Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [vb pp] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Husayn could only contemplate this option with equanimity if most of the Palestine refugees moved out of his territory — presumably back to Palestine , an issue considered in the next chapter . |
| 2 | More specifically , in sentences such as those above , in which an event mentioned in the first clause is explained by a reason or cause stated in a following because clause , that world knowledge includes information about what Garvey & Caramazza ( 1974 ) call the implicit causality of the verb in the first clause . |
| 3 | East of the town there is Langney , on flat marshy land , an area developed in the last twenty-five years . |
| 4 | This fascinating German town has an abbey founded in the ninth century , several other medieval churches , well preserved guild-houses , and a fifteenth-century town hall . |
| 5 | Aldridge , who had an effort blocked in the second minute , secured the dream start in the fourth . |
| 6 | If there is a clear pause ( silence ) between ‘ John ’ and ‘ is it you ’ , then according to the definition of an utterance given in the last chapter , there are two utterances ; however , it is quite likely that a speaker would say ‘ John is it you ’ with no pause , so that the four syllables would make up a single utterance . |
| 7 | Mr Sowerby worked for the Water Board and unfortunately was permanently affected by an injury sustained in the First World War . |