Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theodosiou was the first to go for stamping in the 72nd minute and Greg Downs followed after protesting at a penalty decision . |
| 2 | And , of course , the payment of dividend itself re-instates the 40% tax rate and defeats the tax motive for incorporating in the first place . |
| 3 | After struggling in the first half when playing into the wind , they made certain later ; then came the news that Newcastle Gosforth 's defeat at Bedford had given West Hartlepool promotion . |
| 4 | Jobs : The rate at which smaller firms are shedding jobs has increased , after declining in the last five surveys , with a balance of 20pc more manufacturers reporting a fall than an increase . |
| 5 | They also said that maybe Strandli will push Wallace for the first team place after scoring in the last 2 reserve matches . |
| 6 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 7 | People who give up cigarettes very commonly report explicit ( and guilty ) dreams about smoking in the first few weeks , even though there is every reason to believe that sleep actually becomes less disturbed on withdrawal from nicotine . |
| 8 | Even the quest for fire , an element of nature taken for granted in the twentieth century , Whitaker felt could be held up as an artifact of wonder through the medium of Doctor Who . |
| 9 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 10 | There are two reasons for this : first , it provides a complete and convincing display of the art of drawing in the second half of the fifteenth century , with outstanding exhibits lent by major collections worldwide . |
| 11 | The likelihood of dying in the first year is increased by no more than twofold . |
| 12 | A big quake east of the Rocky Mountains — and one greater than magnitude 6 has a 50 to 60 per cent chance of occurring in the next 25 years — could make California 's Loma Prieta seem trifling . |
| 13 | Because the pattern of trading in the first year of the market was so confined by technical and political constraints it would be unsafe to generalise from it . |
| 14 | He can not possibly have played better despite tiring in the second half of a patchy but exciting final . |
| 15 | about , by the time you 've read this another twenty two children would of died in the third world , aargh |
| 16 | The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 18 | DARLINGTON 'S hopes of remaining in the Third Division were dealt a severe blow in London last night when they crashed to their eleventh away defeat of the season . |
| 19 | ( We will talk more about the role of visualizing in the next section . ) |
| 20 | The invention of printing in the fifteenth century steadily did away with the need for handwritten books , and it is interesting to note that from that time onwards various styles of calligraphy developed for different purposes . |
| 21 | The invention of printing in the 16th century had resulted in a rapid spread of literacy . |
| 22 | The report starts by reviewing the pattern of spending in the first two years of the fund . |
| 23 | First , we aim to set out what has happened to the total level of spending in the last 12 years . |
| 24 | He could link both with a talent for seeing the future and the past from a sideways , yet very humanly understandable , perspective in short , bringing out the magic of travelling in the fourth dimension to the audience sitting at home . |
| 25 | BBC1 accounted for almost 39pc of viewing in the last quarter of 1990 , but that figure had dropped to 34pc a year later . |
| 26 | They would n't of gone in the first place . |
| 27 | If you only want the bloody music , whe I , what 's the point of taping in the first place ! |
| 28 | " The results suggest , however , that a significant part of warming in the last century is not greenhouse-related " , he commented . |
| 29 | The unfortunate animal in question is incarcerated in a closed box which also contains a radioactive atom with a 50-50 chance of decaying in the next hour , emitting a y-ray in the process . |
| 30 | However , like the paternalistic approach to the working class of the Peabody Trust and the Octavia Hill system of housing in the nineteenth century , which attempted to train tenants in the virtues of punctual payment and thrift by enforcing a ban on arrears , the housing benefit simply seeks to make people pay their rent by paying if for them . |