Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rhondda valleys were now a booming industrial concern , Davies was a millionaire , and the Ocean stood second only to Powell Duffryn as a mass producer of quality Welsh steam coal . |
| 2 | It appeared as though his way back would be painful to say the least but the owners let Homer get on with it and The Committee reappeared last November . |
| 3 | Always in English history bishops were chosen for national reasons and the diocese took second place . |
| 4 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |
| 5 | The announcement a week ago that the company was seeking new equity financing made it pretty clear that the end was nigh for Littleton , Massachusetts-based massively parallel systems builder Alliant Computer Systems Corp , and the company announced last week that the boom has fallen when it fired all but 50 of its 225 employees and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection . |
| 6 | If the exact gross pay is not in the table use the nearest lower figure and the contribution shown next to that lower figure |
| 7 | If someone does pick on you and you ca n't escape without fighting , have the courage to accept that trouble is inevitable , the foresight to check that your escape route is clear , and the resolve to attack first . |
| 8 | And the crunch comes next month when the company has to face the possibility of closing down or selling off the whole business — although this will be a last resort and an acquisition or joint venture may be more likely . |
| 9 | A treaty of guarantee incorporates two distinct and separate obligations for the parties : the obligation to respect the terms of the treaty themselves and the undertaking to compel third parties to do likewise . |
| 10 | The team needs you , Gowie , and the team comes first with me . |
| 11 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 12 | And the nation cheered when the Supreme Court and the Senate voted last week to impeach him . |
| 13 | Elisabeth Leonskaja opts for the second of these views in her performance of No. 1 , and the deliberate- sounding first movement that results is not altogether convincing . |
| 14 | There was a woman in hot-pants who won , I ca n't think why , and a man came second who was dressed as a skeleton who climbed out of a coffin and sang . |
| 15 | But the plan announced last year to close the South Works at Cowley in the nineteen nineties will not be withdrawn . |
| 16 | But the bottle disappeared last week and , despite a thorough search , it has failed to turn up . |
| 17 | You may not knock over the wine , but the person sitting next to you and other members of the audience wo n't listen to your words . |
| 18 | The horse is more steady , but the ox came first , so I think prefer the ox . |
| 19 | But the don sitting next to her was determined to help . |
| 20 | But a spokesman said last night : ‘ A gift of £1 million has also been received from the Emir of Kuwait . |
| 21 | A captain goes last on to his ship , but a man goes first into a tricky situation . |
| 22 | But a report issued last year by the National Radiological Protection Board concluded that although it encouraged further research , there was no reason to link power cables with cancer . |