Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day use two pieces of dry food as a first course , the next day use four and so on , gradually increasing the size of the first course until the dog 's meal comprises a huge first course of dry food followed by a minuscule second course of only a single nugget of dry food garnished with some juicy brown food as a reward for cleaning its bowl . |
| 2 | If our account of innovative accretion is reasonable , we have a basic model within the second scenario of how the earliest linguistic structures were born . |
| 3 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
| 4 | The second example of how the historical transformations underpinning modern society may be examined from unconventional perspectives which emphasize consumption as well as production comes from a series of studies in American historical archaeology . |
| 5 | Faced with his second mutiny in barely a day Jones agreed , though insisting his men must not search or damage the house but merely demand the family silver . |
| 6 | Place a set of wickets about ten feet from a second position from where a person is going to bowl a ball . |
| 7 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 8 | He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment . |
| 9 | Gispy Fiddler put Jonjo on cloud nine with a Royal Ascot win two years ago and was having his first run for almost a year when shaping well behind Bit Of A Lark at Haydock . |
| 10 | Watched by a demonstration of 5000 jeering westerners at the Brandenburg Gate , and by Mr Willi Brandt , the then Mayor of West Berlin who referred to ‘ the vacant eyes of uniformed compatriots doing their duty on the other side ’ , the soldiers completed the first barrier in only a few hours . |
| 11 | DEACON Blue will begin their first tour for over a year at the newly revamped Ingliston auditorium on the outskirts of Edinburgh . |
| 12 | Bernhard Langer got the first blow in by hitting a great second shot over the Swilcan Burn at the first hole to only a few inches , about a foot I guess , and birdied to go one nearer the lead . |
| 13 | The only way up to the first floor from inside the works was via a ladder , which had started life as one of The Salisbury Volunteer Fire Brigade escapes , probably acquired by Mr. Farr during his service as a fireman in the early years of the century . |
| 14 | If you can keep your ‘ surplus ’ projects simple and labour-saving — grass-letting or flying flocks of grazing animals for example — you May still find time to concentrate on feeding your family as your first objective on quite a large holding . |
| 15 | This was her very first taste of only the best being good enough — and she liked it ! |
| 16 | Its technology is the first integration of both the Unix and Windows operating systems on a single machine . |
| 17 | Its technology is the first integration of both the Unix and Windows operating systems on a single machine . |
| 18 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 19 | If you can satisfy these three requirements the reader should gain a good first impression of both the essay and the writer . |
| 20 | JOHN CALE , avant-garde elder statesman and Velvet Underground founder member , whose live panto , guitar and vocals album ‘ Fragments Of A Rain Season ’ is out now on Hannibal Records , plays in his native Wales for the first time in almost a decade as part of his autumn tour , visiting . |
| 21 | The Economist 's assessment of the mood six weeks later was that ‘ the first whiff of even a false rumour is liable to cause a run ’ ( 3 August 1974 ) . |
| 22 | I doubt that an historian of welfare policy in the 1970s could access data and run it ( i.e. view it ) just as was done by the policy makers of the 1970s and their advisers , yet we can read the parliamentary reports of the nineteenth century at exactly the same speed and in exactly the same form as the policy makers who used and created them . |
| 23 | The struggle between the Greek and the native Slav influences within the Byzantine Church goes back to the time of Cyril and Methodius , and it continued into the nineteenth century in both the Serbian and Bulgarian churches . |
| 24 | The 13th edition of Just a Bite guide lists 900 of the best places in which to eat without breaking the bank . |
| 25 | Mr Harwood constructs a neat cat 's cradle of ironies and he keeps you guessing until almost the last minute about how the fraternal conflict is going to resolve itself . |
| 26 | We were talking just last night about how the people here seem to love us , and I said , ‘ Well , I do n't really take that personally — more that we were connected with a happening . ’ |
| 27 | JOHN McENROE bade farewell to top-level tennis last night in much the same fashion as has marked his 15 stormy years on the circuit . |
| 28 | The government has paid for the restructuring of the Villahermosa Palace to house the collection ; it is guaranteeing any short-fall in the running costs after entrance fees are collected ; it is paying $6 million rent a year , index-linked , for the collection ; it has introduced an indemnity scheme to cover the works of art , and has given the Baron and Baroness the last word on how the collection is to be administered during the ten years of the loan , at the end of which the collection is handed back , with exemption from Spain 's otherwise very restrictive art export laws . |
| 29 | This is going to be the last party for quite a bit . ’ |
| 30 | You might think there was something wrong with you if you did not enjoy this form of dedicated slavery but at least a woman had someone to share it with : her husband — and that third party in almost every educated parental home , Dr Benjamin Spock . |