Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes a young civil servant would be appointed to a subordinate revenue position immediately after passing the first law examination . |
| 2 | The European featherweight champion may not be allowed to take his place in the quarter finals tonight after sustaining a second eye injury in his win over German 's Siegmund Franke . |
| 3 | But the tragic star was still critically ill on a life-support machine after having a second blood clot removed from his brain . |
| 4 | Stirling should have made sure of victory and further ease their own relegation worries after taking a 25th minute lead through Willie Watters . |
| 5 | POSTIES in Luton , Beds , are claiming a record after delivering a second class letter 75 minutes after it was posted . |
| 6 | But why should any western power go to the trouble of administering a third world country when these can simply be milked dry ? |
| 7 | Well Nick , you have n't got the benefit of seeing the second division table in front of you . |
| 8 | The vertical distance between the marginal social cost MSC and the marginal social benefit as given by DD shows the marginal social loss of producing the last output unit . |
| 9 | The Week 's Foundation was in the process of developing a second museum site in the Orlando area — this plan is still on the drawing boards . |
| 10 | The fact that many of us start with one playback system housed in a special " video room " encourages the analogy with the language laboratory — and we do n't usually think of installing a second language laboratory unless it 's a very big institute . |
| 11 | Defender also had the distinction of having the first woman finisher , Mandy Gallow . |
| 12 | The result revives Swindon 's flagging hopes of reaching the Second Division promotion playoffs . |
| 13 | With the greatest respect to Rumbelows , and the 76,000 packed inside Wembley , United hope that their success yesterday will soon be dwarfed by the achievement of lifting the First Division title for the first time since 1967 . |
| 14 | MIDDLESBROUGH Mohawks face a nervous wait for the safe arrival of Norman Findlay from the United States to boost their chances of lifting the Second Division championship at Wembley on Sunday . |
| 15 | GRAHAM TAYLOR yesterday turned for salvation to Nigel Clough , the Nottingham Forest star who declared England had no chance of winning the next World Cup . |
| 16 | This is rather like saying the second world war only started when the doodlebugs started falling . |
| 17 | Secretary Meretta Griffiths said : ‘ With so much work having gone into preparing the 50th anniversary show and with many exhibitors having taken up position we decided that the show should go on . ’ |
| 18 | The session had been intended to set a date for reconvening the 14th party congress , which had broken up in disarray on Jan. 23 [ see pp. 37172 ] . |
| 19 | He succeeded in producing the first development plan for Athens since it was liberated from the Turks , but in 1984 he was forced to resign over his proposal for establishing a green belt by bulldozing illegal slums in the suburbs . |
| 20 | These and even later attempts to resurrect ‘ planning ’ , especially economic planning , raise the basic difficulty in seeing the Second World War as the planners ' triumph . |
| 21 | The program proceeds by incrementing POINTER , picking up the next delay value from the acceleration table and waiting until the step interval is complete , before generating the next excitation change . |
| 22 | The internal changes in productive post-artisanal relations in literature are especially significant in understanding the next market phase . |
| 23 | The certification to BS 5750 for Design and Construction which followed the successful assessment by BSI last autumn , was fitting reward for the hard work and efforts of all WEC staff in establishing a first class Quality Management System . |
| 24 | In writing the last line use has been made of identities such as which result from changing a repeated suffix , in this case . |
| 25 | H.P.I. is an organisation which operates a register where finance companies can register their hire purchase agreements so that any other member ( e.g. a car dealer ) can , before buying a second hand car , check with H.P.I. to see if the car is the subject of a registered hire purchase agreement . |
| 26 | Does using the pupil 's mother tongue in teaching a second language help or hinder their progress ? |
| 27 | JOHN SMITH , lecturer in the Law Department , warned Marian Jackson at the beginning of her second year that too much time spent with Dram Soc would prevent her from getting a first class degree . |
| 28 | Gooch was so disillusioned by his last full tour to India that he barely unpacked his bags at home in Essex at the end of it before joining the first rebel tour to South Africa . |
| 29 | There is little point in having a first aid kit on the ground floor if you cut your foot badly upstairs . |
| 30 | Not only was it an important factor in winning the Second World War , for its specific electrical insulating properties were a key to the development of radar , but it is one of those rare inventions which create an entirely new industrial development . |