Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first point is that , of the five people generally named in any discussion of the generation gap theory , four are Free Presbyterians , which is a similar concentration to that found in the first generation of Paisley activists . |
| 2 | The age distribution of known opioid users was similar to that found in the first survey , with 69 per cent being aged between 16 and 24 years ( compared to 75 per cent in 1984–5 ) . |
| 3 | When this occurred in the first organisms on earth , evolution began , for such mistakes in copying are the source of variations from which natural selection can produce evolutionary change . |
| 4 | Already in the 1950s the core was losing heavily , and this worsened in the next decade . |
| 5 | The judge in the later case finds some relevant fact in that case of sufficient importance to justify a different approach from that adopted in the first decision . |
| 6 | ‘ The Collector ’ is arranged in three parts , each told in the first person by Clegg , Miranda , then Clegg again . |
| 7 | The second came in the last minute of normal time and followed an impressive maul , in which Boro drove over the line but could n't get the ball down . |
| 8 | The 100 came in the 28th over , and for those who wondered how England could be doing so well after Pakistan 's moderate success , the answer lay as much in England 's two disciplined straight bats as in the departed cloud cover . |
| 9 | But the inevitable happened in the 76th minute . |
| 10 | If the purposes of the director 's occupation are as set out in the query , then the case should be resisted strongly , based on the five points stated , and also , particularly , on the basis of the phrase in ss 145 and 146 quoted in the second paragraph of this reply . |
| 11 | Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late . |
| 12 | The album is preceded by the single ‘ Rain ’ , with a demonic American preacher , a Gambian thunderstorm and the bells of Oxford 's Merton college all segued in the first 20 seconds . |
| 13 | There must have been a tacit appreciation among many potential benefactors at the end of the thirteenth century that there were already too many religious houses : whereas over seven hundred new houses had been founded in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , just over sixty followed in the next century and most of those were friaries . |
| 14 | I expect they all went in the Second World War . |
| 15 | Twenty-seven of those came in the first match , against Pontypridd ; Bedford took a similar caning and Coventry only four points less . |
| 16 | Witt , a big-serving 6ft 3ins American , produced a disastrous 12 double faults in the match but most of those came in the first set and a half when Wilkinson could hardly put a foot wrong . |
| 17 | The sixth came in the 74th minute with Rush pouncing to punish Christophi again after he had failed to hold another Jamie Redknapp shot . |
| 18 | In order to distinguish the conditioned response ( CR ) of the test stage from that acquired in the first stage of discrimination training , the nature of the reinforcer was changed , from appetitive to aversive . |
| 19 | In this small group of tales he first described in the third person how a murder had happened and then in the voice of his " Watson " narrated the activities of his sleuth , Dr Thorndyke , the scientist , in bringing the murderer to book . |
| 20 | The Jeep Wranglers receiving so much stick last week were the direct descendants of the vehicle which first surfaced in the Second World War when Ford mass produced the Jeep ( GP from General Purpose ) runabouts to take the invading allies to Berlin just as fast as the film crews could follow the generals . |
| 21 | Yeovil 's first came in the 31st minute when Paul Wilson scored with a low diving header . |
| 22 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 23 | The company first emerged in the Second World War , supplying electrical components for the RAF , and much of its advanced scientific work for the Ministry of Defence in ‘ Electronic Systems ’ remained ( like that of very many Defence suppliers ) in the South , co-ordinated from national headquarters in Ilford ( Greater London ) . |
| 24 | Solicitors first appeared in the fifteenth century . |
| 25 | They first appeared in the seventeenth century and ceased to be built after the middle of the nineteenth century , when the advent of portable threshing machines meant that ricks could be built and threshed in the fields and field barns were no longer needed . |
| 26 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |
| 27 | Mortality rates at this and similar institutions were astonishingly high : only 4,400 of the 15,000 admitted in the first four years lived to adolescence . |
| 28 | Setback number two came in the 70th minute when Stewart Renton ( Barrhead ) broke a leg in a collision with the Dundee goalkeeper . |
| 29 | In spite of the recession , reduced profits from property sales and a 50 per cent rise in interest charges to £3.5 million profit before exceptionals was down only 9 per cent to £22.1 million , of which £11.8 million came in the first half . |
| 30 | Although the overall extent of civilian casualties remained unclear , Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Hammadi suggested during his visit to Tehran in mid-February [ see above ] that more than 20,000 of his compatriots had been killed and 60,000 wounded in the first 26 days of the war . |