Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was never any mention of further plans for parachuting after the first operational disaster , and the correspondents agree that he was away in the desert . |
| 2 | Blackwell Retail , which used to produce its own catalogue , broke with tradition this year and took Books for Giving for the first time . |
| 3 | In marked distinction to the solicitors ' branch of the profession , the pupil barrister may not earn any money during the first six months of pupillage and there are only limited opportunities for earning in the second six months of pupillage . |
| 4 | From the liberal wing of the Ukrainian Communist Party , Fokin was regarded as a compromise candidate and was elected unopposed in the third ballot ( he had re-entered the contest after withdrawing from the second ballot ) , after the communist hardliners ' candidate , Aleksandr Bulyanda , had been persuaded to stand down . |
| 5 | In a statement on Nov. 22 the Karen National Union ( KNU ) estimated that over 800 civilians , 375 government troops and 27 Karen guerrillas had been killed as a result of fighting during the last six weeks in the lower central Irrawaddy Delta , south-east of Rangoon . |
| 6 | And I got up with the intention of diving off the second one and I went no ! |
| 7 | Catch crops are usually sown in late summer or early autumn immediately after harvest , for grazing in early winter and again in the spring before ploughing for the next main crop . |
| 8 | Michelin is axing 16,000 jobs and has spent £460m on restructuring in the last two years . |
| 9 | As the anxiety for each target is overcome so the client is only ever raising their anxiety by ten units by going onto the next target . |
| 10 | " The results suggest , however , that a significant part of warming in the last century is not greenhouse-related " , he commented . |
| 11 | Civil war probably halted the work , with the result that 20th century tourists can still stumble on the stone axes where they were lain , and can study the progress of carving from the first outlines to the almost completed megalith ready to slide down from this rocky womb . |
| 12 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 13 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 14 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 15 | First , we aim to set out what has happened to the total level of spending in the last 12 years . |
| 16 | Students who show evidence of sufficient merit may on completion of the course and at the discretion of the Course Committee be given the opportunity of transferring to the second year of an appropriate degree programme within the Faculty . |
| 17 | Rainey , seeking his fourth straight world title , slid off the Santamonica circuit after leading for the first third of a race run in dry , sunny conditions . |
| 18 | With the considerable degree of replanting in the last few centuries it is possible that the Weald now exhibits a more wooded aspect than at any time since the early medieval period . |
| 19 | In three rounds of voting on the first day of the two-day congress held in Gdansk , Krzaklewski emerged as winner from a field of seven candidates . |
| 20 | The likelihood of dying in the first year is increased by no more than twofold . |
| 21 | NEXT loop without passing through the NEXT statement . |
| 22 | Having presented the far-reaching study produced by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland research committee on Auditing into the Twenty-first Century to a group of leading Scottish finance directors , we have to admit their reaction was hardly partisan ( see Governance ) . |
| 23 | ‘ I will be issuing directions to judges on sentencing in the next few days . |
| 24 | The Annales school attempts to deal with this issue by appealing to the third category identified by Braudel — that of événements ; but to say quite what événements are is no easy task . |
| 25 | And , of course , the payment of dividend itself re-instates the 40% tax rate and defeats the tax motive for incorporating in the first place . |
| 26 | They also said that maybe Strandli will push Wallace for the first team place after scoring in the last 2 reserve matches . |
| 27 | But there have been significant changes in the nature of stealing since the Second World War . |
| 28 | If you only want the bloody music , whe I , what 's the point of taping in the first place ! |
| 29 | Graham was thrust into the Palace Manager 's seat when Arthur Rowe was taken seriously ill in November l 962 , and with the club in grave danger of returning to the Fourth Division . |
| 30 | She emerged immediately and dramatically to announce that she would be continuing with the contest with the aim of winning on the second ballot . |