Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I actually bought the Levin because my first choice was unavailable . |
| 2 | Apologising for not being in Northern Ireland since his first concert three years ago , he added : ‘ I 'm sorry it took me so long to get back . |
| 3 | Haymo , although selected by the monks of Rochester as their next choice had to wait until August 1319 , before he was consecrated Bishop . |
| 4 | When Meg arrived at Uppark as its first chatelaine in many a year she found all the original fabrics in place , but hanging , through neglect , ‘ like grey seaweed ’ . |
| 5 | On present evidence , that would be welcome : a reunited Germany with Mr Kohl as its first chancellor is likely to be more prosperous , and stabler , than it would be under the Social Democrats . |
| 6 | So did women — but more , they admired her : for being pregnant with Tyson while her first record climbed the charts ; for cradling her two-month infant through ‘ Manchild ’ ; then for celebrating all of that on ‘ Inner City Mamma ’ , a song dedicated to the strength of working mothers . |
| 7 | The scandal 's single and notorious poem , read out by Owen as his last word at the hearings , was supposed to be about Nicaragua , but again this was no real country . |
| 8 | Canada on Jan. 1 formally joined the OAS as its 33rd member , having held observer status since 1972 . |
| 9 | I must admit , I miss it myself , though I regard Italy as my second home … ’ |
| 10 | The governing Socialist Party ( PS ) elected Laurent Fabius as its first secretary on Jan. 9 in succession to Pierre Mauroy , who had tendered his resignation two days earlier . |
| 11 | The session reviewed the work carried out by the LFNC since its second congress and adopted a plan of action for 1991-92 . |
| 12 | Julia found herself wanting to get to know her better , quite certain by then that whatever there had been between Suvarov and Felicity while his first wife was alive it had not been the kind of affair David had assumed . |
| 13 | On Jan. 11 , 1991 , Macao acceded to GATT as its 101st member [ see p. 37979 ] . |
| 14 | On April 6th , unbeknown to the Hohenzollern Crown Prince , he was asking Crown Prince Rupprecht whether his Sixth Army might not be able to carry out a swift blow at Arras , against the British Army , whose anticipated ( by Falkenhayn ) relief attack had not yet materialised . |
| 15 | Misfortune struck Sir John when his second wife died ; she received the same treatment as his first spouse . |
| 16 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |