Example sentences of "and [adv] [art] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so the 13th of August found me waving farewell to my friends and relations at King George V Dock , London . |
| 2 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ George Foreman is the big fight for Lennox right now and the second defence could be against American Tommy Morrison — and perhaps the third against Frank Bruno in 1994 . ’ |
| 4 | By 1800 less than a third of English imports came from the continent and only a fifth of her exports went there . |
| 5 | LITERALLY BEHIND THE TIMES Books are still subject to resale price maintenance , sale or return is the norm , and only a third of all retailers have embraced electronic point of sale techniques . |
| 6 | Yet this modest advance in steam conditions was approached late and with circumspection : the sets on order for the whole of the 1950s commissioning programmes remained mainly the 30MW and 60MW sizes , and only a third of the sets adopted the more advanced steam conditions . |
| 7 | This involved repeating various commands given by Sergeant Moustaine , which was difficult as he spoke fast and only a third of our Section spoke French . |
| 8 | We found that only about one in five of all establishments used either form of temporary worker and only a third of those used them in numbers equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour forces . |
| 9 | At York , admissions to the freedom of the city show that in the period 1301–1550 less than one-seventh of those admitted were drawn from citizen stock , while at Romney in Kent between 1433 and 1523 , a quarter of the freemen came from outside the county , and only a third from within a 5-mile radius of the town ( 70 ) . |
| 10 | This was the 10th occasion on which Congress had requested the appointment of a special prosecutor , and only the first on which it had been denied by an Attorney General . |
| 11 | If it is partitioned in the form unc where Y is of order ( n × p ) and unc square , of order p , ( 2 ) gives unc and only the first of these equations concerns us . |
| 12 | Then Furlong was just wide with a shot-on-the-turn from 12 yards and Coventry 's supporters were justified in expecting their first win in five games — and only the third of Don Howe 's reign . |
| 13 | Beck 's first tournament win since 1990 — and only the fourth of his career — was achieved in the hardest of circumstances . |
| 14 | It was a disgraceful decision and not the first of the night . |
| 15 | Even so early as the late ninth century it was recognized that in practice a man might be a vassal of more than one lord , and thus the second of our presumptions was breached . |
| 16 | Only two in five Scots electronics jobs are with UK-owned firms , and just an eighth of input — components , materials , utilities — is Scottish . |
| 17 | She left every day at two o'clock , after the morning rush was over and once the last of the hot midday meals had been served . |
| 18 | By the age of seven , more than half the boys and nearly a third of the girls were being hit at least once a week . |
| 19 | And nearly a third of 2,000 women questioned for the Me magazine survey admitted having unprotected sex . |
| 20 | It is the most beautiful covered walkway in Italy and also the first in which metal and glass were used as structural elements rather than purely , for adornment . |
| 21 | His two-day visit was the first by a French Prime Minister and also the first by any European Prime Minister since Harold Macmillan in January 1957 [ see p. 16042 ] . |
| 22 | They were particularly vulnerable during their first 12 months and about a third of them did not live to reach the age of 10 . |
| 23 | And now the first of the small crowd had reached the car . |
| 24 | To be sure , many core groups from the old Democratic coalition voted in large numbers for Reagan , including Catholics , Jews , southerners , blue-collar workers , union members , the poor and even a third of the unemployed . |
| 25 | In 1981 , for example , just under half of the male labour force and around a third of the female labour force in service industries were in manual , ‘ blue-collar ’ occupations . |
| 26 | In no time , he 'd bought a second one for Liam in Milltown , and then a third in Warrenpoint and now Liam was just about to clinch a site in Newry . |
| 27 | It would probably carry on like this for at least another hour , and then the first of the departures would begin ; the ones with an early start in the morning , the ones with teenaged babysitters , the ones who rarely went out anyway … an hour after that they 'd be down to the hard core , and an hour after that it would just be a case of guiding out those last drunks who were too far-gone to find the door . |
| 28 | A man 's outline appeared hesitantly out of the mist , and then the first of their pursuers turned and whistled softly . |
| 29 | I find it quite hard going being the first up every morning and then the last to bed after walk and doing the washing up machine and so on . |
| 30 | We have been paying them in England since 21 February and virtually a third of claims have been met . |