Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcastle 's success is less easy to explain , for as late as the early sixteenth century its main export commodity was wool , although by the reign of Henry VIII it seems to have expanded its trade in coal , iron and lead ( 59 ; 71 ; 75 , p.45 ) . |
| 2 | But six minutes into the second half their central defender Vickers , who appeared to be standing several yards offside , received a pass from Bishop and his close-range shot levelled the score . |
| 3 | So if that four and a half million was all incurred in the second half its underlying growth rate was something like sixty percent . |
| 4 | M M My Lords , erm on the second point my Noble Friend makes , that 's absolutely true and it really was again quite depressing to see that erm er a member in in in the and the other place Mr Don Foster on behalf of the Liberals , had actually written to every single Chief Education Officer er concerning anti er concerning campaigning against er the opting out policy , as to the other point my Noble Friend makes , it 's absolutely true that erm all the service that have been done and there 's one very recently reported , that the amount of value for money o obtained for every single grant maintained school outstrips the L E A maintained schools . |
| 5 | While this does not prove that the first group of subjects were using their left hemisphere and the second group their right hemisphere the results are at least consistent with such a supposition . |
| 6 | GORDON Edwards ( Bromborough ) , who never seems to lose his form with the passing of years , won the English Open Seniors Championship for the second time his first success was in 1988 . |
| 7 | By the eighteenth century his fascinating contortion of viewing the English landscape was all the rage . |
| 8 | In the eighteenth century his simple accomplishments were enough to shine out in a world of darkness . |
| 9 | Since its conversion to a dwelling house in the late 19th century its impressive list of distinguished tenants has included Bertrand Russell the mathematician and philosopher and Henry Morris , founder of the famous system of Village Colleges still in use throughout the county . |
| 10 | London was the greatest town in England , and during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries its economic resources increased more markedly than those of most other parts of the country . |
| 11 | But as he began his sixth day his silent vigil ended . |
| 12 | Nu made his first priority his public insistence of confidence in the Governor and the British Government . |
| 13 | Best advice is first approach your existing insurance company and ask what terms they will give you . |
| 14 | One gentleman said that on his 65th birthday his sole thought had been , not the hope that his grandchildren would send a card , but that never again would the manilla envelope summoning him to do jury service tumble through his letterbox . |
| 15 | First order your two stock cultures . |
| 16 | On Jan. 27 the Pakistan government announced for the first time its full support for the UN peace plan [ see p. 38194 ] and the conference , and called upon the mujaheddin to follow its lead . |
| 17 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 18 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
| 19 | The first time your little bit of news gets on the Six o'clock News or your client is a member of a panel discussion , you will have arrived professionally . |
| 20 | He followed her into the sitting room , and noticed for the first time his packed bag . |
| 21 | Darley 's suspension could prove a major blow in his quest to ride 100 winners in a season for the first time his 16 year career . |
| 22 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 23 | The Great Powers had been continually driven by the competition among themselves , but in the last decades of the nineteenth century their intensified rivalries included a host of newcomers — Germany and Italy , the two newest Great Powers in Europe , and , close behind , the United States and , in the Far East , Japan . |
| 24 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 25 | In dropping Pierre Berbizier ( his captain and until last Saturday his likely successor as coach ) , Serge Blanco , Laurent Rodriguez and every commentator 's nightmare , Jean Condom , Fouroux 's guillotine has been severe . |
| 26 | Next moment their wraithlike figures had darted out of sight among the trees like two startled deer . |
| 27 | If you can imagine your front room full of concrete , erm , one minute your sat there watching the telly , the next minute your front room 's full of concrete , that is just what it was like . |
| 28 | Last October his political career seemed over when , at its Harrogate conference , the party adopted a proabortion stance , which he believed to be repugnant . |
| 29 | Cologne fell to the Americans on 6 March , and next day their advance units reached Remagen on the Rhine . |
| 30 | The TDC confirmed last night its chief executive Duncan Hall has already had talks with Stockton Borough Council leader Bob Gibson , paving the way for an ‘ imminent ’ announcement . |