Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stone Brig o'Balgownie crossing the River Don north of the town was built with its graceful Gothic arch in the fourteenth century by Robert the Bruce . |
| 2 | In fact , presumably one also needs to do the transposition of first oboe and second oboe in case the the oboe is n't there ? |
| 3 | Anti-suburbanism continues to be a strand in American feminist thinking ; in Women and the American City , Susan Saegert suggests that suburbs are bad for women and good for men ( Saegert , 1981 ) while Betty Friedan 's classic of the second wave of feminism The Feminine Mystique ( Friedan , 1963 ) and its fictionalised version in Marilyn French 's The Women 's Room ( French , 1978 ) have popularised the American feminist revolt against suburban life . |
| 4 | A joint enterprise with the Co-operative Wholesale Society , such was the prestige of the WTA 's reputation and the skill of the promotional machine that 5,000 bookings were taken in the first year , at prices two-thirds those of Billy Butlin , who had opened his second camp at Clacton the previous year . |
| 5 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 6 | Then according to Newton 's second law of motion the acceleration a of this mass is given by . |
| 7 | For over a week government forces were unable to crush guerrilla-style resistance , but the army remained loyal and by the second half of December the workers , movement was clearly on the retreat . |
| 8 | Each party to the conference , including the Palestinian representation , was understood to have received during the second half of October a separate " letter of assurances ' from the US government . |
| 9 | By the second half of February the Germans were beginning to be really worried by the advance — although slow — of the Allies and by the strong resistance of the partisans , so they decided to make a deal with the partisan leaders to save their own lives . |
| 10 | In the second half of September the Bavarian Cultural Ministry was still in discussion with the Fürstin over what should be included in the sale , with particular efforts being made to acquire , or cause to be withdrawn , items with strong Bavarian or Regensburg connections . |
| 11 | If England decide on changes for the second Test at Lords the bowling department is the one most likely to suffer , with DeFreitas ' name top of the list unless he produces something special in front of Gooch . |
| 12 | For readers still able to afford a second home in Europe the most sensible advice is : do n't rush ; carefully study the conditions in the area chosen ; and obtain proper advice . |
| 13 | On our second day at Aviemore a curious thing happened . |
| 14 | The miniatures which decorate a volume of French poems and lais by Adenet le Roi , Marie de France and others , made in Paris for Marie de Brabant ( 1260–1321 ) , second wife of Philip the Fair , in about 1300 , appear to have furnished models copied by the English illuminator of the Arundel Psalter , which date from before 1339 . |
| 15 | We were probably the better side for long spells whereas we played second fiddle to Portadown the entire match . |
| 16 | During the second month of pregnancy the embryo increases from about 5 to around 30 millimetres in length . |
| 17 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 18 | On the same day the first congress of the Entrepreneurs Party elected Tibor Szabo as its chairman , but at its second congress in June the leadership resigned because of poor results in the national elections and Jozsef Rigo took over as party leader . |
| 19 | Marilyn Brown says she accepts her son now wo n't be home for Christmas and his 29th birthday on January the 2nd . |
| 20 | By the second year of life the child is capable of physical independence to a marked degree . |
| 21 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 22 | For the second year in succession a regional survey for the Grampian area was undertaken . |
| 23 | For the second year in succession the largest contribution to economic growth came from the financial and business services sector , which grew by 15 per cent , compared with 10.1 per cent in 1989 . |
| 24 | Such was the fate of Charles of Aquitaine , second son of Charles the Bald : horribly wounded , he lingered on , to die two years later . |
| 25 | In one set of trials the type of match required was varied from trial to trial while in a second set of trials the same match was required for a fixed number of stimulus presentations . |
| 26 | They 'd set his hand and cast it , and then after a second set of plates a week later they 'd broken off the cast and operated . |
| 27 | John , who is a full time shift worker , has been polishing off most the Peak 's F8a+ in good time , having also recently red-pointed Boat Boys , Chimes of Freedom as well as making the 6th ascent of Zeke the Freak ( F8b ) . |
| 28 | Of particular interest in the mouse is the observation that up to the 8th day of gestation the isolated embryonic region will give rise to transplantable tumours when placed beneath the testis or kidney capsule ( 16,17 ) . |
| 29 | At around the 18th and 19th day of pregnancy the individual conceptuses can be felt as small spheres . |
| 30 | Now in its 4th year of production the BFI New Directors scheme is firmly established as an important way of locating new film and television makers . |