Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Parents who do n't want their kids taught about homosexuality in the first grade are not bigots . |
| 2 | The Big Six are in an unassailable position and no new firm formed through mergers in the second tier will ever be able to catch up with them , according to former Arthur Andersen senior partner Ian Hay Davison . |
| 3 | Texts are sometimes altered editorially for particular purposes , and in this respect , for example , you could compare Shakespeare 's play Henry V with a version of the play revised for performance in the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months . |
| 5 | On the other hand , foreign languages were clearly expected to be taught for communication in the first place . |
| 6 | These days the Glaswegian goes for consistency in the first ten places while riding as an understudy to a leader like LeMond . |
| 7 | Looking further ahead , he added : ‘ Much of what matters for Courtaulds in the next century will be decided between now and 1995 — what kind of company we 're going to be and what the balance between the businesses will be . ’ |
| 8 | Much of what matters for Courtaulds in the next century — what kind of company we 're going to be and what the balance between the businesses should be — will be decided between now and 1995 . |
| 9 | Martyn Grimley , another Great Britain player , will be appearing for Brooklands in the Second Division . |
| 10 | Stone recurrence after extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is expected to be similar and has been reported as 9% in the first year . |
| 11 | On the contrary , we now know a great deal about Jesus 's milieu , and far more than most practising Christians realise about Palestine in the first century — its sociology , its economy , its politics , its cultural and religious character , its historical actuality . |
| 12 | If , for example , you want to know about punctuation in the seventeenth century , marriage laws in nineteenth-century Canada , the history of the Elizabethan stage , or current theories of myth or symbol , this is one place well worth looking . |
| 13 | If we go back to the education example , and suppose that the first vote is between L and M , then if the rich vote sincerely L wins , and in the second round H defeats L. On the other hand , if the rich had voted for M in the first round , then M would have gone on to win in the second round . |
| 14 | Sparta voted for war against Athens on this occasion in her own chamber , thereby getting Samos on to the Peloponnesian League agenda ; the Corinthians voted for peace in the second , decisive meeting , composed of the whole league ( Thuc. i.40 ) . |
| 15 | Only six customers had been disconnected for non-payment in the last six months . |
| 16 | Women first began to work as psychologists in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 17 | According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year . |
| 18 | The public knowledge that such discussion was taking place was damaging enough for Mrs Thatcher ; it was accentuated by signs that there was an active campaign to line up alternative candidates to stand against Heseltine in the second ballot . |
| 19 | Tommy Donnelly 's Campsie B moved into contention in the second half but their efforts were shortlived . |
| 20 | I would quibble with details in the first movement , but the savage second movement is unsurpassed in its combined ferocity and thrust , the third moves from creeping malevolence to a spinetingling summoning-up of ghosts , and the finale rushes lemming-like to its conclusion , making a nonsense of the average insert-note description . |
| 21 | How could they have come into existence in the first place without malicious midwives ? |
| 22 | Something like it is well-nigh inevitable , once the fundamental ingredients of cumulative selection — replication , error and power — have come into existence in the first place . |
| 23 | A standard vessel in the later Greek period was the peniekonier , the fifty-oar ship , thought by Bury ( 1951 ) to have come into use in the eighth century BC , and it may be that the seal showing a vessel with thirty oars was intended to represent the Minoan forerunner of this Greek type of warship . |
| 24 | This scheme was first transposed into carpets in the 16th century , and has remained the dominant feature of Persian compositions ever since . |
| 25 | Sainte En grace the saint was in fact Portuguese , and said to have been martyred in Saragossa in the fourth century . |
| 26 | The public 's political knowledge appears to have increased ; the number of respondents who were able to name their own MP correctly rose from 34% in the first survey to 43% in the last . |
| 27 | Another nightmarish error let in Swail in the ninth but his inexperience proved significant with the winning line in sight . |
| 28 | The fourth tier was originally in wood and was rebuilt in stone in the third century A.D. Between the three-quarter columns are arched openings , 80 on each of the first three storeys , and in each was placed a statue . |
| 29 | The first outbreak occurred in Essex in the second half of May , in the form of resistance to taxation , by early June Kent also was in revolt , and by the second week of that month East Anglia too was affected . |
| 30 | Traditional grammar originated in Greece in the 5th century and has always been associated closely with philosophy and literary criticism . |