Example sentences of "[num ord] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eintracht Frankfurt stayed second after a 2-0 victory at Dynamo Dresden . |
| 2 | Mr Sampson 's report is the second of a new style of intermediate force inspections and falls between the biennial major inspections . |
| 3 | Back came Swindon , as Oxford eased off and when Dave Mitchell scored his second with a delightful bit of acrobatics , things started to bubble . |
| 4 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 5 | On Sept. 30-Oct. 1 it had come second in a rival poll for a National Congress , behind the National Independence Party ( which also boycotted the Oct. 28 elections ) . |
| 6 | Cottee grabbed his second from a glancing header after 26 minutes . |
| 7 | The first statement refers to a particular appearance of Mars at a particular place in the sky at a specified time , the second to a particular observation of a particular stick , and so on . |
| 8 | There were perhaps two ways of overcoming this problem : first by the use of a well-produced video to publicise the facilities available ; second by a direct approach to other agencies serving the industry to establish the important role training could play . |
| 9 | His resignation , the second by a senior member of the administration within a month , followed that of Elizabeth Dole , the Secretary of Labour , and fuelled speculation of an imminent Cabinet reshuffle by President George Bush . |
| 10 | Hence Mr Smith 's promise on May 19th of a national referendum on Britain 's first-past-the-post electoral system . |
| 11 | I 'd rather run against the world champion and finish sixth in a good race in Aberdeen than win by 50 metres and not be pushed at Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 12 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 13 | It would be less wise to attribute the continuing importance of the home market in the latter part of the eighteenth century and in the early nineteenth to a general improvement in real wages . |
| 14 | The Baltic states featured in a Senate debate on May 15th on a Soviet request for $1.5 billion-worth of food credits . |
| 15 | Mr Cleaver 's victory over his fellow city-council member , Bob Lewellen , in a non-partisan run-off election , was not the first for a black politician in this predominantly white city . |
| 16 | " Assault " is used in two different senses : first as a generic term for the separate offences of assault and battery ( this usage occurs in s.47 , OAPA : see below ) ; and secondly as a term denoting the crime of assault . |
| 17 | It is the first of a promised family of RS/6000 RISC-based serial and parallel systems and part of the ‘ parallel revolution ’ that IBM believes is destined to transform both technical and commercial computing markets alike . |
| 18 | That meeting , which could occur as early as two weeks ' time , will then declare at least a three-month gap in meetings to fulfil the Unionist precondition for talks and clear the way for the first of a three-stage set of inter-party and inter-government negotiations to prepare a new British-Irish Agreement . |
| 19 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 20 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 21 | Mike Gatting , first of a long line of England captains in 1988 . |
| 22 | In vitro fertilisation is only the first of a long line of reproductive technologies which may be developed in the future . |
| 23 | Phil was the first of a long list of people to tackle this challenge — abseiling down the 170 feet of the electrical engineering tower . |
| 24 | But in 1984 , Arthur succumbed to an obscure lung complaint that almost killed him , the first of a long list of lay-offs throughout his career . |
| 25 | Palafox and Romana are thus the first of a long succession of generals who claimed that the army officers embodied the general will of the nation , perverted by a selfish clique of unpopular politicians . |
| 26 | Robinson was the first of a new generation of supporters of Paisleyism . |
| 27 | The first of a new generation of strong-motion seismic data-acquisition systems has been developed , and commissioned at Hunterston power station for Scottish Nuclear . |
| 28 | He was the first of a new generation of writers who sought to repair the post-Conquest destruction of earlier pieties and observances by steady persistence in re-creating the past . |
| 29 | ‘ The 17m prototype , FAB 3 , is undergoing the most rigorous sea trials which will continue until we can be completely satisfied that she is in every way suitable to become the first of a new generation of fast All-weather lifeboats . |
| 30 | Although it is modest compared with the major producing fields , it has great significance as one of the first of a new generation of small fields to use the processing facilities offered by another field operator . |