Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two women were in Kevin 's room , where Nellie had found her mother when she and Liam arrived in the cart after last Mass in Rosstrevor . |
| 2 | EC Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana rejected demands for further changes to EC legislation on dangerous substances when a draft directive was tabled for second reading in the European Parliament . |
| 3 | The Government 's proposals for second homes in Wales are wrong . |
| 4 | San Diego , at 7-5 , are tied with Denver Broncos for second place in the AFC West . |
| 5 | Airtours and Owners Abroad compete for second place in the holiday market behind Thomson . |
| 6 | The French managed three tries in all , but still had to settle for second place in the five nations championship ; the final score at Twickenham ; twenty one , nineteen . |
| 7 | Members of the National Display team will spend the weekend of 24th/26th May in Courbevoie , a suburb of Paris . |
| 8 | Birchwood 's Derrick Cooper picked up over £8,000 to move to 55th place in the Volvo Order of Merit when he shot 68–70–68–73 for a share of 15th place in the Dunhill Masters . |
| 9 | I do n't suppose you will remember me , but I was the winner of second prize in last year 's Wimpey News Photo Competition — a Spa Day at Ragdale Hall Health Hydro . |
| 10 | The traffic is steadily building up , both as a day trip or weekend outing , but also to cater for the increasing number of second homes in the north of France within easy motoring of the airport , whose car park is full of Jersey , Guernsey and GB-plated cars . |
| 11 | The phenomenon of second homes in rural areas has been quite widely researched , although there is debate as to their definition ( Dower 1977 ; Davies and O'Farrell 1981 ) and little agreement as to whether they constitute a ‘ curse or a blessing ’ ( Coppock 1977 ) . |
| 12 | The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition . |
| 13 | As noted earlier , estimates of the number of second homes in the United Kingdom indicate that about one-half of them are caravans or mobile homes . |
| 14 | In conclusion , it could be that the problems have been exaggerated , and indeed one study of second homes in the southwest of England , the second most important area after Wales , concluded ( South West Economic Planning Council , 1975 , vii ) that : ‘ second homes do not pose a problem that is widespread in the region nor are they likely to do so ’ . |
| 15 | I refer briefly to the question of second homes in Wales . |
| 16 | Stewart gave the car its first win at Zandvoort , and victories at the Nurburgring , by a staggering four minutes , and at Watkins Glen ensured him of second place in the championship to his former team-mate Hill . |
| 17 | Allan Roberts repeated his prevarication of 8th December in his summing-up speech for Labour at the conclusion of the 9th March 1988 Parliamentary debate . |
| 18 | So far , we have mostly considered the use of fourth chords in situations where only one vertical chord is built of perfect fourths superimposed , each note remaining in the same register . |
| 19 | Britain 's Paul Hoad earned a share of fourth place in the New Zealand Open in Paraparaumu yesterday . |
| 20 | NICK FALDO , world No 1 last week and with a highly creditable share of sixth place in the Freeport-McMoran Classic in New Orleans at the weekend , found his halo had slipped when he arrived at Augusta for the US Masters yesterday . |
| 21 | In March 1984 Mansur Rajih was tried before the Court of First Instance in Ta'iz for the murder of a man from his village . |
| 22 | The practice of appeal from ducal courts of first instance in the duchy to the Paris Parlement led ultimately to the formulation of the theory of independent Plantagenet sovereignty over Gascony . |
| 23 | Perhaps a third of first births in Victorian times were so conceived . |
| 24 | In 1971 47 per cent of first births in social class V , compared with 7 per cent in class I , were pre-maritally conceived . |
| 25 | This difference in the age at which women begin childbearing reflects both the later age at union and the greater frequency of deliberate postponement of first births in developed compared to less advanced countries . |
| 26 | Oxford , Durham , Cambridge , Newcastle and Edinburgh ( in that order ) publish high proportions of first papers in Nature , and these universities are also amongst the highest scoring in terms of productivity . |
| 27 | It is at first sight difficult to account for the anomalous position of Birmingham , which has a rather high productivity score , but whose proportion of first papers in the core journal set is low . |
| 28 | Oxford , Durham , Cambridge , Newcastle and Edinburgh ( in that order ) publish high proportions of first papers in Nature , and these universities are also amongst the highest scoring in terms of productivity . |
| 29 | This was the pattern of first railways in many parts of the world and it was to produce in Australia great complexities of gauge , rolling stock , and working systems . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , in view of the 30% incidence of restenosis with this technique , it should not be regarded as the revascularisation mode of first choice in cardiac arrest survivors . |