Example sentences of "[noun] in [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , he read arts in his first year ; commerce ( which included accounting , commercial law , political science and a couple of doses of mathematics ) in his second ; arts ( though strangely retaining political science ) for his third and fourth years , to which was added zoology . |
| 2 | The Board gave indications of its thinking in its first Report to the Lord Chancellor and in a consultation paper issued in May 1989 . |
| 3 | FIERY actress Tatum O'Neal is to star as a killer in her first TV series since splitting with tennis ace John McEnroe . |
| 4 | It was not the UN 's fault that heavily armed SWAPO guerrillas violated the Namibian peace deal in its first hours by crossing the border into the territory ( see page 75 ) . |
| 5 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 6 | He wants a world beater in his side so how about Nigel Mansell as a driving force in his next squad . |
| 7 | Indonesia In its second year the Southern Sumatra Geological and Mineral Exploration Project continued the bilateral technical cooperation programme between the Directorate of Mineral Resources ( DMR ) , the Geological Research and Development Centre ( GRDC ) of the Directorate General of Geology and Mineral Resources of Indonesia , and the British Geological Survey . |
| 8 | THE Premier League is offering a staggering £9 million to clubs in success-related bonuses in its first season . |
| 9 | Indeed , Hartland and Wright almost carried New Zealand to stumps without loss in their second innings , and probably would have done so but for a debatable bat-pad decision against the former . |
| 10 | Middlesex forfeited their first innings and Durham were 11 without loss in their second innings when bad light ended play . |
| 11 | However , SGI expects to make a loss in its second quarter results absorbing a $90m-$110m charge from its acquisition . |
| 12 | Incidentally , I have used projection television receivers at home for the last 40 years and , possibly their use does not require the eye to be concentrated in one continuous subtended angle , my in eyes in their fourth quarter century still resolve that one minute of arc ! |
| 13 | All the unmistakable signs of defeat greeted Petain 's eyes in his first glimpse of the men he was to command . |
| 14 | But Keith Fletcher , nursing a 2-0 defeat in his first Test series as England manager , was at pains to point out one of the root causes of the problems faced by Gooch 's side : the lack of dry , turning pitches in the County Championship . |
| 15 | ANDRE AGASSI last night insisted that he was determined to defend his Wimbledon title next week despite a heavy defeat in his first match for two months in the Halle grass court tournament in Munich . |
| 16 | Jonathan Speelman must avoid defeat in his seventh game against Jan Timman to stay in the match . |
| 17 | The eyes of a killer … and the eyes , masked by heavy Health Service spectacles , of a spinster in her 81st year . |
| 18 | Buchan scored 21 goals in his first season , giving Sunderland another £2,100 under the transfer terms , £100 more than they had originally asked for . |
| 19 | In his first season at Upton Park , he became the uncrowned King of the East End , scoring 28 goals in his first season and setting up an unrivalled scoring partnership with Tony Cottee . |
| 20 | Fortunately the Palace directors put a prohibitive price upon his transfer , and he stayed with the club , set up a new goal-scoring record of 36 league goals in his first season ( from just 34 appearances ) , topped the Division 3(S) charts for that campaign and his output was only exceeded by two men in the entire Football League . |
| 21 | ‘ I scored 24 goals in my first season with Portsmouth , 20 in my second , but only 13 last year , ’ explained Whittingham , 28 , himself a former physical training instructor as an Army corporal . |
| 22 | The 16-year-old Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harrier , who strained knee ligaments in her first race of the season two months ago , won her specialist event , the intermediate 300 metres hurdles , in convincing fashion , clipping nearly a second-and-a-half off the three-year-old record and finishing 30 metres clear of her nearest rival in 47.2 secs . |
| 23 | The membership of the ‘ political cliques ’ that assisted the entrepreneurs in running the Mexican Border Industrialization Programme in its first decade is described as : |
| 24 | An Indonesian collaborative programme in its eighth year continued to support local government finance training at the University of Indonesia . |
| 25 | Then Nottingham learned that Rugby had indeed beaten Harlequins so now the Beeston club have to draw or win at Orrell in their last match on April 25 and Rugby have to lose at Leicester . |
| 26 | Argyle player-manager Shilton is looking to the fans to help his side in their last ditch bid for survival . |
| 27 | Candidates are required to complete a course in research methodology in their second year . |
| 28 | Billy joined the Palace staff in October 1923 as a 19-year-old from his local club , Prudhoe Castle in Northumberland , and saved a penalty against West Ham reserves in his first match for us . |
| 29 | It sold 850 units in its first year . |
| 30 | PageMaker shipped 30,000 units in its first year and has now become regarded as the benchmark for today 's competitors . |