Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within its boundaries Blackbird Leys , where the scenes of last summer sent law and order to the top of the political agenda . |
| 2 | We have decided that in April 1992 there will be a flat rate reduction of £2 rather than the £3 of last year . |
| 3 | Clacton won at Coggeshall by five wickets , but the champions then tumbled to a nine wicket reverse at home to Braintree the following day — their fourth loss of the season and one more than the whole of last summer ! |
| 4 | Recent experiments using chicks as ‘ predators ’ , and coloured , distasteful crumbs as prey , indicate that although the chicks at first eat the brightly coloured , aposematic , crumbs more quickly than cryptic ( inconspicuous ) crumbs , they also learn to avoid distasteful crumbs more quickly when they are brightly coloured than when they are cryptic ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 5 | Although the authorities at first said the assailants were not directly linked with the FIS , in a television interview on Dec. 6 the Defence Minister , Maj.-Gen. |
| 6 | In what seems a somewhat specious argument , she urges Leo to bathe with her in the fire so that their mortal sins may be purged : but although the fire at first seems to do her no harm as she shows him the way into it , the self-seeking nature of her love becomes evident as her ageless beauty is destroyed : |
| 7 | Although the results of last year 's Readathon have not yet been announced — the money collected by schools is still coming in — the numbers taking part in the sponsored read are as follows : well over 2,000 schools took part , involving some 17,000 classrooms and nearly 500,000 children , who read 1.25 million books . |
| 8 | West Germany has a constitutional obligation to accept East Germans , so the parallel with Third World economic and environmental refugees is not exact . |
| 9 | The fern moved slightly in the breeze , but along the path there was nothing to be seen except a scatter of last year 's fallen acorns under an oak . |
| 10 | That makes the investment look like little more than a punt on First Fidelity 's shares — a profitable punt , perhaps , but a punt nonetheless . |
| 11 | GRAEME SOUNESS may yet realise his lifelong ambition of leading out an FA Cup Final team despite entering hospital yesterday for a triple by-pass heart operation which will keep him away from Anfield until the start of next season . |
| 12 | Errol has been handed a three-game ban by the Ulster Branch 's Disciplinary Committee , after receiving three yellow cards during the season — but because his club have finished their programme , the ban wo n't take effect until the start of next season . |
| 13 | If a club has finished its league and cup programme , then it has also been practice that any ban imposed wo n't take effect until the start of next season , so as not to prevent the player taking part in close-season and pre-season tournaments . |
| 14 | For the next four months , Branson watched the exchange rate with uncommon interest and trepidation , until the pound at last began to climb penny by agonising penny against the dollar . |
| 15 | ‘ If the lady from next door had n't come with her yoo-hooing you 'd be a different person now . ’ |
| 16 | Hammond Wilde had been adamant that if a tie for first place forced a ‘ sudden death ’ play-off he would not allow the leaders to disappear out on the course . |
| 17 | Since the date of last year 's report , we have also seen the retirement from the board of Ray Knowland , Sir Campbell Fraser and James Ross . |
| 18 | Since the advent of third party service companies , however , price competitiveness has become an important issue . |
| 19 | To do that , China , with a foreign debt of over $40 billion and with precious few new foreign credits since the bloodshed of last June , needs foreign trade and foreign friends . |
| 20 | ‘ Since the reforms from Third World markets are so small , it does n't matter if they do n't come , therefore we could donate these genes to the Third World ’ , he says , and supports a new initiative by a former deputy director of the International Wheat and Maize Centre ( CIMMYT ) to set up a gene brokerage between the rich and poor nations . |
| 21 | Centre-half Ian Marshall , who has been playing up front since the start of last month , is out for three weeks after breaking a finger and Neil McDonald is likely to miss the Middlesbrough game with hamstring trouble . |
| 22 | WHILST the accounts from last year 's World Cup are still not available , I.B. Secretary Keith Rowlands asserted in Catania recently that RWC profits would be more than the paltry £3 million mooted earlier this year by fellow director Marcel Martin . |
| 23 | After the success of last year 's scheme , staff will , from 2 November , be able to claim 15% discount on all books , cards and gifts from the shop . |
| 24 | Assuming sows and gilts remain in the service house until after the point of first return then there is a total requirement of 14 paddocks each containing two huts capable of holding eight to nine sows each . |
| 25 | After the controversy over last week 's leak I would not have announced our move and I did not reveal it at our annual meeting . |
| 26 | After a bar of eighth notes comes a pair of sixteenths followed by a quarter 's rest , then a long , low root — just right ! |
| 27 | What 's going to happen when the size of sixth forms shrinks ? |
| 28 | As we have seen , it was not until 1102 that he had the possibility of holding a council ; but when the opportunity at last arrived , he applied all his talents and energies to the task . |
| 29 | When the ice at last melted and the seas rose , Sri Lanka had not only drifted apart from its parent India , it had become cut off by an ocean gap of approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) . |
| 30 | When the dinosaurs at last died off they could , for the first time , roam about increasingly in the daylight hours . |