Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being . |
| 2 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 3 | To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so . |
| 4 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 5 | When the light went out in the last room , Bridget began to get up . |
| 6 | Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , shades of Intel Inside , expect to see a PowerPC image campaign starting up in the second half . |
| 9 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 11 | Van Gelder said : ‘ Makes it a bit awkward , sir , does n't it , if war breaks out in the next half-hour ? ’ |
| 12 | Colleagues I 'd just like to put one of er John 's themes and that is that for the next couple of days we 've got a hell of a lot of business to get through and er we 've done quite well so far but er I would certainly be looking where possible colleagues for formally seconding er , as often as possible , if not all the time and I really appreciate your er your assistance in that regard because we have a great deal of business to get through in the next two days . |
| 13 | In short , there are many variations on the theme set out in the last paragraph . |
| 14 | To try and reduce the potential for stress to build up in the first place . |
| 15 | Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store . |
| 16 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 17 | Yet hoards found elsewhere — in Scandinavia and in northern Britain , for instance , where no such royal controls operated — show that there was plenty of " international " trade going on in the ninth century . |
| 18 | At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so . |
| 19 | If developed countries do not want their rubbish to end up in the third world , they must help developing countries to build better treatment facilities and enforce higher standards . |
| 20 | He was the seventh seed in the men 's championship to go out in the first two rounds , a record for early exits at the tournament . |
| 21 | He was the seventh seed in the men 's championship to go out in the first two rounds , a record for early exits at the tournament . |
| 22 | Whether that uncertainty affected the players can not be assessed , but this match sank below the fare served up in the last home game against Swansea , and that was bad enough . |
| 23 | That was the idea of the union starting out in the first place . |
| 24 | Word went round in the seventh century that St James the Apostle had visited Spain , and in the early ninth century a bishop of Padron discovered what he took to be his body . |
| 25 | He put the home side on their way with an excellent goal in the first half , had what looked like a perfectly good effort ruled out in the second and caused the Latvians all sorts of problems with his well timed runs from deep . |
| 26 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 27 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
| 28 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the company is working on getting Kbus-based half-gigabyte RAM boards out in the first quarter , followed 1GB boards in the second though that later date is still kind of iffy . |
| 30 | Researchers now believe the phenolic flavonoids , by acting as anti-oxidants , prevent the damaging fat building up in the first place . |