Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] ' [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not kidding you : for this high-level encounter he goes to the news-agents ' next door and gets the key that hangs behind the counter . |
| 2 | ‘ We won that series 2–1 and it was the Lions ' first tour triumph in Australia . ’ |
| 3 | As to the kidnappers ' next step , she was confused but pessimistic . |
| 4 | In this current project , two studies are being carried out which should provide the next stage for following up the researchers ' first cohort of 1981 entrants . |
| 5 | Swooping in on a spilled pass he gathered one-handed on the run for the winners ' fourth try , one that Rees just failed to convert . |
| 6 | The tie is sponsored by Carmen Furniture , appropriate to the musical chairs likely for the Scots ' second outing and key to qualification for the knock-out stages — against Canada — where the intention is that Tony Stanger and Carl Hogg will play . |
| 7 | Chelsea-bound Kharin was due to make his farewell appearance for CSKA Moscow in the Scots ' second match of the champions ' league in Bochum . |
| 8 | Nigerian-born John Salako came up through the Palace 's Junior ranks as a pacy winger who could also score goals but , since The Eagles ' last return to the 1st Division , John has shown himself' capable of fulfilling other roles , by performing splendidly at left-back in the latter stages of the 1989–90 season , notably in the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool and in the Wembley Finals . |
| 9 | The judges ' first meeting was not held until nearly a fortnight after their appointment , and even then the only business was the election of a chairman . |
| 10 | The very day after the judges ' first meeting , the slenderness of the chances of anything being built , as a result of the competition , was publicly revealed . |
| 11 | The fact that the Inspirals ' next single is called ‘ Caravan ’ might not do any harm either . |
| 12 | This was partly due to the timescale involved ( the commitment to privatise during the Conservatives ' third term ruled out any complex break-up ) , but was also due to the problems involved with the nuclear industry . |
| 13 | However , promises were made to shift the emphasis of policy during the Conservatives ' third term towards reforming the private rented sector of the housing market . |
| 14 | The big worry for Town is that Arsenal 's goal came from the prolific Ian Wright , his 23rd this season , although it was only The Gunners ' fourth goal in 15 games . |
| 15 | The Manchester outrage is a considerable escalation from the terrorists ' last attempt to place bombs in the city almost a year ago to the day . |
| 16 | It was the dancers ' last night so they were doused by Turner , the bone tech , armed with a high-powered water pistol , and wearing diapers . |
| 17 | The monks ' first attempt to obtain a judgement in their favour proved abortive ; a second trial was therefore arranged at Pallas itself . |
| 18 | The vendors ' first response to a request for warranties is likely to be that they should not be required to give any because the management knows far more about the day-to-day running of the company than they do . |
| 19 | Since then , they have released a couple of impressive extended plays , ‘ Safari ’ and the more recent ‘ Cannonball ’ , and they have just unveiled a new long player in ‘ The Breeders ' Last Splash ’ . |
| 20 | Sampdoria fell behind in Genoa to a goal by Maragos of Panathinaikos in the 27th minute — the Greeks ' first goal in five games in the tournament . |
| 21 | Mike Blaisdell and Rick Brebant both scored three goals to inflict the Pirates ' first defeat in the quarter-finals . |
| 22 | It 's a competition Rangers have dominated in recent years but the holders ' last defeat in any domestic cup match was inflicted BY Hibs two years ago , the year they won the cup at Hampden . |
| 23 | Thomas Dooley scored the Americans ' first goal in 389 minutes of international football just two minutes before half-time . |
| 24 | In 1813 he mentions ‘ our dance , or rather the girls ' first dance ’ and there are many other diary entries showing attendance at Balls at Hawkshead and Ambleside . |
| 25 | Maybe this records the Girls ' first sighting of the nudes ! |
| 26 | By the end of the colleges ' last school year on 31 August , nearly £19 million had been contributed to city technology colleges by the private sector . |
| 27 | It was the champions ' first defeat since losing to Hull in the First Division at the start of April — a run of 13 successive victories . |
| 28 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 29 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 30 | Now the tourists find themselves the underdogs with Will Carling expected to lead England to their third win in the sides ' 10th meeting . |