Example sentences of "[vb past] a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of multinational corporations provided a second spur to Eurocurrency business . |
| 2 | At 29 , the head Raider does not appear to accept that his best years are behind him , bad news perhaps for Jonathan Davies , for whom the press conference provided a first glimpse of a man whose reputation travels before him . |
| 3 | When Quest for Fame won the Derby and Sanglemore won the French Derby , it provided a first season trainer with a rare double , who was that trainer ? |
| 4 | When Quest for Fame won the Derby and Sanglemore won the French Derby , it provided a first season trainer with a rare double , who was the trainer ? |
| 5 | Nick , let's put to you the three questions ; when Quest for Fame won the Derby and Sanglemore won the French Derby , it provided a first season trainer with a rare double — who was that trainer ? |
| 6 | This provided a third source of information for BRAC on the effectiveness of its programme . |
| 7 | Tenacious and long-memoried , they had not allowed themselves to be uprooted or changed a second time . |
| 8 | In Zborowski 's apartment in Nice , Modigliani drew a second portrait of Germaine , very similar , only this time she was wearing a black dress . |
| 9 | Lemert ( 1967 ) proposed a second component to the ‘ amplification spiral ’ — what he called ‘ secondary deviance ’ : a consequence of being officially labelled ‘ deviant ’ is that other people come to regard the labelled person differently , as a different kind of person . |
| 10 | During talks in Moscow in February 1986 the Iranian Foreign Minister proposed a second conference on Afghanistan , independent of the Geneva conference , which would be attended by Iran , Pakistan , the Soviet Union and the Afghan mujahidin . |
| 11 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |
| 12 | Then , remembering her damaged thumb , she went back and examined the top rail , exclaiming aloud in excitement as she found a second thread clinging to the rough wood . |
| 13 | When police raided his house , they found a fifteenth century Bastiano which he 'd stolen from a gallery in Venice last week . |
| 14 | Connelly was about to push the door when it was opened from the inside and he found a third man there . |
| 15 | In some places metal sinks and is covered over so quickly that even Victorian losses can be out of range ; at the other end of the scale I found a 14th century key in a wood , that came up from a depth of only 2 inches . |
| 16 | On third Reading , he moved a second amendment to make racially discriminatory behaviour by the police a specific disciplinary offence . |
| 17 | He conscientiously pinched the opposite fold of her sweet vulva , and fastened a second peg to her . |
| 18 | AT&T reported a first quarter net loss of $5,641m after a $7,020m charge for the accounting change on post-retirement benefits , and a gain of $383 for a tax accounting change , against a profit last time of $883m on turnover up 2.2% at $15,719m . |
| 19 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices . |
| 20 | Proteon Inc reported a first quarter net loss of $2.7m after a $1.7m restructuring charge and a gain of $450,000 from an accounting change , against $1.8m profit last time , on sales up 5.6% at $27.7m . |
| 21 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge — figures , page seven — said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices ; it also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field ; it is also enhancing our Huron applications development and production system , which creates applications that run without change in both proprietary and open environments and on both large and desktop systems , the company added , saying that its objective is to turn Huron into an industry standard and to develop a growing business in open systems for large-scale computing . |
| 22 | Pilkington reported a first half profit before tax of £15.1m ( v £50.6m ) . |
| 23 | Argyll Group reported a first half profit before tax of £205m ( v £178m ) . |
| 24 | National Home Loans reported a first half loss before tax of £85.9m ( v £10m profit ) ; there will be no dividend . |
| 25 | Royal Insurance reported a first half loss before tax of £79m ( v £97m ) ; its dividend was reduced from 11.25p to 2p . |
| 26 | Taylor Woodrow reported a first half loss before tax of £16m ( v £25.3m profit ) ; its dividend has been cut from 1.86p to 0.5p . |
| 27 | The company reported a first half loss before tax of £8.8m ( v £2.4m ) . |
| 28 | WordStar International Inc reported a third quarter net loss of $10.2m against $25,000 profit last time on sales that slumped 56.8% at $5.9m ; net loss for the nine months was $19.5m , up from a loss last time of $4.8m , on sales that fell 40.5% at $23.2m . |
| 29 | Advanced Logic Research Inc reported a third quarter net loss of $1.3m , against a $933,000 profit last time , on sales down 22.2% to $43.9m ; net loss for the nine months was $2.2m against a $1.4m profit last time on sales that slumped 18.3% at $86.3m . |
| 30 | The company reported a fourth quarter net loss of $1,855m , up from a loss last time of $871.3m , after restructuring charges of $1,500m this time , $1,100m last , on turnover down 1.0% at $3,905.8m . |