Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Articles in journals , a chapter in books on research methods and collections of conference papers ( such as that highlighted in the last edition of Observations ) , were available , but nothing that had quite the focus and range of explaining background , methodology and queries as well as providing sufficient examples .
2 The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms .
3 Time series such as that shown in the second column of figure 9.1 are displayed by plotting them against time , as shown in figure 9.2 .
4 The analysis of maximum contributions determined during 1988–89 contained in the first Legal Aid Board Annual Report ( 1989–90 ) contains the following figures relating to all courts :
5 Thanks er , did the provision for er , properties like Penguin and four and a half million for the year , did all of that come in the second half , because it 's noticeable that Penguin is ahead something like what , thirty two percent , second half on second half .
6 The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure .
7 The downturn was most marked with wines from the Beaujolais and Burgundy regions and with champagne — shipments of this declined by a third last year .
8 The first evidence of this surfaced on the second trip that I made to Rhodesia , in April 1971 .
9 These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 .
10 Several kinds of difference figure in contemporary cultural theory but two especially : sexual difference ( deriving usually though not invariably from psychoanalysis ) and cultural difference , with each of these complicated by a third kind of difference which construes meaning and identity in terms of difference or , more exactly , differential relations .
11 Many of these continued into the twentieth century .
12 Between 3 and 11% of patients will develop sustained ventricular arrhythmias following MI and 50% of these occur within the first 48 hours , and if not associated with further ischaemia , pump failure or multivessel disease they carry a good prognosis .
13 Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet .
14 Almost immediately after completing the poem , he began in the early months of 1941 to work on the fourth in the sequence ; it was entitled " Little Gidding " .
15 That eventful first full year of 1908 finished with the second Annual General Meeting in October and the presentation of the First Annual Report and Financial Statement — copies of both have luckily survived , as has the bondholders ' account which deals with the course and clubhouse construction .
16 However , Najibullah , a member of the PDPA Parcham ( " Banner " ) faction , was apparently forced to release many of those apprehended in the second round of arrests after Lt.-Gen.
17 Twenty-seven of those came in the first match , against Pontypridd ; Bedford took a similar caning and Coventry only four points less .
18 Witt , a big-serving 6ft 3ins American , produced a disastrous 12 double faults in the match but most of those came in the first set and a half when Wilkinson could hardly put a foot wrong .
19 There is now overwhelming evidence that outcome for people with schizophrenia in Western industrialized countries is markedly inferior to that of those living in the Third World .
20 In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more .
21 A closer examination of the figures shows that of those founded during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , excluding those of the guilds and fraternities , one-fifth were perpetual .
22 In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant .
23 One hundred patients of a total of 335 presenting for the first time with variceal haemorrhage were recruited into the study and randomised .
24 However , he got out of the commitment and at the age of 20 embarked on the first of many journeys to Europe .
25 After declining sharply up to 1979 its share of both stabilized in the first years of the Thatcher government , only to fall once more into the late 1980s .
26 I mean , cotton and things like this come from the Third World , does n't it .
27 C. Across most of Devon and Cornwall the landforms are like those shown in the last of the three diagrams on the next page .
28 The development of exploitation also leads to the formation of ideas , concepts , values , and institutions , but these , unlike those produced by the first process , are geared to operating exploitation , and involve giving the appearance of legitimacy to exploitation , as well as hiding its true nature from the exploited .
29 The improvement achieved in all major classes during 1992 continued into the first quarter of 1993 as the portfolio benefited increasingly from action on rates and operating costs .
30 With 10 needed off the last three overs of the day , Waqar worked Salisbury to mid-wicket for three .
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