Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
| 2 | The phone wo n't ring because there 's a two-second delay to get you into the device . |
| 3 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 4 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 5 | The second key let them into a vaulted stone cellar , and groping torch in hand along the far wall behind the piled casks of wine , Thomas brushed the cobwebs from a low , insignificant door . |
| 6 | At the resumed hearing a nolle prosequi was entered pursuant to section 4(1) of the Criminal Justice ( Administration ) Act The defendant was tried on a second indictment charging him with murder , convicted and sentenced to death . |
| 7 | The Cup and League Double had eluded the most ambitious clubs ever since Aston Villa became the second club to achieve it in 1897 , in a less competitive era . |
| 8 | By providing Japan with the opportunity to save face and make an orderly withdrawal from drift-net fishing , the UN Second Committee bound them into a commitment to cease drift-net operations in the near future — an astonishing achievement for a campaign which had only really gathered momentum 10 months earlier , with the sinking of the Sankichi Maru . |
| 9 | Hungary 's Democratic Forum , whose Hungary-first populism puts it on the right , also objects to the pace of reform that the Free Democrats want . |
| 10 | The second point involves us in a difficulty . |
| 11 | The second disc finds him in the company of an enlarged band , basically his regular four piece augmented by the likes of keyboardist Chuck Leavell , Phil Palmer on guitar , percussionist Ray Cooper and singers Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon , running through pieces like ‘ Wonderful Tonight ’ which at nine minutesplus is somewhat overextended . |
| 12 | The second plaintiff to remove itself from the action was Thai Farmers Bank , of which the judge in the case commented : ‘ The other development is more disturbing in that from January 1983 the local manager of Thai Farmers Bank began to provide to other banks references for Berg which either misrepresented the true position of Berg 's accounts with Thai Farmers Bank or at the least concealed the true position without making it clear that there was highly relevant information about Berg which they were declining to give . |
| 13 | And this time there is no second match to get anyone off the hook ! |
| 14 | A second charge accused him of having between the same dates — July 1 and August 20 , 1993 — attempted to force Mr McIvor to refrain from giving evidence at the trial of Stephen Wilson . |
| 15 | In fact , his second wife outlived him by a quarter of a century . |
| 16 | The second policeman lowers it into a plastic bag . |
| 17 | After a roof-top walkabout on the terraces we viewed ‘ Towards 2000 ’ a promotional video describing the dramatic changes that are taking place at the £500m investment site of Terminal 2 , part of a complex that employs over 10,000 people ( 30,000 projected for the year 2005 ) and is set to expand with a second runway taking it from a regional role into the top 20 of world airports . |
| 18 | The start of our second week takes us to the Nappa Valley and the heart of California 's cheese and wine country . |
| 19 | Reeling from the onslaught , he toppled forward but managed to keep his feet until a second attack pinned him to the wall and held him there . |
| 20 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 21 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 22 | He felt a second shot hit him in the back and knock him off his feet . |
| 23 | If Flavia 's passion and occasional petulance in the second book diminish her from the dedicated Elphberg to a woman of lesser breed , she becomes more individual , a more positive key to the course of a story which , as compelling as The Prisoner of Zenda in its chases and escapes , its dark streets and darker forests , and as strongly tied by the theme of honour , is subtly more human than its predecessor . |
| 24 | His second son succeeded him as a clothier , his eldest son , Sir James , having already moved into the ranks of the landed gentry . |
| 25 | Then his second epistle informed us of his leaving the home of the Goldbergs , and finding a really good job with General Motors of Detroit . |
| 26 | — The scarlet coat started as a uniform for the hunt staff ( paid professionals ) in the eighteenth century to distinguish them from the gentlemen riders who wore coats of all colours then . |
| 27 | Um Khalid , a 48 year old agricultural cooperative worker from a village near the city of Ramallah , summed up the feeling in an interview with the Arab weekly Al-Fajr : ’ The 8th March means something to me now . |
| 28 | If Pindar in the Thirteenth Olympian meant anything at all by saying that the Muses breathed sweetly over Corinth , he was not referring to his own day but perhaps to that of the Corinthian Arion who invented the dithyramb . |
| 29 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 30 | Begin again , distant and spare , a clinical account of how a man — an economist — encountered a beautiful brown woman , the one hundred and fifty-sixth prostitute to spread herself with simulated murmurs and greedy eyes beneath his unslaked loins . |