Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [art] [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people have a party on January 6 and eat a special Twelfth Night cake . |
| 2 | Then , in 1965 , Derry was confronted with the Government 's decision to accept the recommendation of the Lockwood Report and site the proposed second university for Northern Ireland in Coleraine — despite the fact that Derry already had a focus for third-level education in Magee College . |
| 3 | Marks and Spencer was second with 14% of the vote , Glaxo third with 11% and Shell a distant sixth with just 4.1% . |
| 4 | When I knit a stocking stitch tension square , instead of marking the 21st stitch on each side of centre 0 on the 30th row , I transfer these stitches at the beginning of the swatch , placing them on to needle number 22 on each side and pushing the empty 21st needles to non-working position . |
| 5 | It simulates the bit of the search space which is rooted at the current state , and plans an acceptable next move . |
| 6 | Archery : Junior Michael Peart , 16 , from the Deben Club competed in the senior section in the Essex County Indoor championships and finished a fine third behind R Jones , of Racketts , and T Preston , of Braintree . |
| 7 | They were sponsored every inch of the way and finished a resounding 55th . |
| 8 | With Niki well back and holding an honourable third place on a circuit unsuited to the Ferraris , only three points separated champion and aspirant as the FI family headed for Japan . |
| 9 | The following two seasons saw a steady improvement in team performance , consolidating their fourteenth position from the previous season and finishing a creditable ninth ( out of ten ) in 36/37 . |
| 10 | Lisburn 's Anne Terek won the ladies ' section from Avril Magee ( Annadale Striders ) with new mum Ursula McGloin making a return to racing and finishing an excellent third . |
| 11 | The lower age limit on party membership was reduced to 16 ; this came after the party lost 700,000 members since reconstituting itself and coming a humiliating fourth place in the national elections in March and April [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 12 | It was found that 599 ( 56 per cent ) were classifiable as ‘ new cases ’ , that is , as not being known to any of the agencies in the first survey , and having no known first contact date with an agency prior to April 1985 . |
| 13 | At the same time , the Army Group led by Archduke Joseph Ferdinand , was to confront and hold the Russian Fifth Army , and the Austrian Second and Third armies were to strike eastward . |
| 14 | Ted was signed for the Palace by Manager Jack Tresadern from Preston in the summer of 1934 and had a magnificent first season , only prevented from making full appearances by an injury sustained in our Christmas Day fixture at Torquay . |
| 15 | But any hope he might have had of sliding his arm round her and trying a tentative first kiss on the drive home was scotched when she fell asleep the moment she got into the car . |
| 16 | Rangers kick off their campaign against the French champions in Glasgow on Wednesday week , as they begin their quest to win the group and reach the final next May . |
| 17 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 18 | Finally , compounds which function as verbs and have an adverbial first element take final stress : |
| 19 | All started later than the network companies and missed the dreadful first year . |
| 20 | His first taste of Test captaincy came at the Oval in 1988 ; he was unable to stem the West Indian flood , but produced a battling second innings to make a game of it . |
| 21 | She did not want to be named , but told The Northern last night : ‘ I left the CTC for a variety of reasons . |
| 22 | It has the same written compass as the standard clarinet but sounds a major sixth lower . |
| 23 | No he said do n't give them in yet , but do the informal first , so I 'll do the informal , we 've got to do an informal |