Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huge crowds flock from East and West to see the second half of the artist 's career |
| 2 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 3 | Angel One landed lightly alongside the still twitching body of his victim and immediately re-aligned his fighting stance , facing in the opposite direction to meet the next attack . |
| 4 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 5 | American war photographer Chris Morris recently took a rare break to attend the second festival of photojournalism in Perpignan where he spoke to Ted Welch about his images and his time in Iraq . |
| 6 | He recently took a rare break to attend the second festival of photojournalism in Perpignan where he spoke to Ted Welch about his time in Iraq . |
| 7 | On Nov. 22 the United States issued invitations to Israel , Lebanon , Syria and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation to attend the next phase of the Middle East peace talks in Washington on Dec. 4 . |
| 8 | Its success in reaching what were , by East African standards , very healthy circulation figures encouraged the Public Relations Department to launch a second paper in 1951 . |
| 9 | The exodus of East Germans continued : 18,000 streamed into West Germany before their country took belated action to plug the last hole in its borders by requiring visas for all future trips to Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | I WAS interested to read a letter from my old headmaster , Mr D Henderson , expressing disappointment at the failure of his bid to establish a sixth form at Hummersknott School . |
| 11 | If there 's a handy tree , wall or fence to provide the third leg , rest against it : this will increase your camera steadiness quite dramatically . |
| 12 | It is rarely an impossibility to find a third person , and in gusty weather this must make sense . |
| 13 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |
| 14 | The one major attempt to apply the Third period model in Latin America , in El Salvador in 1932 ( where the Comintern operated through International Red Aid ) , was quickly and brutally suppressed by a massacre of over 30,000 people . |
| 15 | But they did n't reckon with her burning ambition to win a third time . |
| 16 | ‘ Basically we have adopted the original Decca configuration of microphones used from the 1950s through to the 1970s , but we do n't use a tree microphone in the middle of the orchestra ; we have a three-point microphone in front of the conductor and an omni-pair on either side to cover the first violin and first cello . |
| 17 | The Comintern 's aim was to convert a nationalist struggle into a broader social struggle ( in accordance with part of its remit ) , but Comintern officials made no serious attempt to fulfil the second part of the resolutions adopted at the Sixth Congress by setting up a Communist party in Nicaragua , which could have given the Sandinista movement an organisational base and therefore the possibility of continuity ( Cerdas Cruz : 1986a , pp. 363–97 ) . |
| 18 | It seems as though , when the need was felt again for a monument to adorn the last resting place of the rich and great , it was met by monumentalising the only existing art , that of painted pottery . |
| 19 | The Welshman had two chances at the pink to win the last frame of the afternoon but it was Hendry , with pink and black , who went through to play John Parrott in tomorrow 's semi-final . |
| 20 | During a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the group 's move to its new location , 300 people , including over 160 police officers , were injured in battles between 1,400 police and at least 7,000 demonstrators . |
| 21 | June 1930 saw two Iris IIIs ( S1263 and S1264 ) flying from Plymouth to Iceland ( Reykjavik ) as part of the ceremony to mark the 1,000th anniversary of the Icelandic Parliament . |
| 22 | The prince unveiled a plaque to mark the 600th anniversary of the swannery , which was founded by Benedictine monks . |
| 23 | On an evening in April , the Branch gave 65 Sqn ATC a plaque to mark the 50th anniversary of their inauguration . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State for Defence reopened a list as an exception to allow the Association to mark the fortieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty the Queen , our patron , to the throne . |
| 25 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 26 | You might also consider whether they ought to continue with their attempt to run a second restaurant at all . |
| 27 | It was not a simple matter of carrying out fieldwork , thinking about the results , publishing them , and waiting for peer review to ensure the next research grant . |
| 28 | Churchill favoured having just sufficient troops to make it impossible for the USSR to attack without the need to make such large preparations that its intention to start the Third World War would be self-evident . |
| 29 | THE contest to represent the first district on the Los Angeles Board of County Supervisors hardly sounds like national news . |
| 30 | SOUTH AFRICA have withdrawn their bid to stage the next cricket World Cup , said Ali Bacher , managing director of the United Cricket Board of South Africa today . |