Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was the granddaughter of some forgotten Prussian nobleman and she and her husband had once owned a beautiful sixteenth century castle overlooking the town of Assmannshausen in the Rhine Valley before selling it in favour of their present mansion on the outskirts of Berlin . |
| 2 | Figs 4 and 5 contain two fingerings often used by Yngwie for diminished arpeggios : Fig 4 ascends using sweep picked six-note groups while fig 5 descends using a sixteenth note sequence involving a good deal of left-hand position shifting . |
| 3 | A second complexity factor concerns the sensitivity of success rates to the sizes of the numbers and the relationships between them , the measure and units in use and the measuring instrument chosen or provided . |
| 4 | Since the second Vatican Council modernised the Church and began to discourage the cult of relics , their religious power has seeped away . |
| 5 | The second difficulty factor concerns the nature of the answer — whether it is a whole number , involves a half or is a more awkward decimal . |
| 6 | Second division Action recorded a superb 2-1 success at first division Seymour ( Paul Brown ) , Tony Dixon and Alan Anderson scoring in a fine team display . |
| 7 | They failed to meet the League 's noon deadline to provide assurances they could continue and tomorrow 's Coca-Cola Cup tie at Reading has been cancelled with the Second Division side getting a bye . |
| 8 | EXTREME 'S second hit album combines the pomp of Queen with the power of Metallica . |
| 9 | The diagram shows the second transfer tool taking the three stitches from right to the three empty needles at the left . |
| 10 | Another defeat , this time by Wigan , was the 13th of the season at Feethams , with Bury scoring a second half winner to finish the away programme on a sad note the 16th on tour . |
| 11 | CSKA Moscow 's Ilshat Fayzullin thwarted Marseille 's hopes of two vital points in Group A of the European Cup with a second half goal to level the scores 1–1 . |
| 12 | Of course the pace of the game will be different , the level of skills much lower , but you can bet your granny 's pension that if the second team game need a thumping tackle to be made , then Peter Winterbottom would make it . |
| 13 | Nineteenth August — the 1st Commando Brigade left the area south of Bavent and set off in pursuit of the enemy . |
| 14 | The idea of co-operative course planning grew naturally out of this commitment to mixed ability teaching and in October 1976 a second staff conference embraced the idea that an emphasis should be placed on ‘ the learning process in all courses ’ . |
| 15 | This was another remarkable achievement since she was only the second woman solicitor to become a Recorder , a position totally dominated by barristers and by men . |
| 16 | Shortly before the joint statement was issued , Coopers & Lybrand became what is thought to be only the second US firm to file a countersuit against a former client . |
| 17 | Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status . |
| 18 | In Ireland the prospect of playing in the second World Cup brought the arm-wrestling contest between the powerful Irish Universities and the students union to an end . |
| 19 | The Second World War forced the United States out of its isolationist past and onto the world stage as the leading capitalist economy . |
| 20 | The Second World War added no territory to the Empire , but it left British troops in occupation of the Italian empire in Africa , and the Dutch and French empires in the Far East . |
| 21 | It is often assumed that the Second World War had a more radicalizing impact on British politics than the First . |
| 22 | Major Bradley of the Bryn Tyrch Hotel in Capel Curig helped the local man to acquire the skills of protective ropework , and Evan spent the Second World War training the Commandos and the Lovat Scouts to climb . |
| 23 | The arrival of universal pension provision following the Second World War laid the foundation for age discrimination against all women aged 60 or over and men aged 65 or over . |
| 24 | But the circumstances of the Second World War lessened the gap between the privileged and the less privileged on the home front , between the rich and the poor . |
| 25 | Sadly , the Second World War took a heavy toll , especially in cities like Cologne , Ulm , Hildesheim and Lübeck . |
| 26 | The decade after the end of the Second World War saw a substantial increase in the number of prosecutions for offences such as ‘ gross indecency ’ , importuning and indecent assault . |
| 27 | The Second World War saw the end of piano manufacture , the works turned over to the production of aircraft parts by the Gloucester Aircraft Company , but after the war , piano manufacture started up again . |
| 28 | For a while the breed flourished and became a regular winner of dairy-class prizes , but the Second World War saw the start of a decline , though the breed society was revitalised in 1948 . |
| 29 | The decades following the Second World War saw an historically unprecedented growth in retirement at a fixed age for all social classes . |
| 30 | Just as the weakening of the Ottoman hold on the Balkans had drawn the great powers into regional competition , so the weakening of Britain 's hold on the Middle East , particularly Palestine , at the end of the Second World War drew the United States and the Soviet Union into the region , and also sucked neighbouring Arab states into the Palestine conflict . |