Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] in [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
2 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
3 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
4 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
5 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
6 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
7 | The consequences of such a reduction in the level of armaments ( and more generally of ‘ military preparedness ’ ) are considerable , for as I noted in the first edition of this book , if there is any generalization about the causes of war which is supported by some empirical evidence , it seems to be that which establishes a connection between an arms race and an increased probability of war ( Richardson , 1960 ) . |
8 | ‘ I played in the last game in the Third Division before we were relegated to the Fourth . |
9 | ‘ You think I arrived in the last shower or rain ? |
10 | He also considered an argument based on freedom of speech , but rejected it for reasons which I consider in the next section of this judgment . |
11 | I stated in the last chapter that , in becoming anorexic , I did the only thing I could . |
12 | The house move necessitated my moving school , to Brackenbury in Hammersmith where I began in the third year . |
13 | In relation to the former , as I indicated in the first paper , our capacity to invent commodity vocabulary is not paralleled by levels of commodity understanding . |
14 | ‘ Yes , Bill Black and I quit in the fifth year , just before Elvis went into the Army . |
15 | I suppose in the First World War , I do n't remember an awful lot about it , we wer always seemed to have enough to eat but er I , I think the Second World War whatever there was it was fairly distributed . |
16 | But I suppose in the last resort , they must have thought that the less sophisticated engineering featured here is only likely to attract a specialist audience . |
17 | As I hinted in the first paper , traditional design understanding has tried , in effect , to simplify design to make it conform to an already existent model of what a ( scientific , technological , artistic ) activity should look like . |
18 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
19 | Such a concept clearly requires further exploration , which I attempt in the next chapter . |
20 | The answers to these questions will be found in the analysis of cultural-ideological transnational practices and , in particular , the culture-ideology of consumerism in the Third World , to which I turn in the next chapter . |
21 | Well I say , if we did and you just took it in and I went in the next day and picked it up . |
22 | Erm I think in the first instance , an assessment needs to be done of all the la of the landscape quality and I would suggest that it ought to be directed away from from areas of high landscape quality , towards areas of a lower landscape quality . |
23 | So what we , we need to go to him I think in the first instance and say we want to do X Y and Z , and if he , if he says fine you know . |
24 | Er , he was in the ambulance corp , I think in the First World War , but he was a redback . |
25 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
26 | Although manager Billy Bonds refuses to give up , he admitted : ‘ I think in the last month we have always felt it was going to be very difficult for us . |
27 | In terms of Julia Kristeva 's model , which I introduced in the last chapter , this would be a first stage , liberal equal-rights-and-opportunities response . |
28 | The first of the three conceptions of law I introduced in the last chapter , which I called conventionalism , shares the general ambition of the popular slogan , though the interpretation it builds is more subtle in two ways . |
29 | The second general conception of law I introduced in the last chapter , legal pragmatism , holds that people are never entitled to anything but the judicial decision that is , all things considered , best for the community as a whole , without regard to any past political decision . |
30 | As I discussed in the first paper , design has to be characterised in terms of activity . |