Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new levels of grant — £2,845 in London halls or lodgings , £2,265 out of London and £1,795 for students living at their parental home — should remain frozen from next autumn as the loan scheme is phased in . |
| 2 | Jose-Maria Olazabal , one of five players who finished equal 72nd in a field of 78 at New Orleans , has jumped into second place . |
| 3 | Gilford has 208,476.57 points and has consolidated his sixth place in the Cup table while Richardson , who finished sixth yesterday on 273 , has jumped from 13th to seventh with 184,746.41 points . |
| 4 | They stressed the principle of continuity lying behind the order in the universe which has developed through second causes ; and they were sympathetic to Darwin . |
| 5 | ICI , in sixth place last time , has fallen to 12th : still heavily dependent on commodity chemicals , ICI 's restructuring has not made it as immune to the industry 's boom-bust cycles as it had hoped . |
| 6 | With new mid-range models , NWS5000TF and the NEWS5000TG in its News workstation line , based on the R4000 RISC chip , Sony Corp is mounting a new offensive in the Japanese workstation market , where it has fallen to fourth place from third , deposed by NEC Corp as the number three player behind Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 7 | It might pay Β to help α to beat off the challenge , because if he does not the sequence might become γ — α — Β , and Β has dropped from second to third . |
| 8 | The chart on the next page shows how industrial production has fared since last July compared with the past three recessions . |
| 9 | Scientists at British Biotechnology in Oxford are pinning their hopes on this second stage of trials of P24 VLP ; the Aids drug has come through first stage trials in London aimed at finding out whether it has any adverse effects . |
| 10 | The managers of such funds are on the stump , spreading the message that their day has come at last . |
| 11 | With Summer 's Last Will it may simply be , as Christopher Palmer suggests in his notes , that its moment , its ‘ right time ’ , has come at last . |
| 12 | ‘ So reunion has come at last , thanks , I think I may say , to me , ’ Neville Chamberlain wrote to his sister . |
| 13 | let them sweetly dream that in Britain the great day has come at last . |
| 14 | A quality housing conversion has come at last to one of Paisley 's oldest landmarks , the John Neilson Institution , and saved the building from the ravages of rot . |
| 15 | Winter has come at last , and we have had some severe frosts , but we are still getting quite a lot of sun , in marked contrast to last year 's everlasting grey skies . |
| 16 | Hendry Morrison , general manager of Aberdeen Cargo Handling Services is pleased by the way the business has grown since last December . |
| 17 | It is a team which has grown since last year , reflecting the important emphasis being placed on Export sales , which have shown almost a 25% increase by value in the last two years . |
| 18 | Evert was supposed to struggle against the hard-hitting Jana Novotna , who has risen to 12th in the world rankings . |
| 19 | The fishing for sand-eels alone has risen until last year ( 1989 ) a million tonnes were taken from the North Sea by EEC member countries . |
| 20 | Rolls-Royce has risen from 14th to fourth ; our participants rated it Britain 's most innovative firm , and the one with the highest-quality products . |
| 21 | IN WHAT is becoming a very fast ride across the wastes of the Southern Ocean , Lawrie Smith 's Rothmans has moved into second place in the Whitbread Round the World Race . |
| 22 | Lawrie Smith 's Rothmans has moved into second place in the Whitbread Round the World Race . |
| 23 | Torquay has moved into second spot , with Bournemouth sliding from runner-up in 1991 to sixth this year . |
| 24 | Cohu Inc has turned in first quarter net profit up 566.2% at $1.3m , after $410,000 charges due to the cumulative effect of an accounting change last time , on turnover that rose by 41% to $17.3m . |
| 25 | Electronic Information Systems Inc has turned in first quarter net profit up by 61.9% to $871,000 , on turnover that rose by 31.3% to $7.3m . |
| 26 | Analog Devices Inc has turned in first quarter net profit of $8.1m against losses of $972,000 last time , on turnover that rose by 15.2% to $151.3m . |
| 27 | V Band Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $442,000 up from losses of $281,000 last time , on turnover that dropped by 13.5% to $5.3m . |
| 28 | Ciprico Inc has turned in first quarter net losses of $235,000 against profits of $66,000 last time , on turnover that rose by 79.7% to $2.5m . |
| 29 | Perception Technology Inc has turned in first quarter net losses of $92,202 against profits of $130,260 last time , after $40,000 tax credits last time , on turnover that rose by 7.3% to $4.5m . |
| 30 | AllTel Corp has turned in first quarter net profit up 27.3% at $63.2m , on turnover up 8.1% to $546.7m . |