Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central Districts were top of the Shell Trophy at last report , and are there again at time of writing . |
| 2 | Leafing through the pages of Wisden , one can discover that even on the so-called fast bowlers ' pitch at Lord 's , spinners were regularly brought to the bowling crease as first change : slow bowlers such as Titmus of Middlesex , Dooland of Notts , Tribe of Northants , Wardle of Yorkshire , Walsh of Leicestershire , Hollies of Warwickshire , Mortimore of Gloucestershire and Marlar of Sussex . |
| 3 | Martindale charts the intellectual history of American sociology from the interwar period to post-Second World War as a movement from the dominance of social behaviourism as a perspective to that of functionalism . |
| 4 | The drama blew up , so to speak , when top reinsurance companies refused to offer cover for next year against terrorist attack after counting the £800m cost of last April 's expensive election night bomb in the City . |
| 5 | Why not report the facts and realism of the £3m loss of last season , which only John Hall seems capable of tackling ? |
| 6 | Time will tell whether Swansea 's grim win at an echoing Twickenham was an omen that the international in February will be fought out in the Cardiff fashion of last year or whether it was just these 80 minutes which had the mark of the beast upon them . |
| 7 | What Teldec has given us here is his inaugural concert as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , recorded ‘ live ’ at the Lincoln Center on 13th September 1991 , in front of a commendably quiet audience . |
| 8 | Christine produced a new order form for the Lent Studies booklet and fliers for the Preparation Day on 30th January to be held in Dunblane Cathedral Hall , for which she would arrange tea , coffee , and a bookstall where it was hoped to have copies of the books mentioned as background reading for the Lent study . |
| 9 | Have the drug companies at last come up with something approaching a m little miracle ? |
| 10 | As swell waves or wind-driven waves run into shallow water the velocity and wave length both decrease , as also does the wave height at first , but when the ratio of depth to wave length falls below 0.06 the waves increase in height immediately prior to breaking ( Bird , 1968 ) . |
| 11 | In short , during the past four hundred years the lemon has become , in cooking , the condiment which has largely replaced the vinegar , the verjuice ( preserved juice of green grapes ) , the pomegranate juice , the bitter orange juice , the mustard and wine compounds which were the acidifiers poured so freely into the cooking pots of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe . |
| 12 | John Young 's was illustrated in The Building News on 4th September , 1857 , and Robert Kerr 's ‘ picturesque Renaissance ’ scheme , as he called it , which united the two offices in a magnificent north-facing block , was reviewed and illustrated in The Builder on 26th September . |
| 13 | Former French Open champion Walton goes into the third round of the £618,000 championship in second place , two strokes behind Swede Mats Lanner , and 36 good holes away from saving himself from the trip that no player wants to make . |
| 14 | Sales of general building materials by the builders merchant to third parties amounted to £26,000 of which £24,000 had been received in cash by 31 December 1990 and the remainder was received in January 1991 . |
| 15 | The Bosworth Tunnel was completed in April 1813 and the canal was opened as far as Stanford on the main line and Welford at the end of the branch line on 25th May 1813 . |
| 16 | Lymphocytes , however , show quite specific recirculation patterns in which particular subsets leave the blood circulation by first adhering to high endothelial venule cells at specific sites — for example , peripheral lymph nodes or mucosal associated lymphoid tissue . |
| 17 | Sally , forced to settle for the silver medal in last year 's world championships , revealed : ‘ I was determined to prove after Tokyo that I could be the best . |
| 18 | North-East 100 metres hurdles champion Jocelyn Kirby , who won the silver medal in last week 's Northern Championships , ran a superbly controlled race to set a Division Five record of 14.2 . |
| 19 | I think I been here before , cos there 's the telly shop from last night . |
| 20 | Hence the world-wide distribution through quite unrelated languages and cultures of the T/V distinction in second person singular pronouns ( Head , 1978 ; Levinson , 1978 ; for the sociolinguistics , see Brown & Gilman , 1960 and Lambert & Tucker , 1976 ) . |
| 21 | The Saturday Review on 16th May , 1857 , the day after the Lords debate , launched a characteristically scathing attack on the Duke of Buccleuch 's appointment as judge . |
| 22 | The Bristol University graduate , the third-choice keeper until last night , did not put a hand , or foot , wrong and he could do nothing about the Spartak goals . |
| 23 | The entry list for next Saturday 's Bangor classic 10k is really starting to sparkle with three of the Liverpool-based Kenyan international stars coming to the Co Down event . |
| 24 | On Saturday , Waverley 's promising minor girl , Rachel Hall , qualified for the Surrey team with 11th place in the County Middle Schools ' cross-country at Reigate Priory . |
| 25 | Gingerly she backed the old Mini away from the Bentley , then pushed the gear lever into first and began to drive forward a couple of feet . |
| 26 | Vitor rammed the gear stick into third . |
| 27 | From that we have six hundred and fifty allowed for the car park from last year for paper bank money , four hundred and five recycle money just come in , |
| 28 | The Builder commented that the submission date of 1st February , 1857 gave too short a time and that it was a mistake to divide the competition into three parts . |
| 29 | A number of ships were leaving at the same time — presumably with what they 'd come for , after Recovery — but we were slotted into the readiness pattern at fourth place . |
| 30 | The Anniversary was marked by a luncheon given in the Hallam Hall on 18th July 1962 , presided over by the new Chairman , Lt. Col. J.A . |