Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of this vast quantity of building which was achieved between 146 B.C. and A.D. 476 only a small fraction exists today and often this is in the best condition in the provinces of the Empire , despite the fact that the examples were generally less magnificent . |
| 2 | It was eight o'clock the following morning when Ben came back from the town . |
| 3 | There was a long night ahead of him , and he would not be relieved until eight o'clock the following morning when Ben Thompson arrived . |
| 4 | At eleven o'clock the following morning , Buzz sat down on the blue chair by Elinor 's bedroom window , pulled the kitchen timer from the pocket of her navy cotton dress , and set it to twenty minutes : the mechanism began to tick in an irritating way . |
| 5 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 6 | In 174 BC the Roman architect Decimus Cossutius , son of Poplius , worked on the construction of the temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens , a project sponsored by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV . |
| 7 | Matches were played against local hearing teams , and after a promising start , the club almost folded in 1879 following a disastrous season but was re-organised , and has since gone from strength to strength , with various changes in name . |
| 8 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 9 | Preparations for unification of the two Yemens , which had received major impetus from the summit meeting in December 1989 following publication of a draft joint constitution [ see p. 37138 ] , moved forward with the opening of the border ( announced on Jan. 22 following a three-day meeting at Prime Ministerial level ) and a visit to Aden , capital of South Yemen ( the People 's Democratic Republic ) , by the President of North Yemen ( the Yemen Arab Republic ) , Col. Ali Abdullah Saleh , on Feb. 18 . |
| 10 | I read in Acts 2 how the Holy Spirit came upon the church , resulting in the disciples declaring the wonders of God . |
| 11 | The limit had been imposed on Jan. 22 when the controversial withdrawal of high-denomination banknotes was announced . |
| 12 | The Welsh club were leading 2-1 when the original tie at St James Park was abandoned following floodlight failure five minutes from time . |
| 13 | Warburg , whose scholarly tradition was transferred to London in 1933 when the entire library was moved there , has provided a link between London and Hamburg which shows every sign of strengthening over the coming years . |
| 14 | This can be illustrated by Lord Denning 's approach in Crowther v Shannon Motor Co [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 30 where a used Jaguar car with over 82,000 miles on the clock was driven for three weeks covering 2,300 miles before it broke down with engine seizure . |
| 15 | Through the township of Yavas , over the bridge of rusted steel that crosses the river , and past Camp 11 and Camp 2 where the Central Investigation Prison has been built with concrete to house those who face interrogation for misdemeanours committed within the barbed wire and free-fire corridors . |
| 16 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 17 | It will be Ballymena 's first trip to Brandywell since that infamous day in 1972 when a United bus was subjected to an arson attack . |
| 18 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 19 | But Holly and eight hundred with him had a roof over their Kitchen , and there would be a roof over Hut 2 when the freezing night came . |
| 20 | 2 When the only survivor from the American Air Force raft got back to Florida , he was interviewed by excited press reporters . |
| 21 | The committee 's decision was endorsed on Oct. 2 when the full Senate voted by 90 to nine to confirm Souter 's appointment . |
| 22 | A genuine improvement rather than the cosmetic change of renaming took place in Pocklington during the century after 1780 when the old timber , mud and thatch buildings were gradually replaced by newer homes , shops and public buildings that were constructed of brick and roofed with pantiles or slates . |
| 23 | Mujaheddin attacks on Kabul in October 1989 killed and injured many people including at least 30 when a surface-to-surface missile struck a bus shelter in a busy shopping district of old Kabul on Oct. 10 . |
| 24 | Fifteen years of one-party rule ended formally on Nov. 30 when a new Constitution came into effect which provided for multiparty democracy and a free-market economy . |
| 25 | Ian Gow , Conservative member of Parliament for Eastbourne since 1974 , was killed on July 30 when an Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb exploded underneath his car as he was preparing to leave his home in the village of Hankham , near Eastbourne in Sussex . |
| 26 | The curve for atactic polypropylene is shown in figure 12.9 where the abrupt increase in c p at about 260 K , corresponds to the glass transition . |
| 27 | 1993 was the date of the gift and this is later than 1991 so the relevant period is 1993 to 1998 . |
| 28 | If the death has taken place before 13/11/74 all the normal estate duty rules apply . |
| 29 | Both she and Graham agreed there was little else they could do that night and when he telephoned through to report to UNACO headquarters he was told a company Cessna would be waiting at six o'clock the following morning to fly them on to Geneva , the nearest airport to Lausanne . |
| 30 | About 189 B.C. the Roman general Publius became mad in the panhellenic sanctuary of Naupactus and began to utter oracles in good Greek about the end of Roman rule : a king would come from Asia to take revenge for what the Romans had done to the Greeks . |