Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun sg] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the larger nations in the 1980S IBM in effect became the second national champion , and in some smaller countries perhaps even the first national champion computer supplier . |
| 2 | My Lords , erm i legislation is complex and I agree that we should do what we can to keep a clear er , er to keep it clear and simple if it 's at all possible and erm er I agree though that one needs a fully up-to-date text of the nineteen sixty four Police Act in order to decipher every last dot and comma . |
| 3 | The proprietor , Lord Mansfield , arrived on the scene in time to save the last stone . |
| 4 | We could not do the trip in and out of the town in time to catch the last plane that evening , so we were condemned to this place and an early flight . |
| 5 | These not only sell flights but also juggle capacities and fares in order to squeeze the last cent of revenue out of every aircraft seat . |
| 6 | He sighed deeply : he had insisted upon her accompanying him that day in order to enjoy the last precious hours of her innocence and happiness . |
| 7 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 8 | Thus we were able to examine the effects of presenting the intestine with a similar glucose load but in monomeric or polymeric form with an obligatory reduction in osmolality accompanying the last . |
| 9 | It would therefore seem an opportune moment for the government to impose stricter regulation and policing of the pharmaceutical/pesticide/herbicide branches of the chemical industry , including a more severe form of export control in order to protect the Third World . |
| 10 | He crossed the street , dodging the traffic , reaching the door in time to see a second figure stepping into the elevator . |
| 11 | The aim of the course was to get group members to think about disability issues in order to take a first step forward in working together . |
| 12 | The ploy worked and from its modest slot around 4.30 on Sunday afternoons Pathfinders in Space attracted the first real family audience for a science fiction serial . |
| 13 | To examine all the relevant ballot papers in order to discover the next available preference ( if any ) that they show would be a task of daunting complexity . |
| 14 | The expansion of the middle-class was one aspect of the great increase in population marking the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | That discussion in turn reflected a second difference . |
| 16 | Hence the need to explore any avenue that will provide a variety of services in order to allay the second fear about specialism — that the service will become labelled as one for the poor only . |
| 17 | yet the revival of his ‘ non-Gilbert ’ works has hardly caught fire in time to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth in London on May 13th 1842 . |
| 18 | Special weight was laid on reconciliation within the family , and prodigal sons were urged to speed to the parental bedside in order to receive a last blessing . |