweeney Erect ’ the modern seems closer to the savage Polyphemus than to Emerson , and the delight in attacking the nineteenth century is obvious ; but so is the tension between modern and ancient . |
| 49 | Police have appealed for help in tracing the last movements of Anthony Buck , 46 , of Bishopthorpe Road , York , whose body was discovered in the River Ouse at Selby on Wednesday evening . |
| 50 | Remove the plumbline from the last bracket before fitting the last length , but fix it temporarily to the inside of the gutter ( with something like plasticine ) to provide a guide for the downpipe . |
| 51 | Just as thrilling but achieved in a much more orderly fashion , was Sweden 's remarkable escape against Canada in Vancouver , ( see special report on page 25 ) , where not only was Stefan Edberg , the world number one at the time , beaten by the little known , 237th ranked Daniel Nestor on the opening day but Magnus Gustafsson also had to save two match points against the Canadian hero before winning the fifth and decisive rubber from two sets to one down . |
| 52 | NEXT loop without executing the NEXT statement , and then subsequently encounter , for example , a RETURN statement , BBCBASIC(Z80) will report an error . |
| 53 | The council 's next meeting , on Monday , is the last before work on installing the first phase of the new lighting in Upper Street is due to start . |
| 54 | Zakks stylist , Sharon Rainey , set to work on eliminating the last frizzy remnants of Sarah 's grown out perm , using huge velcro rollers . |
| 55 | What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged . |
| 56 | As in Babylonia , this calendar was adapted to the sun by intercalating a thirteenth month from time to time , but this was left to local officials in the different cities to decide , and they did this individually and arbitrarily . |
| 57 | His team re-wrote the Turkish record books in the 1991/92 campaign by becoming the first to be undefeated in an entire League programme , joining Trabzonspor and Galatasaray as the only ones to win the championship three seasons running . |
| 58 | The ECJ chose to answer the question by accepting the second argument . |
| 59 | He completed an outstanding session by catching a second pike scaling 28lb . |
| 60 | POSTIES in Luton , Beds , are claiming a record after delivering a second class letter 75 minutes after it was posted . |