Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [vb pp] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Letts is the second guard killed in 25 years . |
| 2 | It is the second example cited in this text which provides the key to these dispositions of contentment . |
| 3 | The main plank in the abolitionist 's platform is that there should be no place in a modern democratic state for a second chamber composed in large part on the principle of heredity and in lesser part on that of nomination . |
| 4 | The CM-1300 is the second system introduced in three months from Tandem 's development partnership with NCR Corp and NCR added it as a new StarServer FT . |
| 5 | In response the Federal Reserve on Feb. 1 cut its discount rate ( which determined the cost of short-term loans to banks ) by half a percentage point to 6 per cent , its second half-point cut in six weeks , in an attempt to stimulate investment by encouraging banks to increase consumer borrowing . |
| 6 | The second principle used in tone-unit boundary identification is a rhythmical one : it is claimed that within the tone-unit , speech has a regular rhythm , but that rhythm is broken or interrupted at the tone-unit boundary . |
| 7 | Mr Walsh — the sixth Catholic killed in three days — died instantly in the gun attack at the Dairy Farm Centre on the Stewartstown Road . |
| 8 | Usually is the first remedy needed in any accident or injury . |
| 9 | Weller , at No 21 with Uh Huh , Oh Yeh , — his first major hit in four years — says : ‘ People have probably known more about my politics than my music . |
| 10 | If so , Parler 's is the first self-portrait known in medieval art . |
| 11 | Elsbeth Lindner , rebuilding Weidenfeld 's fiction list , has bought a first novel set in Civil War England and Puritan America which she hesitates , she says , to bill as ‘ a prequel to The Scarlet Letter ’ because it is ‘ very much a novel in its own right ’ . |
| 12 | Push empty needles from non working to working position and make a hem by placing loops of first row worked in main yarn evenly along the row . |
| 13 | Push empty needles from non working to working position and makes a hem by placing loops of first row worked in main yarn evenly along the row . |
| 14 | Push empty needles from non working to working position and make a hem by placing loops of first row worked in main yarn evenly along the row . |
| 15 | The mode is aptly described as ‘ thinking aloud in verse ’ : another way of putting it , reversing the first account given in this paragraph , would be to say that an argument of the mature poet ( consciousness I ) is illustrated and exemplified by a passage of recollected memory which is relived ( in consciousness II ) . |
| 16 | As the science of the nineteenth century advanced in analytical skills , it became increasingly possible to tie down results to specific plants and the chemicals therein , until a pure chemical could be prescribed for a particular symptom . |
| 17 | This hall has seen some of the greatest figures of the twentieth century locked in heated debate . |
| 18 | This is the second or third closure announced in recent times — it 'll have a major impact . |
| 19 | The third theme discussed in this section of the reader is changes in assessment policy . |
| 20 | However , the Chelsea chairman was last night locked in delicate negotiations with John Duggan , the chairman of Cabra Estates , whose subsidiary , SB Properties , own the site . |
| 21 | JAGUAR and General Motors were last night locked in crucial talks over a deal which would safeguard the luxury car maker from being taken over by the rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 22 | In the last episode of Star Trek — The Next Generation shown in this country , Captain Jean Luc Picard is kidnapped by the beastly automaton alien hive-race — the Borg . |