Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The lay subsidy rolls of the fourteenth century yield much information on the subject of bynames and surnames for all categories of persons , and in many cases it seems true to say that such names were not necessarily applied to whole families nor ( given that they appear in different forms in successive rolls ) can they be judged to have stabilized .
2 The Wars of Independence which began in the 1290s and lasted into the late fourteenth century changed that situation radically .
3 Later , a second change permitted these tax benefits to be offset against income that would otherwise have attracted higher rates of tax .
4 The shoulder straps were still the transverse type worn since 1861 ; they were of branch facing colour bordered with gold braid , and for ranks above second lieutenant bore applied metal insignia of rank as illustrated in the accompanying pattern drawing .
5 The Government has gone back to the Appeal COurt tonight in a second attempt to stop Central Television screening the first filmed interview with mass murderer Dennis Nilsen .
6 The second Alternative offering this month is just super .
7 His second disappointment came last year when the Bath hooker returned for the deciding group game against Berkshire .
8 Thus we have a contribution depending on the total charge , and a second term bearing strong resemblance to our dipole formulae .
9 The ‘ Haryana Hurricane ’ is the second bowler to reach this landmark , after Sir Richard Hadlee
10 Kapil Dev became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he dismissed Mark Taylor at Perth
11 KAPIL DEV , India 's Pride , became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he trapped Australian opener Mark Taylor lbw in the first over after tea at 4.05 on the third day in the final Test of the recent series .
12 The second influence represents relative demand shifts between markets .
13 The second half produced any amount of action , including five goals , three of them to Chorley , before their striker Bernie Taylor had to be stretchered off following a tackle from Kath Townley , who became the second United player to be dismissed .
14 Atkinson the manager spent most of the second half demanding more effort from Atkinson the striker .
15 The second half brought more misery .
16 The second group has shorter seed longevity and rarer seeding , germination in the open in some or in the shade in others , trees living for 100–300 years and producing light to dark woods of medium weight .
17 Those contents were then tipped into a second vessel containing cold water , which both stopped and cooled the reaction .
18 Dermot Reeve clipped Waqar 's first delivery for a single but his second ball uprooted last man Richard Illingworth 's leg stump .
19 A second head placed equal stress on the importance of trust in the promotion of good morale .
20 FOR the second week running high quality furniture topped the price lists and at Andersons a mahogany D-end economy table was sold at £2,250 ; another economy table from the Georgian era for £1,700 and a pair of shaped top , cabriole leg specimen cabinets at £1,250 .
21 The d between service and working class would be much smaller , +0.09 , but we might not want to conclude that the second society displayed smaller class differentials ; after all , ten times as many service as working class children attend selective schools in the latter case , while only three times as many do in the former .
22 The second approach allows medium-term planning exercises by maximising a general welfare criterion subject to inequality constraints on key target variables and excessive policy manipulations .
23 A charitable organisation called Second Harvest receives unused food which would otherwise become solid waste , and other charities take soaps from the hotels .
24 The second correlation requires deeper consideration .
25 The completion of a second Soviet designed nuclear plant , under construction on the Danube , is now in question as it is being built in an area prone to earthquakes .
26 He also visited Lord Gowrie , head of Sotheby 's , which has announced the auction on 17 November in Geneva of goldsmiths ' work and jewellery valued at SFr20 million ( £8 million ) , with a second sale to come next year , from the collections of the Fürst Thurn und Taxis of Regensburg .
27 The second phase involves in-depth study of business topics and the preparation of working papers .
28 The larger lexicon supplied with the second version remedies this problem but is too large to load into the KCL LISP environment .
29 The second version has continuous concrete bearing pads on either side to carry the floor .
30 By the 1870s sufficient of world agriculture was in the second position to make agrarian depression both world-wide and politically explosive .
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