Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 2 | President Roh Tae Woo became the first South Korean head of state to make an official trip to the Soviet Union when he arrived in Moscow on Dec. 13 at the beginning of a four-day visit . |
| 3 | ‘ The bad news is that they want to see a first draft script within three weeks . ’ |
| 4 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 5 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 6 | Distinction Awards are Postgraduate studentships which are open to students ordinarily resident anywhere in the UK , who hold or expect to obtain a 1st class Honours degree and who have not previously obtained a postgraduate research award . |
| 7 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 8 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 9 | Auto-repeat recalls the last programme used . |
| 10 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 11 | Langbaurgh is still a key marginal and if the Tories want to form the next Government , it 's seat like these they need to win and to win well . |
| 12 | Then they came and said , ‘ We want to do a second album ’ , and I really did n't want to do it , because I do n't want to be the next , let's say , Joe Satriani or Eric Johnson , even though those guys are really successful in their field . |
| 13 | The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members , so they want to land the first blows . |
| 14 | Some insurers , such as Perrysurance and Pickfords , have also introduced cover for legal expenses if you want to pursue a third party . |
| 15 | That is the very year that Manchester , spearheaded by Anne , want to host the first Olympics of the new century . |
| 16 | BOWLS : Scotland 's Hugh Duff , the 1988 world indoor singles champion making a second title bid , cruised into the second round of the Midland Bank 's £135,000 tournament at the Guild Hall , Preston , yesterday , defeating Northern Ireland teenager Ian McClure 3–1 . |
| 17 | This time we want to make the 1st division . |
| 18 | Huggett ( 1976b ) also noted that the systems of the atoms-to-planet and the atoms-to-societies hierarchies commingle to produce a third hierarchy which is the hierarchy of environmental systems . |
| 19 | If you want to skip the first quest in The Legend of Zelda on the NES , you can go straight on to the second one by entering Zelda as your name on the initial screen . |
| 20 | The brother and sister , from Waverton , Chester , hope to win a first prize in the contest of free membership to the RSPCA 's Animal Action Club . |
| 21 | On the eve of the ballot both camps expressed confidence about the outcome : Mrs Thatcher 's team anticipated gaining sufficient votes to win outright : Heseltine 's followers asserted that he had enough support to force a second ballot . |
| 22 | And if there were n't enough Mansoori boys of the right age for Mansoori girls then the answer was either spinsterhood or a long wait to become the second wife of an older man . |
| 23 | Governors at Gillbrook School in South Bank hope to become the first grant maintained school in the North-East . |
| 24 | Then the two , who hope to become the first men to walk 2,200 miles unsupported across Antarctica , battled on to set up a camp and radio their base . |
| 25 | I usually put my ribber carriage against the garter bar as this helps to keep it in its slightly precarious position while I finish knitting the first side . |
| 26 | Midland Air Museum at Coventry have produced a limited edition ( 500 ) print to mark the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the Gloster E28/39 — a lovely watercolour by Ken Aitken . |
| 27 | But here the Common Law Courts manage to get the last word ; for they acquired the power , in the fifteenth century , to decide whether the writ is good or not , and if not , the fact that the plaintiff has got the writ will not help him . |
| 28 | ‘ Being very lazy by nature , I enjoy making the first sketches , but the practical precision , the mathematical measuring necessary to carry out the design and the extreme neatness required , both of which I am very bad at , I find irksome . |
| 29 | ‘ Drug barons frequently seem to have a sixth sense where the police are concerned . |
| 30 | Some birds manage to nest a second time within the season , and it is these birds , again with recent experience , which breed at the end of the season . |