Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | The likelihood of dying in the first year is increased by no more than twofold . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He can not possibly have played better despite tiring in the second half of a patchy but exciting final . |
| 13 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( We will talk more about the role of visualizing in the next section . ) |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The invention of printing in the 16th century had resulted in a rapid spread of literacy . |
| 18 | The report starts by reviewing the pattern of spending in the first two years of the fund . |
| 19 | First , we aim to set out what has happened to the total level of spending in the last 12 years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | BBC1 accounted for almost 39pc of viewing in the last quarter of 1990 , but that figure had dropped to 34pc a year later . |
| 22 | If you only want the bloody music , whe I , what 's the point of taping in the first place ! |
| 23 | " The results suggest , however , that a significant part of warming in the last century is not greenhouse-related " , he commented . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He could have given us a picture of Halling in the 16th century , but we will come to that later when investigating his own life here at Halling . |
| 27 | In Ireland the prospect of playing in the second World Cup brought the arm-wrestling contest between the powerful Irish Universities and the students union to an end . |
| 28 | Alex Ferguson , United 's manager , regards Robson 's presence in four of his team 's remaining six League matches as a realistic target and the captain is confident of playing in the first of them , at home to Southampton on Thursday . |
| 29 | ‘ But I wo n't know how bad the damage is until I see the physio tomorrow , and then I may have an idea if I have a chance of playing in the first league game . ’ |
| 30 | With the considerable degree of replanting in the last few centuries it is possible that the Weald now exhibits a more wooded aspect than at any time since the early medieval period . |