Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [noun] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pier Carlo Falotti , head of DEC Europe and touted last year by The Wall Street Journal as Ken Olsen 's possible successor , tendered his resignation June 30 , an action The Journal said last week precipitated Olsen 's resignation ten days ago ( UX No 394 ) . |
| 2 | Pupils can be encouraged or discouraged as writers by what the teacher does with their writing , and the way you receive written work and respond to it powerfully affects the work the pupils do next time . |
| 3 | A survey of the Japanese computer market in Nikkei group magazine Nikkei Computer estimates the Japanese domestic computer market at $92,000m : a growth rate of 6% is expected over the new financial year that started on April 1 ; by sector the market grew last fiscal by 18% for Unix systems , compared with 8% for the data services market , 5% for mainframe computers and 3% for small business computers , while personal computers saw negative growth ; Unix machines are expected to grow by 20% this year and personal computers to put on 7% ; mainframes are again expected to be affected by the depressed economic conditions but will still manage 2% growth . |
| 4 | Left was away from the place the Mobile had last seen him , away from Neptune Court . |
| 5 | The band is playing on on a day-to-day basis a spokeswoman said last night . |
| 6 | At the end of the day the team comes first . |
| 7 | ‘ It depends whose pad the police hit first . ’ |
| 8 | On one occasion a man sat next to me and after a preliminary bit of footsie , he invited me to slip my hand into his pants . |
| 9 | To attack a U-boat an aircraft had first to sight it on the surface . |
| 10 | This head felt that the re-expression and development of ideas which IT made possible allowed every pupil the chance to have second thoughts . |
| 11 | This week the Community had second thoughts . |
| 12 | Every morning the ponies started first , and the dogs started two hours later , because they ran faster . |
| 13 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 14 | In this sense the literature discussed next is about the political process and macroeconomics rather than macroeconomics per se . |
| 15 | The faces and voices of the two young men , one about my age , the other hardly fourteen , one standing right behind the newspaper man the other nestling next to him , were by no means devoid of expression . |
| 16 | At Chair Ladder The Rodent Laughs Last , E1 5b , goes up the arête right of Original Route and is , I presume , a riposte to Hysterical Hamsters . |
| 17 | In terms of legal status the clerk had first of all the right to have his case tried only before a church court — the " privilege of the forum " . |
| 18 | In the end the Peacocks finished fourth ; Chapman 's promotion bid had , only narrowly , failed . |
| 19 | It fits well with the way the figure placed next her in fig 124 is lifting the mantle on her shoulders ; and this is against the suggested transfer . |
| 20 | At one time the family lived next door to a prostitute , an older woman who was " rather fat and ungainly and sloppy looking " . |
| 21 | The Central Statistical Office reported that its longer leading index of economic activity continued to suggest hat the economy turned last summer while its shorter index points to recovery at the end of last year . |
| 22 | The Moderator laid on the table a letter dated 4th July which he had received from Mr Sutherland and which having , been read was by unanimous order of the Session thrown over the table . |