Example sentences of "opening [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife dies in the opening few minutes of the movie and he spends the rest of his life mourning her . |
| 2 | A packed hall had responded attentively to his intense , vocally elegant , performances of arias by Scarlatti , Stradella , Meyerbeer , Donizetti , Cilea and the Spanish composer Pablo Sorozabal , but with the opening instrumental strains of Catari in his first encore the vast audience suddenly burst into the kind of wildly enthusiastic applause that one had waited for all evening . |
| 3 | They 'll look back on that opening forty minutes as a period of massively missed opportunity . |
| 4 | Dave Wensley 's hat-trick in the opening 10 minutes of the final period gave Tigers a 6-5 lead and with 28 seconds left , Alan Gould 's goal made it a 7-5 win for Telford . |
| 5 | It was an object lesson in finishing that would have preyed on the minds of the Belgian team at half time as they reflected on an opening 45 minutes during which it seemed only a matter of time before they took the lead . |
| 6 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
| 7 | But his selection problems are nothing compared to the turmoil at Lyngby , following the sale of five of their players , the shock resignation of coach Kent Karlsson and just one win from their opening six games of the season . |
| 8 | Celtic made the breakthrough in the 11th minute when the recalled Charlie Nicholas was first presented with an opening six yards from goal but hesitated , leaving the chance to his striking partner , Frank McAvennie , who appeared at the far post to squeeze the ball in . |
| 9 | Certainly there are some odd discrepancies between the opening sixty-five clauses of the Pactus Legis Salicae and the legislation of Childebert and Chlothar , which should give cause for thought . |
| 10 | Ball missed the opening three matches of the season because of a suspension carried over from last season , and then served a two match ban last month for reaching 21 points . |
| 11 | He took the opening three frames in 52 minutes , including a 131 break in the second frame . |
| 12 | He could well land the opening three races with Royal Wonder , Pertemps Network and Huntworth , while Star 's Delight can make it two wins in as many days by taking the Rainford Conditional Jockeys Handicap Chase . |
| 13 | Davis , after dropping three strokes on the last three holes in the third round , promptly dropped three more on the opening three holes of his final round . |
| 14 | SPAIN scored three times in the opening 18 minutes on their way to a 5-0 rout of Lithuania . |
| 15 | The opening fourteen chapters of Scale 1 provide a context of definitions for Hilton 's particular address to a recluse asking advice on the contemplative life which , in the first chapter , he acknowledges to be a demanding process : Although in defining active and contemplative life Hilton makes it clear that contemplative life belongs especially he , characteristically , makes it clear that it is not ruled out for actives . |
| 16 | After an opening 25 minutes of tedious football , Wright got to work with a magnificent solo display . |
| 17 | Underdogs Cambridge survived a desperate opening 13 minutes during which they never set foot in Oxford 's half . |
| 18 | Rovers were 2-0 in the opening 15 minutes through Morrissey and John Aldridge and perhaps made a rod for their own backs by scoring so early and then failing to add to that lead until the 77th minute through Neil McNab . |
| 19 | Goals in the opening 15 minutes from John Morrissey and John Aldridge and a late counter from Neil McNab earned Rovers three first division points . |
| 20 | A third Scot , John Higgins , 17 , of Wishaw , captured three of the opening four frames against Nick Terry , of England , in a fourth-round contest . |
| 21 | The Football Association warned last night they were keeping a close eye on the sinning Saints after collecting five bookings and one dismissal in the opening two games of the season . |
| 22 | Faldo , who dramatically captured the British Open title at Muirfield last July , will have the company of US Open champion Kite and American amateur winner Justin Leonard for the opening two rounds at Baltusrol , New Jersey . |
| 23 | Faldo , who won at Muirfield last July , will join Kite and American amateur winner Justin Leonard for the opening two rounds at Baltusrol , New Jersey . |
| 24 | Still with Renault in 1982 he won the opening two rounds in Argentina and Brazil , after the disqualification of Piquet and Rosberg , but , sadly , they turned out to be his only successes . |
| 25 | In the opening two chapters of Mark 's Gospel , Jesus calls five men to be his disciples . |
| 26 | WITTON-LE-WEAR trainer Harry Williams ' two remaining £40,000 Daily Mirror/Sporting Life Greyhound Derby hopes , New Level and Pond Pavarotti , have been drawn in the opening two heats of round one at Wimbledon on Friday night . |
| 27 | Fig 2 shows the opening two bars of the solo from Love Struck Baby . |
| 28 | Anyone possessing the gall to launch three blows into orbit and over the fence in the opening 20 minutes of the day , as Hooper did at The Oval last August when West Indies were following on , is no mere mortal . |
| 29 | ‘ Every team wants to beat Celtic , so the opening 20 minutes of any game is frantic . ’ |
| 30 | Hendry , a winner of nine titles last season , has yet to break his duck in the opening seven tournaments of the 1992-93 campaign and is clearly struggling for confidence . |