Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throw the blue object onto the button , go left , fall down and cross the river on the cakes , go up on the ice cream , go right , fall down , cross the river on the cake , climb up via the platforms and lifts to the top of the map , jump onto the wall to the left , fall down one platform , stand on the lift moving left to right , collect the cocoa bean and fall down , go right , cross the first river on the cake , and the second on the platforms , when you 're on top of the wall next to the second river . |
| 2 | The second of the views we have noted derives from a claim that the route to indubitable knowledge is not through empirical experience of the external world , but through logical , that is rational , principles which are beyond doubt . |
| 3 | Luckily Billy saw Harriet leave , carrying the second of the cubs , and followed her at a distance . |
| 4 | We suggest an alternative wording for the second of the proposals : ‘ - to recycle valuable coastal land which has become redundant , e.g. the regeneration of rundown coastal towns and ports ; and … ’ |
| 5 | Here was the source of the Committee members ' indecision and the second of the factors which decided the matter in Franco 's favour . |
| 6 | Supporters of the second of the principles above will have a slightly different answer . |
| 7 | The earldom of Derby was conferred on Henry of Grosmont , son and heir of the Earl of Lancaster , and Hugh Audley , the old rival of the Despensers , received the earldom of Gloucester , to which he had a claim by virtue of his marriage to the second of the coheiresses of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester who fell at Bannockburn . |
| 8 | Changes in the social structure of the village community — that is , the second of the meanings outlined above — are , however , more amenable to generalization , although even here there are considerable difficulties . |
| 9 | InteWord , the second of the packages sent for inspection , follows the same overall command structure as InteCalc , essential for modular integration , but suffers from many of the same limitations . |
| 10 | However , this line of argument still leaves unanswered the question why strikes are presented as they are , which brings us to the second of the points Hyman raised . |
| 11 | The contrasting pattern characteristic of Wernicke 's aphasia and illustrated by the second of the patients of Funnell ( 1983 ) — whose attempt at a description of Figure 15 we also quoted earlier in this chapter — could be interpreted , in terms of Garrett 's model , as arising when there is a defect of the process which selects the required major lexical items from the lexicon . |
| 12 | By contrast the second of the appeals concerned a young couple who had signed separate , but identical , agreements with respect to a flat which stipulated that they were not to have exclusive possession . |
| 13 | But in order to avoid having to rely on a null result , Honey and Hall ( 1989 c ) conducted a further study which attempted to eliminate problems of this sort by making use of the second of the within-subjects designs presented in Table 5.1 . |
| 14 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 15 | Theda 's hands rubbed furiously at one of the posts of the bed in the second of the chambers she had tackled in the last unnumbered days . |
| 16 | A moment later he saw the second of the men go down with a sharp groan , clutching his balls . |
| 17 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 18 | During the two-hundred-year period from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth-centuries plague swept Europe , different countries reacting in different ways . |
| 19 | He was due for release next year but ran off on May the 4th from a prisoners ' training camp at Simonds Yat on the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire Border . |
| 20 | Indeed , neither team was to prove a serious contender for the title with Jay Sigel , who played in the singles match against Jim Milligan , going the furthest — being knocked out at the 19th in the quarter-finals . |
| 21 | I hope he get 's a right roasting at Ewok Park on the 24th from the fans . |
| 22 | Though Bede considered Oswald 's brother and successor , Oswiu , to have been the sixth of the overlords of the Anglo-Saxons ( HE 11 , 5 ) , it is clear that it was many years before Oswiu could securely establish himself as king even over all the northern Angles let alone as overlord of his southern neighbours and that this latter position was very short-lived . |
| 23 | The players will train at Bradford next week and have three days together in Wales prior to the game the first between the countries since England won convincingly at Ebbw Vale eight years ago . |
| 24 | The agreement is the first between the nations since a 1970s pact on polar bear hunting . |
| 25 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |
| 26 | At 2.50 , the first of the royals will travel the half mile from the castle gates in the wedding procession . |
| 27 | In other words , in the circumstances of the present case the wishes and feelings of W. , considered in the light of her age and understanding , are the first of the factors to which the court must have regard , but the court must have regard also to such of the other factors as may be relevant when discharging its overall responsibility for W. 's welfare . |
| 28 | Sir Edmond had been the first of the Goldsmiths to found a School but his example was soon followed . |
| 29 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 30 | He was lying on the large double bed with the first of the ice-packs over one side of his face . |