Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , I have two letters on the side I open the first one . |
| 2 | THE furnace which powered the last bastion of North Wales 's once-mighty steel industry was last night on its way to China . |
| 3 | An example may be found in Mozart 's third sentence from the Andante just quoted : This looks quite different from the previous section ( Example 26 ) , yet it is really made up of semiquaver groups which end the second sentence , with the addition of the dotted rhythm which begins the second full bar of the music . |
| 4 | But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood . |
| 5 | Several of you are already subscribed twice in this way — as a result of the confusion which occured the last time the Oxford mailer was messed about with . |
| 6 | The second part is a quantitative study which complements the first part . |
| 7 | Within 12 minutes , Aled Williams had banged over a second penalty goal as a prelude to a tremendous Swansea surge which brought the second try from Jenkins . |
| 8 | Theodora leaned over the white rail fence which formed the fourth side of Yaxlee 's yard . |
| 9 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
| 10 | He plunged on the bomber and raked it from tail to nose ; then let his dive carry him under it and pulled up in time to plant a burst in its belly before climbing into a half-roll which brought the next plane almost within range . |
| 11 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of Michael Dickinson , the now US-based trainer who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again who hit form on the day it mattered to scoop the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
| 12 | With a sigh of satisfation she drained the last of her soup from the Thermos cup and chewed the remaining scrap of bread and cheese . |
| 13 | Or you may find that when you first start on your weight control programme you lose the first 3–5 lb ( 1.4–2.3 kg ) fairly rapidly . |
| 14 | Thank you for the compliment you paid the last edition of Rural Wales . |
| 15 | The business is the brainchild of chief executive officer , David Stamm , a co-founder of Daisy Systems and the Intel Corp veteran who designed the first single-chip 8-bit microprocessor . |
| 16 | In this chapter we consider the first of these problems : the growth of public expenditure and the difficulties surrounding its control . |
| 17 | In the last issue of Action we published the first portion of the international Study and Action Programme which was launched in July this year by WACC 's Central Committee . |
| 18 | mummy he had the last cherry bakewell |
| 19 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 20 | In the centre is a long paper fastener which permits the second circle to spin round so that the picture will appear in the window . |
| 21 | It is exactly this kind of function which gives the first three examples their odd effect . |
| 22 | I ca n't see that it matters , for the fact remains that it exemplifies the very finest and most elegant architecture which displays the first burgeoning of the English Renaissance . |
| 23 | During the Second World War , the United States operated a ‘ bare-shelves ’ policy towards grain stocks , fearing a repeat of the price crash which followed the First World War . |
| 24 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |
| 25 | However , his incorrigible nature meant he was unrepentant , and Loki ultimately formed an army to fight THOR and Odin in the Ragnarok , the battle which destroyed the First World . |
| 26 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 27 | The mother , as I say , may or may not be the hen which hatched the first brood ; but from her behaviour , which seems slightly less frenetic , I reckon she is someone else . |
| 28 | He climbed up the outside staircase past the fountains surrounded by black-veiled women filling their pots with water and out on to the little parapeted promenade which crowned the second storey . |
| 29 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 30 | Michael Roberts could ride either but sticks to Lyric Fantasy who became the first two-year-old filly to win the Nunthorpe at Yor |