Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The need for a more balanced architecture , with readings being ordered not as a result of depth-first search but according to numerical scores to which all system components can contribute , will now be argued in more detail by looking at four types of co-ordination problem occurring in anaphora resolution .
2 The game 's only try — Turnbull 's second for Scotland — was recorded in the 38th minute and emanated from Stark 's pursuit of Scott Hastings 's chip-kick which forced Rayer to concede a lineout two metres from the Welsh line .
3 Not without biblical significance , the exhibition marks the artist 's seventieth birthday and coincides with a revival of interest in his work .
4 Here , the Nicholas family held some 500–600 acres of land by the later years of the sixteenth century and ranked with the Gittinses as the largest landowners in the parish .
5 He was the son of James Six ( 1695–1743 ) and his wife Ester , daughter of Louis Ducaufour , and descended from the Huguenot refugee families who came to Britain in the sixteenth century and settled in Canterbury , where they engaged in the silk-weaving trade .
6 Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors .
7 Last year the firm with its strong Liverpool roots celebrated its 250th anniversary and advanced to full quotation on the London Stock Exchange .
8 This fashion of dimidiation was abandoned by at least the late fourteenth century and replaced by the style of compressing each set of armorial bearings onto one half of the shield — the husband 's being placed on the dexter and the wife 's on the sinister .
9 The only added cost was the need for a second driver when running in excess of 100mph , but this was subsequently rescinded to 110mph .
10 In the same year he joined the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment as a second lieutenant and served in the South African war .
11 You may be recalled for a second interview or apply to the same place some time in the future .
12 Place a sheet of paper across the page under row A and post the transaction in the second column as described in Chapter 3 .
13 Wales actually led 6–3 into the second half but tries to Damien Smith and Garrick Morgan and a conversion and three penalties by full-back Marty Roebuck put the Aussies 24–6 ahead .
14 Redcar 's forwards turned the screw in the second half and tries from hooker Phil Mohan and prop Phil Beal sealed the win .
15 Lying in second place and sitting on a possible £3,000 I decided that two practice sessions were needed and on the Tuesday , a week before the match , I had a day off work ( I left Dek in charge of the shop — yet again ) and headed 70 miles down the M.1. to the canal to try to sort it out .
16 This points to the second record that randomized to the home address .
17 However , it is important to remember that after 1935 the traditional industries recovered in the run up to a second war and continued to be prosperous until the early 1960s .
18 Indeed , it must have occurred on just one of those summer evenings she mentions , for I can recall distinctly climbing to the second landing and seeing before me a series of orange shafts from the sunset breaking the gloom of the corridor where each bedroom door stood ajar .
19 If you instruction is found , simply make your second move as shown by the number on your personal game card .
20 Here they were to turn left , then take the second right and go about a kilometre to a building site where Ruggiero Miletti was waiting , unable to move because of his bad leg .
21 The visiting party , including an HMI in attendance , was horrified , dropped their agenda for the second day and went through the problems as they had perceived them with the management group and the Academic Board :
22 Adverse currency movements in Brazil and a worse result in Puerto Rico also contributed to the increased deficit , although the latter showed some improvement in the second quarter when compared to the first three months of the year .
23 The second factor that argues against the theory that only a low increase in inflation will result from devaluation is the attitude of the workforce , where wages account for 60% of unit costs .
24 However , the difficulty in deciding cause and effect is illustrated by the fact that the angiosperms appeared after the extinction of the Second Age and coincided with the Age of Low Feeders .
25 The vector product a ∘ b is also a tensor of second rank but behaves like a vector ( sometimes called a pseudo-vector ) because it has only three non-vanishing components .
26 This is most important with approach putts where the intention is to leave yourself an easy second putt as opposed to going boldly at the hole .
27 They were in the big room on the second floor that served as Frick 's office .
28 We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat .
29 There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid .
30 At this point it is likely that we may make a second mistake and go for a purely positivist view of law , the view that the nature of law can be appreciated purely by reciting the elements of positing and applying law without reference to its objectives or functions , so that we have a legal system as long as there are institutionalised ways of selecting mandatory rules and some arrangement for an authoritative application of those rules to particular situations .
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