Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] place " in BNC.
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1 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
2 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
3 | The prizes at £75 for the winner , £50 for the runner-up and £25 for the third place . |
4 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
5 | Now , a great black car with tinted windows was taking up not only her place but part of the next place too . |
6 | I know , I know , 1 hear you say , this precious Boy of yours surely has no imagination if he is content with the first place he finds and the very first crowd of men that he runs across . |
7 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
8 | Andrew McMullen completed the scoring for the junior boys with a fourth place in the 1980 freestyle . |
9 | Only two points separated the two mend going into the Italian Grand Prix at Monza when , six weeks after his accident , Lauda was back behind the wheel and , amazingly , increased his lead in the championship with a fourth place after Hunt failed to finish . |
10 | And in the fifth place … . ’ |
11 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
12 | Is that something that you feel may come from the ‘ hothouse ’ atmosphere of drama school in the first place ? |
13 | But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident . |
14 | It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs . |
15 | While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating . |
16 | ‘ Well , if he was repairing the machinery , it ca n't have been safe in the first place , can it ? ’ |
17 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
18 | That 's why I left SIS in the first place . ’ |
19 | A re-check should never be necessary , since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place . |
20 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
21 | They promote health and help prevent illness in the first place . |
22 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
23 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |
24 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
25 | Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it . |
26 | And I would not have made the war in the first place . ’ |
27 | Having your real job abolished must mean there was no real job in the first place . |
28 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
29 | But why the need for the increase in the marioc subsidy in the first place ? ’ |
30 | There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place . |