Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " What , " Graham said contemptuously , annoyed , " that tall bloke with the bleached hair in first year ? |
| 2 | Brian Marchbank , who closed with 79 for 305 , was among the reserve money in 66th place . |
| 3 | Students are encouraged to take a broad curriculum in first year , choosing up to 6 courses from the following : Origin and Diversity of Life ; Quantitative Biology ; Physics in the Life Sciences ; Life Science ; Human Population Biology ; Molecules and Cells ; Biological and Economic Systems ; and Chemistry for the Life Sciences ( two courses ) . |
| 4 | Malcolm Watters , senior careers tutor , careers , said : ‘ There is considerable local and national concern about the drop in number of students applying to study physics at advanced level in sixth form colleges . |
| 5 | In-form Alan Fotheringham finished the 65-mile course in sixth place , only ten seconds down on the winner , C. Pawsey of Charlottville who had an average speed of 24.25 m.p.h . |
| 6 | HOPES THAT Chancellor Kohl 's Christian Democrat party can reverse the long downward slide to possible defeat in next year 's Bundestag elections have been dashed by its poor showing in Sunday 's North Rhine-Westphalia municipal polls . |
| 7 | At that speed in first gear the revs went through the roof and the car coasted to a halt . |
| 8 | THE Liberal Democrats were prepared to do a deal which could have rescued the Government from its humiliating defeat in last week 's Maastricht rebellion . |
| 9 | Bookies William Hill has made the BBC 's Only Fools And Horses 13-8 with Coronation Street ITV 's top hope in second slot at 9-4 . |
| 10 | Thus , the study emphasises the role of social attitudes in second language learning , ie. attitudes towards learning the second language itself and towards the native speakers who make up the second language community . |
| 11 | Residential differentiation in nineteenth century Glasgow |
| 12 | Residential differentiation in nineteenth century Glasgow |
| 13 | In an ongoing study ( A Stewart , D Brenton , personal communication ) of 15 infants conceived under dietary control ( mean phenylalanine values in first trimester 213–496 µmol/l — twice to four times normal ) Griffiths developmental quotients at one year were within the normal range and head circumferences were at or above the 10th centile . |
| 14 | Other practices that once held up the flow of the dance were the continual closing in 5th position before a new step and the continual moving of the arms through 1st position at every change of weight or during a ports de bras . |
| 15 | Foreign-owned industry tends to outperform domestically-owned industry in exporting in most Third World and indeed in some sectors in First World countries . |
| 16 | Moreover , says Correa , high densities in Third World cities have not been achieved by building high-rise blocks , but by omitting play spaces , hospitals , schools and other parts of the social infrastructure . |
| 17 | For those aged 65 + only women aged 65 — 74 years show this decrease in first admission rates ( see Figures 7.7 and 7.8 ) . |
| 18 | Fraser spent eleven months racing the British entry in last year 's America 's cup … his single-handed experience is rather less |
| 19 | The women 's squad is led by Comber woman Stephanie Pruzine , Northern Ireland 's top finisher in last year 's race in Italy , and former Belfast Marathon champion , Bangor housewife and mother of four , Roma McConville . |
| 20 | The women 's squad is led by Comber woman Stephanie Pruzine , Northern Ireland 's top finisher in last year 's race in Italy , and former Belfast Marathon champion , Bangor housewife and mother of four , Roma McConville . |
| 21 | I asked him what he thought of Magritte the other day , and he thought I was talking about some girl in first year . |
| 22 | Her most recent book Hanging the Head , Portraiture and Social Formation in 18th Century England is published this month by Yale University Press |
| 23 | This weekend , the sides ' 1992 versions continued their march towards renewing this rivalry in next month 's Super Bowl by clinching play-off places . |
| 24 | The self-interest behind such measures and the harmful effects in Third World countries are plain for all to see . |
| 25 | She is considered incredibly bright , capable , and is said to have been the prime mover in persuading Mr Lamont to reduce tax on new cars — a popular move in last month 's Budget statement . |
| 26 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor baffled fans with his team selections and tactical changes in last summer 's European Championship in Sweden . |
| 27 | It is entering the mainstream to satisfy the demands of the people of the north and east , whose high turnout in last November 's election was seen as a cry for peace . |
| 28 | This morning you will visit the most important of the 39 tombs quarried out of the hillside built by the provincial princes of this district in 11th and 12th Dynasties . |
| 29 | This can be illustrated from a wide variety of cases : the uses of literacy for social control in nineteenth century Canada , for instance , where any ‘ critical ’ element was carefully excluded ( Graff , 1979 ) ; the restriction of the content of written forms to religious tracts by the Methodist missionaries who introduced literacy to Fiji in the nineteenth century ( Clammer , 1976 ) ; the examples from British literacy campaigns that show how illiteracy developed in schools because of the class-based nature of schooling ( Mace , 1979 ) ; the uses of literacy for religious and symbolic purposes in Ghana ( Goody , 1968 ) ; the greater trust placed by thirteenth century knights in England on seals and symbols as means of legitimating charters and rights to land and their suspicion of the written document as more likely to be forged and inaccurate ( Clanchy , 1979 ) ; the development in Iranian villages of forms of literacy taught in Koranic schools into forms of literacy appropriate for commercial trading in a rapidly modernising and urbanising economy ( Section 2 ) . |
| 30 | PILZ ( ACANTA ) — I wrote at some length about this German newcomer in last month 's review of budget labels . |