Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 2 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 3 | Notice how the sunset and the greeting are welded together in the last stanzas and are transformed into the endless journey and ‘ human sweetness ’ of the last three lines . |
| 4 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 5 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 6 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 7 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 8 | A spokesman for the Northern Constabulary at Inverness denied the accusations of harassment but confirmed that the site had been visited twice in the last few days and that several people had been charged . |
| 9 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 10 | For effectiveness , then , magazines and journals tend to reach the most relevant markets , provided they are selected carefully in the first place . |
| 11 | Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place . |
| 12 | ‘ What is important now is to collect as much information as possible before the sites retreat still further — and before any are washed away in the next big storm . ’ |
| 13 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
| 14 | This method has been used only in the twentieth century . |
| 15 | That there were chemically different gases had been shown earlier in the 18th century . |
| 16 | Most of these options have been closed out in the last two decades . |
| 17 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 18 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 19 | That is , in spite of revising their reservation wages upwards , they are exiting faster in the second period than in the first period . |
| 20 | The war in the Gulf was a reminder of the instability along NATO 's southern flank ; long-range missiles are spreading dangerously in the third world ; Eastern Europe is never short of alarming political wobbles . |
| 21 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 22 | The CTVM also has links at present with research projects in Nepal , Zimbabwe , Kenya , Tanzania , Peru , Mexico , Malawi and Indonesia and CTVM staff are based permanently in the last two projects . |
| 23 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 24 | Norwich 's victory was a triumph for the tactical surprise sprung by manager Walker , who deployed a sweeper to curb the threat of Villa dangermen Dean Saunders and Dalian Atkinson , who have been running amok in the last two months . |
| 25 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 26 | Salisbury had been laid out in the thirteenth century , rather in the fashion of the twentieth century garden cities . |
| 27 | The rules which must be followed in arranging and conducting the election are set out in the first schedule to the 1983 Act as amended . |
| 28 | The rights are set out in the Eighth Schedule to the 1971 Act and are divided into two parts : Part I allows for the full rebuilding of any building and Part II for its extension . |
| 29 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 30 | The details of this will be explained fully in the next chapter . |