Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
| 2 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 3 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 4 | 1990-91commitments in support of macroeconomic and structural policies totalled only SDR5,600 million , two-thirds of which had been committed in the last four months to five countries — Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland and Romania . |
| 5 | A final decision is expected in the next two weeks , although the Government yesterday refused to confirm or deny reports that it was to scrap the registers . |
| 6 | Many changes in cataloguing and classification can be expected in the next ten years and these must impinge upon DC , influencing its future function and the way in which the scheme will evolve . |
| 7 | The re-launch of the share issue is expected in the next few weeks . |
| 8 | An announcement from the Home Office confirming the reopening of Oxford is expected in the next few weeks |
| 9 | A further 120 rods are expected in the next few months and air transport is a possibility , the UKAEA says . |
| 10 | East Anglia was forgotten in the next three novels . |
| 11 | Scenes of disorder on a smaller scale were reported in the first two weeks of February in Laghout , Constantine , Tiaret , Medea ( where disturbances lasted six days ) , Bourj Menail , Mascara , various suburbs of Algiers and elsewhere . |
| 12 | J.W.B. Douglas ( 1973 ) found that children who have no stressful event reported in the first four years of life ( especially the third and fourth ) are much less likely to wet their beds than children who have experienced these events . |
| 13 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 14 | Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago . |
| 15 | ‘ I have obtained the police accident reports for each junction that you will drive through and have counted all accidents that have been reported in the last three years on any part of the junction . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |
| 17 | ‘ It means the long waiting lists for surgery and outpatients will be substantially shortened in the next few months , ’ Dr Mulholland said . |
| 18 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 19 | 30 per cent of South Africa 's native woodlands have been felled in the last 15-20 years . |
| 20 | Reports that golf will not be included in the next Olympic Games were denied at a conference staged during a busy week . |
| 21 | In vain has Adrienne written asking for news from the North-East to be included in the last two issues : for we had nothing to report beyond our puny struggles against the mighty Aerobics phenomenon . |
| 22 | If , for example , the bulk of the academic element is contained in the first two years of a course , then the second two can be devoted to developing teaching strategies . |
| 23 | You must first seek to interest the editor and to do this you must make certain that the essence of the story is contained in the first few sentences . |
| 24 | You have at your disposal all the information on Palatine Ales contained in the last two cases , together with the earlier material on Acorn Hotels Ltd and Cheshire Restaurants Ltd . |
| 25 | However , if every seventh word has been deleted in the first few sentences , then every seventh word must be deleted for the rest of the test . |
| 26 | We have n't gone , in physics , seriously into trying to understand the biological aspects , but then you see biology is becoming dominated in the last ten years by the understanding of basic biochemistry of cells . |
| 27 | Celtic had three players booked in the first 20 minutes to illustrate just how fired up they were . |
| 28 | Discussion of this aspect will be pursued in the last two sections of this chapter as already promised . |
| 29 | These are addressed in the first five rooms , which treat late Bellini , Giorgione ( above all in the half-lengths ) , the Venetian Sebastiano , early Titian and the Giorgione-Titian-Campagnola controversy among the drawings . |
| 30 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |