Example sentences of "[adv] at [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Lara was dropped low down at first slip by Wessels off his first ball from Snell , and Keith Arthurton , in his first Test for three years , survived two slip catches off no-balls and another actual chance in his top score of 59 , filled with 10 exciting on-side boundaries . |
| 2 | Gooch , though , England 's loyal and reliable banker , went for his second modest score of the match , a choker of a dismissal in that he was held down at second slip at 3.43pm , three minutes into interval time . |
| 3 | Foot to step down at next election |
| 4 | Although Wright was missed by Gooch , low down at third slip off DeFreitas when 3 , the serious stuff began only when Tufnell was given the ball for the 26th over . |
| 5 | A new generation of nobles who were not to taste the sweetness of military success and knew only at second hand of the prestige and profits gained in the 1340s and 1350s led the opposition to the court in the last years of Edward III 's reign and during the reign of Richard II . |
| 6 | The men that stepped out of the car looked suitable enough at first glance . |
| 7 | Virtually all libraries did nominate someone as having responsibility for training ( only six libraries did not ) so at first sight it would appear that theoretically at least item ( 1 ) above has been largely fulfilled . |
| 8 | Besides China in second place , India comes in at fifth place in the league , and Mexico and Brazil are also both bigger than Canada , currently the G7 's seventh man . |
| 9 | The expedition organisers are still hoping he 'll make it to camp for and radio in at first light tomorrow . |
| 10 | The top-placed battery car came in at eighth place . |
| 11 | ‘ Your appointment will be posted throughout the levels , tonight at twelfth bell . |
| 12 | Not at first sight by the 19th century , which has John Keats reading medicine , Samuel Taylor Coleridge playing with chemistry , and Mary Shelley writing science fiction . |
| 13 | In the sciences it is a commonplace , not at first sight disturbing , that physics began by simulating Euclid 's demonstrations in geometry , and that the inverse square law of gravitation became the model for another in electro-magnetism , that ‘ waves ’ of sound or light are suggested by waves on water , and the genetic ‘ code ’ by language . |
| 14 | Perhaps I was not at first sight the most employable of people . |
| 15 | While these two viewpoints may not at first sight appear to be strikingly different , they do in fact embody two quite opposing ways of approaching the discipline . |
| 16 | When , in March , she realised her period was overdue , Liza did not at first worry . |
| 17 | The more successful the shops became , the more the branch managers reported back on those lines which sold well , thereby wielding a power which Laura did not at first wish to accept . |
| 18 | It was decided that unless they got word of a change in direction from the scouts the Regent had sent to follow the enemy 's route , the Scots host , now numbering some thirteen thousand , would set off at first light , south-westwards , on a converging course . |
| 19 | ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow . |
| 20 | Rogers and Lambert took off at first light to see what was happening . |
| 21 | He wondered what he would do if he could n't get into the house … well , he supposed he could go back to Joseph 's place , spend the night there and then hurry home at first light , when the servants would be up . |
| 22 | Tower Hamlets declined to make the repayment and Chetnik applied for judicial review of the adverse decision , unsuccessfully at first instance but successfully in the Court of Appeal and in your Lordships ' House . |
| 23 | The story is now taken up at second hand . |
| 24 | As I approach Jamie 's house , I glance up at the-first floor . |
| 25 | Experts from 24 countries met in Trondheim , Norway , in May under the auspices of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) to discuss implementation of the biodiversity treaty drawn up at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 26 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp Windows NT , their Unix efforts will hang separately , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc , Univel Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at last week 's UniForum trade show in San Francisco to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix workstation vendors ( UX No 427 ) . |
| 27 | Mr. Beazley invites me to give a very broad interpretation to paragraph 12 of the Kalfelis [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 5565 judgment and to say that all these swap actions fall broadly within the test that it is expedient to hear and determine them together ; he argues that the use of the plural in that paragraph shows that the principle there laid down covers several defendants in groups of actions as well as several defendants in an individual action ; and he submits that there is a risk here of irreconcilable judgments , seeing that both at first instance and thereafter , if the cases proceed up to the appellate process , different decisions may be reached in England and Scotland respectively , on the questions of English law which arise ( there is no suggestion that Scottish law applies to these actions ) . |
| 28 | The action had been struck out at first instance , an appeal to the Court of Appeal had failed but a petition for leave to appeal to the House of Lords was still pending . |
| 29 | This enables the Bureau to find out at first hand how authorities are tackling the issue and what they need form the centre . |
| 30 | It is not advisable to give the dog free run of the car , however , simply because it could damage the interior , by scratching the upholstery , for example , if it wants to come out at first light before you are awake . |