Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If applying two coats , lightly rub down the first coat when it is dry to form a good key for the second coat . |
| 2 | A friend of both of them , who has watched this unhappy saga unfold over the last decade , now concedes : ‘ I am sorry for the tragedy of it all . |
| 3 | The British Government should withdraw its objection to the provisions of Article 20 of the proposed Regulation — provision for a discretionary aid to encourage farm afforestation and the improvement of existing farm woodland — and implement only the second provision in the UK . |
| 4 | For everyone else , it really does n't matter , because the detective work is going to lead to applications for us today , as disciples who follow in the footsteps of Matthew the apostle and whoever it was who put together the first gospel of the New testament . |
| 5 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 6 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 7 | POST Office workers put up a first class performance blasting round Britain 's fastest motor racing circuits in a Royal Mail delivery van . |
| 8 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 9 | Cos if you cut out the first oboe part , you 're in a little bit |
| 10 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 11 | Such knowledge will be the basis of the advice we give in the next chapter for promoting adjustment after a time-zone transition . |
| 12 | Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold … |
| 13 | Bernstein , Kearsley & Zapas ( BKZ ) , however , consider only the first term of such an expansion and write ( Compare the form of this with the Boltzmann expression ( 3.5 ) . ) |
| 14 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 15 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 16 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 17 | But consider now the second stage of the argument . |
| 18 | Their eyes open around the ninth day . |
| 19 | If the incapacity is lengthy , or becomes permanent , examine closely the third party 's job prospects , if possible , within his present employment and the possibility of obtaining alternative employment . |
| 20 | I am inclined to doubt it , but let us not linger , and consider instead the second premiss of the argument . |
| 21 | Then bring up every 20th needle on the ribber to working position . |
| 22 | With the bolt in the hole , bring up the second part of the joint , and mark round the circumference of the bolt . |
| 23 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 24 | Pick up the second edge of the band keeping the stitches in the hooks again , then knit them through . |
| 25 | Thus , the study emphasises the role of social attitudes in second language learning , ie. attitudes towards learning the second language itself and towards the native speakers who make up the second language community . |
| 26 | And though the visit could have given him an opportunity to kill his father , and then drive down the next day to discover the body , that was the one crime which every logical motive screamed against . |
| 27 | Paying independently for research would be far too expensive , and as Payne acknowledges candidly , ‘ If we 're paying commissions and thus get literally the first call on the telephone , we have an edge when it comes to news items . |
| 28 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 29 | You know like the last time |
| 30 | But I mean a mother that could n't sleep all night , and get up the next day , having to cope with the family , erm you know , thing things like that , they 're very difficult . |