Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They divided between them about one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ( if we exclude Asiatic Russia ) . |
| 2 | It 's not to late to book I think it says something about surcharge after sixth of March or something on the form does n't it ? |
| 3 | After first of all declining to write for the series , Nation eventually agreed after a row with his former employer , comedian Tony Hancock , left him with no income to pay for a central heating system he was having installed at home . |
| 4 | John McIlwraith , Balig , Ayr , chairman of the BSS UK , says the Beltex is the terminal sire that can deliver the right type of lamb at the right weight and with a conformation that is accepted in Europe as second to none . |
| 5 | Substantial Eukanuba prizes , quality rosettes and prize cards for 1st to 5th in the Eukanuba Dogs Today Rescue Dog of the Year Class |
| 6 | And last night , with his big service really back in the groove , looked well capable of moving back from his present lowly ranking of 15th to the top ten next year . |
| 7 | The Iraquis did that as of second of August . |
| 8 | Ian Woosnam , whose share of 57th on Sunday was 51 places behind Faldo , moves up to third . |
| 9 | The dial is marked for A-440 , A-442 and A-435 standard pitches , as well as by degrees of 100th of a semitone , or ‘ cents ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Corner of Seventh on Lincoln . ’ |
| 11 | Let's see what you can make of first of all that one . |
| 12 | It is a terrible warning to us about what could happen if we threw away our system of first past the post elections . |
| 13 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 14 | This will be his 10th attempt and , with a highest place finish of 16th in 1991 , the former Open and US Masters champion confessed he does not know what lies ahead . |
| 15 | Instead , he ended up in the unfamiliar position of ninth with only 2.05 metres to his name after failing to get his five-stride training run-up in the groove . |
| 16 | In the application of next to calendrical names of days , an ambiguity arises : next Thursday can refer either to the Thursday of the week that succeeds the week that includes CT , or that Thursday that first follows CT . |
| 17 | The study will also collect data from a small sample of next of kin of those who have died or entered residential care to try to understand how these events affected the network and how family and friends cope with crises . |
| 18 | FRENCH actress Isabelle Adjani , 36 , above , has moved back to Paris following the ending of her relationship with actor Daniel Day-Lewis , 34 , star of Last of the Mohicans . |
| 19 | ‘ But even if Eldorado becomes a hit like Last Of The Summer Wine , I certainly WO N'T be opening a Spanish tea-room . ’ |
| 20 | and then he 's got a big packing , he ca n't have that out like tenth of February er so |
| 21 | The other thing 's behind next to the erm scales . |
| 22 | Ray Floyd failed to join them recently when he finished tied for 8th in the Bank One Classic . |
| 23 | On receipt by congress , the budget is dealt with first by a variety of committees . |
| 24 | Who did I bump into first except John ! |
| 25 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | PAIN IN SPAIN : The anguish of Liz McColgan , beaten into fifth in the Olympic10,000m last night |
| 27 | Though no match for Gaelstrom and Now Your Talkin , he was running on well into third at the end , and in receipt of 20lbs from Highland Spirit should go well at a big price . |
| 28 | Royal Athlete later went on to run a cracking race into third in the Cheltenham Gold Cup and must have a marvellous chance at the weights . |
| 29 | Scott was awarded the highest prize , with third on the Foreign Office list , Deane and Woodward were fourth , and Street was awarded one of the fifth prizes on the same list . |
| 30 | It 's been working with NeXT since January , tuning the software and getting the right hardware configuration — stuff like modifying its QVision board . |