Example sentences of "[verb] [num ord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Czech Lands Civic Forum won about half the total votes , and in Slovakia PAV emerged as the clear winner , although the latter had been expected until shortly before the election to come second to the CDM . |
| 2 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 3 | He defeated the emigré businessman Stanislaw Tyminski , who had surprisingly come second in the first round of the elections held on Nov. 25 [ see pp. 37840-41 ] , by 10,622,696 votes ( 74.3 per cent ) to 3,693,098 ( 25.7 per cent ) . |
| 4 | Emil Constantinescu , who had come second in the presidential elections in September [ see p. 39104 ] , was elected president of the main opposition alliance , the Democratic Convention ( DCR ) , on Nov. 27 . |
| 5 | The Emperor emerged from the cathedral itself at half past seven , escorted by the Abuna , the Patriarch of Alexandria and the Etchege , the senior monk of the realm who ranked second to the Abuna in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Church . |
| 6 | The Scot was dumped 5-2 by 26-year-old Dave Harold from Stoke , who stands 93rd in the world rankings . |
| 7 | Mr Clay drew eighth in the ballot for private member 's bills , but with only seven Fridays available for second readings has limited chances of seeing his bill made law . |
| 8 | He was in danger of becoming part of the establishment and there was a new young punk hungry for his chance : twenty-one-year-old Brock Little had come fourth in the 1986 Eddie Aikau when Foo was second . |
| 9 | He went to India in 1870 to work first for the raja of Kathiawar , and then for the public works department of the government of India , in which he became executive engineer , military works . |
| 10 | Refinement of interim conclusions based on national antislavery organisation will concentrate first on the elements of agitation in winning over support to antislavery by paying attention to local antislavery committees or societies , types of antislavery meeting and petitioning . |
| 11 | She was to be sure to concentrate first on the relaxation part of the exercise , and was to stop immediately if she felt herself becoming at all upset . |
| 12 | The first group contains a wave singly scattered by the adatom , denoted as , and all the waves doubly scattered first by the adatom and then by a substrate atom , denoted as as , i , where i is a substrate atom near the adatom , and the summation is over all the doubly scattered waves with sufficient large amplitudes . |
| 13 | However , at a more basic level it was also influenced by research which examined the nature of the problem of caring for dementia sufferers at home ; this section , therefore , looks first at the problems of care , and then at other innovative projects . |
| 14 | The present paper looks first at the general context of the discussions within Ashdown School and then outlines some of the issues that emerged from the research . |
| 15 | Tod looks first at the face ; then the breasts ; then the lower abdomen . |
| 16 | Hard disks can be huge , so DOS does n't search the whole thing for a matching name ; instead it looks first in the current directory and then in the subdirectories which are specified in the PATH command . |
| 17 | Thus we speculated that a free radical reaction occurred first in the extracellular space after indomethacin administration , and SOD and catalase after the concentration of α-tocopherol by their actions as scavengers of superoxides and inhibitors of the production of hydroxyl radicals . |
| 18 | However , small libraries , ( or those who did n't send staff on many external courses ) , often looked first to the opportunity to be able to attend external courses rather than develop internal programmes . |
| 19 | As the realm from which the current Phoenix King comes Eataine ( pronounced Ay-a-tain ) is considered first among the Elf Kingdoms . |
| 20 | It was Bugner to putt first from the edge of the green . |
| 21 | The WHO ( 1986 ) reported that in industrialised countries , accident injuries rank fifth among the leading causes of death in children and young people . |
| 22 | Elizabeth Wills reported first on the local Mothers ' Union , now in abeyance , and then on the Scramblers group and deanery synod matters , while the final report came from Doris Martin on flower arrangements . |
| 23 | Automatic top-up with a ballcock will allow all water in a new pool to pass first through the Eradicator . |
| 24 | We find them mentioned first during the reign of Edward I , in the 14th century when they were assessed to pay 20/ for the knighting of the Black Prince . |
| 25 | Michael from Bedale has just come first in the Caterbility contest for cookery students organised by British Gas . |
| 26 | ‘ At home , children expect to come first in the life of the family and in school many of them behave in a selfish , uncaring way with no idea of consideration of others , ’ wrote another . |
| 27 | If there were a need for a review or anything of that sort the initiative would have to come first from the Catering Sub-Committee . |
| 28 | I suppose that I really put two and two together when reading a ( non aquatic ) book on the rain forest , which mentioned that the Rio Negro in Brazil was dark , due to a weak tea effect as the water percolated first through the vegetation and then through the sandy subsoil ( as opposed to clay subsoils elsewhere in the Amazon basin ) . |
| 29 | The cursor now lies next to the prompt TRANSFER SAVE filename : and the Message Line requests you to Enter filename |
| 30 | They make up the active elements of inflammation , and are concentrated in ‘ lymphoid tissue ’ such as : the tonsils ; the ‘ glands ’ in the groin , armpit and neck ( more properly called lymph nodes ) ; and the spleen which lies next to the stomach in the abdomen , as well as the bone marrow where they are made . |