Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [noun] [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oil slicks in Alaska and elsewhere helped Vikoma , the group 's environmental cleaning equipment manufacturer , which specialises in separating oil from water , and although Salvesen brick , is suffering in the second half from a 30 to 40 per cent cut in demand as housebuilding nosedives , the first half was prosperous and full year trading profit should be on a level with 1988 , says finance director Brian Fidler . |
| 2 | Cricket … on the second day of a three day match at the Parks , Oxford University have begun their reply to Middlesex 's huge first innings total . |
| 3 | PRESTWICK 's David Gourlay , jun , the first Scot in action in yesterday 's opening day of the £140,000 Midland Bank World Indoor Championship , survived an off-green setback before moving through to the second round with a three sets to one win over past UK champion Stephen Rees . |
| 4 | After harvesting six strokes in the second round with a 66 to be nine under for the tournament , Faldo digressed on US Tour players coming over to find pickings in European Tour events — particularly pertinent as his nearest challenger is the American , Payne Stewart . |
| 5 | Crosby-born Shirli-Ann Siddall put up a courageous fight against third seed Mary Joe Fernandez , but the French Open finalist edged through to the second round with a 6–4 7–5 victory . |
| 6 | The Allegro assai that follows this piece probably belongs with it as the second movement of a two movement sonata . |
| 7 | Beaten 6–3 , 6–3 in their previous encounter , 6ft 5ins tall Ainley , a former Hampshire County choice , avenged himself with a superb display to take the title at the fourth attempt with a 6–2 , 6–1 win . |
| 8 | He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger . |
| 9 | WHILE expensively-assembled Blackburn and Derby faltered in the Second Division promotion race , Charlton , who have no home or money to spend on players , continued their unlikely attempt to return to the First Division with a 2–1 win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland , writes Christopher Davies . |
| 10 | And Wasps remain the fourth undefeated club in the First Division after a 15-13 win at Harlequins . |
| 11 | The Western Approaches project is by Walton Commercial Group , and is the first part of a multimillion pound upgrading of Exchange Buildings of which the basement project area forms part . |
| 12 | In the patient with Hodgkin 's disease , isolated oesophageal lymphoma was the first relapse after a 13 year interval free of disease . |
| 13 | But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut . |
| 14 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 15 | Those adults in a population of 444971 who developed severe acute renal failure ( serum creatinine concentration >500µmol/l ) for the first time during a two year period , with subsequent fall of the serum creatinine concentration below the index value . |
| 16 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 17 | In just under two hours time Oxford Prison will close down , leaving the city without a gaol for the first time in a thousand years . |
| 18 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 19 | One of Oxford 's two remaining women-only colleges has tonight decided to admit men for the first time in a hundred years . |
| 20 | For the opening steps in this dialogue , interested readers are urged to obtain the official and responsible positions of the field as outlined in four documents : the official philosophy paper and practice guidelines of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine ; the official bibliography of the founder of the field , Theron G Randolph , MD ; and Chemical Sensitivity : Volume 1 , the first volume of a four volume work that is destined to become the magnum opus on the topic of chemical sensitivity , which is an important component of the larger discipline . |
| 21 | The gangling 22-year-old , a modern linguist at Queens ' College , Cambridge , is said to have a serious chance of becoming ‘ the first Kinnock in a thousand generations ’ to achieve first-class honours . |
| 22 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 23 | The Science Department situated on the 2nd Floor of a three storey block was supplemented with two additional laboratories , including project and practical areas , by undertaking alterations to the 1st floor accommodation . |
| 24 | The Australians just needed three ends to take the third set with a 7-0 whitewash and then confined the New Zealanders to just three singles , one in the fourth set and two in the last , to complete a 1-7 , 7-6 , 7-0 , 7-1 , 7-2 win . |
| 25 | LASMO , which continues as operator , and Shell each have a 47.5 per cent interest , while the Oil and Gas Development Corporation of Pakistan is the third partner with a five per cent holding . |
| 26 | However , it is still not possible to be certain about world sea levels before the last quarter of a million years . |
| 27 | He is like a runner in the 5000 metres who walks all the way to the bell and then tries to make up lost time by running the last lap like a 100 metre sprint finalist — not a good technique , as you can imagine . |
| 28 | MOSSLEY bowling club won this season 's East Antrim Indoor League championship for the tenth time with a nineteen shot victory over Ballycarry OP in their final game . |
| 29 | A pushover try by scrum-half Chris Tynan and another by Gray put the result beyond doubt with Rees kicking a conversion and a second penalty for a 22–0 lead before Gale hit back with a drop-goal and a penalty providing the USA with reward for pressure . |
| 30 | I was there forty years , right , I 've seen every accident on that bend , I 've had my house as a first aid post a dozen times , until we did something in this committee to sort that corner out |