Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 2 | As these anthropologists chose to investigate geographically peripheral communities , so we chose in the first instance to investigate communities that are marginal in a different sense . |
| 3 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 4 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 5 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | What these Discourses show is that ‘ science ’ still meant something wider than it does in the twentieth century ; what the lecturers were encouraging was realistic assessment and sound judgement . |
| 7 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 8 | Today undoubtedly a marriage involves fewer regulations regarding property between spouses than it did in the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 10 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
| 11 | The first and last sections of the book together add more to our knowledge of Degas ' sculpture than anything published in the last three or four decades . |
| 12 | Film reviewers have a simple rule for sizing up new movies : ‘ If nothing happens in the first ten minutes , ’ they say , ‘ nothing 's going to happen . ’ |
| 13 | You 'll go wild , like you did in the third year with Sharon Latimer . |
| 14 | If we pivot in the first of these , as indicated in the tableau , we obtain P3/T2 in which θ = θ . |
| 15 | ‘ I would love to see how Leeds would handle the situation if we scored in the first minute , as they did at Ibrox . ’ |
| 16 | If the donor dies more than seven years after the gift , there 's no duty at all payable If he dies in the seventh year the whole duty is reduced by 60 per cent , if in the sixth by 30 per cent , and in the fifth 15 per cent . ’ |
| 17 | Unless she died in the next few weeks — and why should she die ? — it could be the end of his life on the headland , the end of his organization , the end of all he had planned and hoped to do . |
| 18 | You 're not gon na say Rose that you 're not satisfied and unless it improves in the next week or so , if you will have , . |
| 19 | ‘ Every generation of the Gontaut-Biron family added something to it since it began in the twelfth century . |
| 20 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 21 | One roadie said I should have thought about it before I accepted in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 23 | Are you gon na take Mary after you got in the second year ? |
| 24 | Sean Yates produced one of Britain 's best results with 13th place , after he cramped in the last 200 yards when sprinting for third place . |
| 25 | Johnston , saddling his 48th winner of the year , should now go on to achieve his maiden half century , and does not mind whether it happens in the last four days of turf racing or on the all-weather . |
| 26 | Compacts are all about the celebration of success whether it occurs in the fourth or fifth years , sixth form or in further or higher education . |
| 27 | In relation to the former , as I indicated in the first paper , our capacity to invent commodity vocabulary is not paralleled by levels of commodity understanding . |
| 28 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 29 | The consequences of such a reduction in the level of armaments ( and more generally of ‘ military preparedness ’ ) are considerable , for as I noted in the first edition of this book , if there is any generalization about the causes of war which is supported by some empirical evidence , it seems to be that which establishes a connection between an arms race and an increased probability of war ( Richardson , 1960 ) . |
| 30 | As I said in the nineteenth century government did very little . |