Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The second related to the difficulties experienced by deaf and dumb school-leavers in finding suitable employment and particularly in entering skilled trades . |
2 | the second swelled over the beach mats , |
3 | Consider , for example , the case of two owners of agricultural land on the periphery of a town , both of whom applied for planning permission to develop for housing purposes — the first being given permission and the second refused on the ground that the site in question was to form part of a green belt . |
4 | The model is attached to a node at the origins of the reference space , with the second attached to a point set on the first . |
5 | The serial number of this bass , 72997058 , tells us that it was made in Kalamazoo ( that 's the 0 ; guitars made in Nashville at this time carried a 5 ) and that it was the 58th made in the batch that was stamped the 299th day of the year . |
6 | Taking in both Madrid and Barcelona , the four-day Spanish mission , supported by the Clydesdale Bank , will be the fourth undertaken by the SCDI . |
7 | The Fitzallan 's played leading parts in Scottish life over several generations : the third Steward , Alan 's son , was appointed Justiciary for Scotland by King Alexander II ; the fourth fought at the Battle of Largs and was a Crusader ; and the fifth was appointed a Guardian of Scotland during the troubled times before the rise of William Wallace . |
8 | Many trade marks first registered under the Trade Marks Act 1875 are still in use , testifying to the importance of trade marks , including Britain 's No.1 trade mark , the BASS red triangle mark . |
9 | I do not know when Elizabeth had first fallen under the spell , but I know that her friendship with Ivy did not begin until a year or two later . |
10 | Direction was first given to the work by the publication in 1978 of the Warnock Report , the results of a committee of inquiry into the education of handicapped children and young people . |
11 | This fanatical regard for esteemed works as they were first given to the public leads to intimidating variations in price . |
12 | The production was first given at the Theatre Royal in York , yet it transfers very well to the larger auditorium of the Grand . |
13 | In their libretto for Offenbach 's opéra bouffe , Gaieté Parisienne , which was first given on the Paris stage in 1867 , Halévy and Meilhac summed it up : |
14 | Eventually , the ballet was first given by the University Ballet as Suite , Opus 3 , but for a revival by the Ballet Club he settled on Suite , ‘ Aus Holbergs Zeit ’ ( ‘ from Holberg 's time ’ ) . |
15 | Patient M17 had the epidemic strain of P cepacia in his sputum when first referred to the Manchester adult CF clinic from the Liverpool CF clinic . |
16 | For this reason , he invited the previous speaker who had first referred to the lack of education of the people of the area to spend a day or two in the area sometime to experience it first hand . |
17 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
18 | The cycle track was first formed with a 100mm thick compacted layer of old railway ballast , surfaced with a 25mm thick layer of fine crushed whin stone . |
19 | The cycle track was first formed with a 100mm thick compacted layer of old railway ballast , surfaced with a 25mm thick layer of fine crushed whin stone . |
20 | The solid foamed skin first formed on the top would then be steadily lifted by the foaming of the combustion-zone beneath and a vertical foamed ‘ pillar ’ rise from the block . |
21 | The original village , first made an appearance in the public records in 1056 when it donated land for a monastery , but it was actually first formed in the foot hills in 641 by mountain folk escaping an invasion by the Rotaris . |
22 | Its functions were not at first regarded by the courts with much enthusiasm . |
23 | This was first formulated by the philosopher John Austin in a series of lectures which are now collected into a short book with the deceptively simple title of How to do Things with Words ( Austin 1962 ) . |
24 | The message , which apparently tempered earlier calls for a more radical approach to the Baltic republics was , however , received differently by Ukrainian leaders who highlighted the significance of Bush 's visit , the first undertaken by a US leader on a state visit . |
25 | High factor sunscreens are essential to prevent a typical British skin burning when first exposed to the sun . |
26 | High factor sunscreens wo n't stop you turning brown , but will prevent your skin from burning when first exposed to the sun , allowing it slowly to acclimatise and produce its own natural protection and colour . |
27 | This story was first exposed in the August 1973 issue of the New Internationalist . |
28 | To help achieve this , the proposed Trust would aim to give all patients a date for admission to hospital when first placed on the waiting list . ’ |
29 | The octamer sequence was first recognized in the histone H2B gene and in the heavy and kappa light chain immunoglobulin genes and later identified as a regulatory sequence motif for many other cellular and viral genes ( reviewed in [ 1 ] ) . |
30 | He had first checked from the window that the taxi he had telephoned was waiting . |