Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Day One : Travel from London Liverpool Street on the 7.30 p.m. boat train to Harwich .
2 The Barcelona Olympics were the largest ever summer games , with more than 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials .
3 The Independent pointed out , for example , that the Opposition 's tax plans would mean ’ the largest ever peacetime tax increase . ’
4 Within days , the much-respected Strictly Rhythm label had steamed in and now DJAIMIN 's ‘ Give You ’ is being unleashed in the UK by Cooltempo .
5 ON the eight o'clock radio news that Monday morning there was a substantial piece about an exciting police chase in Essex — understandably , on a rather lonely road .
6 His reflection was fed by information from a wide variety of sources — from the presidential staff at the Elysée , from his ministers , from officials and experts , from the abundant official documentation that passed across his desk , and from the media ( he read all the major French newspapers as well as the Daily Telegraph , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and the New York Herald Tribune , and his normal weekday routine always ended in time for the eight o'clock television news ) .
7 The greatest ever North-East band ?
8 The youngest ever organ soloist to appear at the Proms , in 1977 , he is especially noted for his brilliant performances of twentieth century works and of masterpieces in the great Romantic tradition .
9 Peter , who was 44 , had joined Rentokil in 1966 and during 26 years with the company had worked in the laboratory , been appointed the youngest ever pest control surveyor in London and been seconded to the Bahamas where he and Lynn spent seven years .
10 At 22 , Val became the youngest ever ward sister at London 's Middlesex Hospital .
11 The English only fire bullets , but in Irish speech any missile to hand can be fired , simply by hurling it .
12 One of the few genuinely dockland clubs , they won the 1905 FA Amateur Cup as West Hartlepool , then achieved nothing more until they won promotion to the Third .
13 Effectively this happened in two stages — the first in the 1920s and 30s when British colonialism wanted to create an intermediate class in East African countries , and the second after World War II when Britain in common with other Western European countries was faced with a chronic shortage of labour .
14 It was felt that the seven-member Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ) , embracing the three Leeward island states ( Antigua and Barbuda , Montserrat , and St Kitts and Nevis ) as well as the four Windwards , was more US-oriented and less capable of performing this new role .
15 This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans .
16 Newspapers would become part of the agreement to keep the message secret until after the traditional 3pm TV broadcast .
17 Fortunately , we had no time to feel sorry for ourselves because an early morning ferry journey took us to Nevis where we played the current Leeward Island champions .
18 His idea of a millionaire 's treat was to take his first wife , Hope Hancock , to the cinema for the 11 o'clock morning show .
19 Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system .
20 The only things that could put a stop to the recovery from recession in the north-west of England and elsewhere are the policies of the Labour party — for , the sharpest ever peacetime tax increase , the national statutory minimum wage , and changes in the law to encourage strikes .
21 A tinny voice rang out , reading the ten o'clock news bulletin .
22 At the very least job exhibitions give you a good chance to practise your interviewing technique .
23 Unfortunately , the 12.35 a.m. tram journey on route 16/18 was not replaced by a corresponding bus journey from Westminster to Purley .
24 What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow .
25 The 8 p.m. news bulletin each evening gave prominence to presidential and governmental words and deeds .
26 Yet , according to The Times ( 7 February 1984 ) , ‘ The first most Cabinet ministers knew was when Sir Geoffrey Howe announced the decision in the Commons on January 25 . ’
27 Scotland also produced the first ever court case in which a sign language interpreter was used , as well as a remarkable heroine in Charlotte Bain .
28 The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability .
29 Tony Cozier reports from Barbados on the first ever Test match between West Indies and South Africa .
30 and you can see the highlights of the Blenheim Horse Trials on Channel Four on Saturday September the twenty sixth … the next big sunday event for horse fans around here will be in November when Cheltenham races stage the first ever sunday jump meeting … they 've been unveiling their plans today … here 's Mark Kiff
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