Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunderland has the fourth highest number of smoking related deaths in the U K. Low birth weights are more common . |
| 2 | Clacton has the third highest rate in Britain . |
| 3 | Wolverhampton has the fifth highest overheads of any education authority in England . |
| 4 | Richards Shipbuilders has the first four Gem-class minesweepers under construction in its East Anglian yards at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft . |
| 5 | Mexico has the seventh largest oil and gas reserves in the world but the country 's comparatively recent admission to the hydrocarbon élite has proved a mixed blessing in the face of the fall in crude prices and a massive debt burden caused by extravagant , ill-managed and grandiose schemes to kick a Third World country into the twentieth century . |
| 6 | Surprisingly , Northern Ireland has the third highest death rate from skin cancer in the world . |
| 7 | Standish examines the first two difficulties ; the third is not surprising given Neptune 's long orbital period , 165 years ( so that not even one orbit has been completed since it was discovered ) . |
| 8 | Canada has the eighth largest coal resources in the world and the eighth largest gas reserves . |
| 9 | Paul Merton has the first post-modern catchphrase . |
| 10 | If correct — and Samuel says a second Soviet team has independently arrived at the same figure — it lowers the previous estimate by only one per cent . |
| 11 | Robert Stevenson checks the first few metres of each weaving when it is removed from the loom . |
| 12 | Cleaning baths , probe systems , submersible transducers , whistle reactors and tube reactors are described and illustrated by Mason , while Goodwin discusses the first two methods with details of other larger scale equipment . |
| 13 | A measure of the scheme 's effectiveness is that the United Kingdom has the fifth highest drug prices in Europe ( about where we should expect to be ) . |
| 14 | Excluding Belgium , the United Kingdom has the second lowest life expectancy for females in the Community , but as Table 3 demonstrates , the differences are small . |
| 15 | Consistently , Owen rhymes the last two words in the fifth and seventh lines of each stanza , which is very effective . |
| 16 | Malaysia has the fourteenth largest gas reserves in the world at some 926 MTOE . |
| 17 | Egypt has the second largest population in Africa ( after Nigeria ) and in 1983 was the fourth largest oil producer . |
| 18 | It is claimed that Altrincham has the second highest capital income in the country . |
| 19 | In terms of per capita income Norway has the second highest standard of living in Europe . |
| 20 | Peru has the seventh largest tropical forest mass in the world . |
| 21 | Britain has the second highest percentage of tree damage after Czechoslovakia . |
| 22 | ‘ Britain has the second highest level of taxes on alcohol in the EC and many are suffering as a result , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Pivoting in P2/T2 gives the first two rows of P2/T3 . |
| 24 | Italy acquires a second government-recognised conservation school |
| 25 | Fish features strongly as nearby Newlyn has the third highest fish landings in England . |
| 26 | In terms of recoverable energy reserves India has the tenth largest coal reserves in the world while Pakistan has gas reserves almost as large as the UK , yet economic growth in both countries is hampered by recurrent energy shortages — particularly electricity — while the cost of importing oil is a severe drain on weak exchequers . |
| 27 | Suppose the worst comes to the worst and Wilko becomes the next English manager who would take over at Leeds ? |
| 28 | Third place went to Johnnie Rea who was the only rider likely to catch King in the championship but even if Rea wins the next four rounds — both at Bishopscourt — King can not be caught . |
| 29 | As for the future , McIntosh says the next few years will be easier . |
| 30 | It may seem appropriate that since VR marks the first true merging of technology and imagination , it is sometimes hard to tell where current technology ends and its imagined future begins . |