Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 2 | His arguments for the existence of God developed the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ of Anselm into the form which Kant criticised in the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | The Damiani family made their decision to leave in the third week of April after snipers in Tel Aviv began shooting into the centre of Jaffa , sending at least one bullet into David Damiani 's home . |
| 4 | Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support . |
| 5 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 6 | Ogden and Richards , in contrast , stress that words are used to ‘ point to ’ things , and that their meaning does in the last analysis depend on the things they are used to point to , their referents ; language may be different from reality , therefore , but it nonetheless reflects it . |
| 7 | While the result gives Peter Shilton 's side hope in their efforts to stay in the Second Division , the FA Cup finalists will face their own anxious battle against relegation between now and May 9 . |
| 8 | The statue of the Archangel Michael had its head removed in the seventeenth century by a marksman in the castle . |
| 9 | It is , then , unsafe to generalise as Lyons does that : ‘ until modern methods of sound recording were developed ( a ) the inscription of language utterances on durable materials provided a more reliable means of transmission than memory and oral reproduction ’ and ( b ) that this was ‘ recognised to be so in the western tradition in which literacy developed in the first instance for this purpose ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 10 | The historic town of Great Malvern , 7 miles away , came into prominence through its spa waters in the 18th and 19th centuries , although its origins as several disconnected villages are much earlier ; indeed its beautiful priory church was completed by craftsmen in 1460 . |
| 11 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 12 | It recounts the dehumanizing conditions under which children labour in the Third World in order to provide commodities and services to consumers usually from the West . |
| 13 | According to a report in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of Jan. 10 , 1990 , the European Commission of Human Rights , to which plaintiffs turned in the first instance , had registered 1,445 cases brought by individuals or private organizations in 1989 ( a 40 per cent increase on the previous year ) . |
| 14 | According to the US Mortgage Bankers ' Association , the number of homeowners more than 30 days behind in their repayments fell in the second quarter of the year to its lowest level in 10 years . |
| 15 | Its history begins in the last years of the ninth century . |
| 16 | Although curling , as a competitive game , had been played in Ayrshire for many centuries , its popularity increased in the 18th and 19th centuries , with town competing against town , village against village , and parish against parish . |
| 17 | We asked respondents whether they had been stopped ( on foot or in a vehicle ) or had their house searched in the last year , and whether they had been arrested in the last five years ( called here , ‘ stopped , etc . ’ ) |
| 18 | The Second Symphony is still widely known as the ‘ Little Ruissian ’ because of the folk songs from that area which Tchaikovsky uses in the first and fourth movements . |
| 19 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
| 20 | I come from a family , many of whose members fought in the last war , but at least that was a serious war . |
| 21 | In any case , among scholars whose careers fall in the first half of the sixteenth century note should be made of Sinaneddin Yusuf , mentioned above ; of Molla Pir Ahmad Celebi b . |
| 22 | Jews and the ‘ Jewish Question , were mentioned as such neither in Hitler 's New Year exhortation to his Party at the beginning of 1932 , nor in his notorious speech to the Düsseldorfer Industrieklub in January , nor in his ‘ Appeal to the Nation ’ , sold as a record in July and typical of his election addresses in the first half of the year . |
| 23 | He also declared his willingness to participate in the second round of the presidential poll and said that UNITA would attend forthcoming multiparty talks convened by the MPLA-PT . |
| 24 | However inadequate his predictions proved in the twentieth century , Marx 's appeal remains incomprehensible unless it is recognized that he did have an unsurpassed grasp of nineteenth-century capitalism . |
| 25 | Thus did his byline appear in the first issue . |
| 26 | So , as Harriet Ryley reports , he never knew of , and was never honoured for the vital role his plane played in the Second World War . |
| 27 | Surely it must be his duty to call in the next day or so on Paul Berowne 's wife and his family . |
| 28 | But what is particularly interesting in the context of what his house became in the Second World War — and indeed what it is today , a Post Office Engineering Training establishment — was his financial interest in the Anglo-American Telegraph Company . |
| 29 | yeah , we 've lost an enormous amount of staff probably a third of our staff disappeared in the last twelve months , and I think y you we must recognise it 's bound to make an impact and here we are sitting here feeling a bit shell shocked and that 's no doubt one of the contributory factors . |
| 30 | I think the second line of the new song is ' Brian Deane , Brian Deane , Fergie 's in a sweat' , but what our Deano does in the first line to put old Taggart-face in that state is anybody 's guess . |