Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The results suggest , however , that a significant part of warming in the last century is not greenhouse-related " , he commented . |
| 2 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 3 | First , we aim to set out what has happened to the total level of spending in the last 12 years . |
| 4 | With the considerable degree of replanting in the last few centuries it is possible that the Weald now exhibits a more wooded aspect than at any time since the early medieval period . |
| 5 | The likelihood of dying in the first year is increased by no more than twofold . |
| 6 | The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’ |
| 7 | If you only want the bloody music , whe I , what 's the point of taping in the first place ! |
| 8 | He could have given us a picture of Halling in the 16th century , but we will come to that later when investigating his own life here at Halling . |
| 9 | A big quake east of the Rocky Mountains — and one greater than magnitude 6 has a 50 to 60 per cent chance of occurring in the next 25 years — could make California 's Loma Prieta seem trifling . |
| 10 | ‘ But I wo n't know how bad the damage is until I see the physio tomorrow , and then I may have an idea if I have a chance of playing in the first league game . ’ |
| 11 | The unfortunate animal in question is incarcerated in a closed box which also contains a radioactive atom with a 50-50 chance of decaying in the next hour , emitting a y-ray in the process . |
| 12 | There are two reasons for this : first , it provides a complete and convincing display of the art of drawing in the second half of the fifteenth century , with outstanding exhibits lent by major collections worldwide . |
| 13 | Because the pattern of trading in the first year of the market was so confined by technical and political constraints it would be unsafe to generalise from it . |
| 14 | The report starts by reviewing the pattern of spending in the first two years of the fund . |
| 15 | In Ireland the prospect of playing in the second World Cup brought the arm-wrestling contest between the powerful Irish Universities and the students union to an end . |
| 16 | ( We will talk more about the role of visualizing in the next section . ) |
| 17 | The invention of printing in the fifteenth century steadily did away with the need for handwritten books , and it is interesting to note that from that time onwards various styles of calligraphy developed for different purposes . |
| 18 | The invention of printing in the 16th century had resulted in a rapid spread of literacy . |
| 19 | However , like the paternalistic approach to the working class of the Peabody Trust and the Octavia Hill system of housing in the nineteenth century , which attempted to train tenants in the virtues of punctual payment and thrift by enforcing a ban on arrears , the housing benefit simply seeks to make people pay their rent by paying if for them . |
| 20 | When elected in 1981 , the Mitterrand government harked back to the legacy of planning in the first postwar decades ( chapter 18 ) . |
| 21 | He could link both with a talent for seeing the future and the past from a sideways , yet very humanly understandable , perspective in short , bringing out the magic of travelling in the fourth dimension to the audience sitting at home . |