Example sentences of "[adj] in [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | another of our teams on the wrong end of the result this weekend … were Gloucester … they went and lost to London Scottish in their first league match of the season … the score eight-three |
| 2 | Language , Truth and Logic makes the ‘ no meaning ’ atheist position clear in its first chapter , ‘ The Elimination of Metaphysics ’ : |
| 3 | At home on the Isle of Wight , Becky is more interested in her 5th birthday coming up this Saturday . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're supposed to be interested in his first marriage and that 's more than thirty years ago , is n't it ? |
| 5 | And on the bowling side he admitted : ‘ Peter Such had a dream debut in helpful conditions in the first innings , but we then struggled to make inroads and our bowlers did not look penetrative in their second innings . |
| 6 | I see him as a sort of spiritual descendant of Norman Mailer , just as Mailer took on the mantle of Lawrence — in fact I wrote an essay on that very subject in my last term at school . |
| 7 | So , er , of all the things that we still have to do before erm , er , our proper external audit , this to me seems the most critical and if we do n't complete the task , it seems to me , in the next week or two , the likelihood of it being in place and auditable in our next trial is very limited . |
| 8 | Even if Shilton , inevitably cautious in his 41st year , is now most likely to be found out by teasing centres ( never mind the ‘ hand of God ’ , he should have been quicker , more positively to the ball than Diego Maradona in Mexico four years ago ) , his reliable and spectacular shot-stopping in Poland emphasised glaring inadequacies stemming from the grossly misguided philosophy that continues to gain ground in the Football League . |
| 9 | By 1740 he was one of his father 's workmen and , according to the French astronomer Joseph de Lalande , writing in 1763 , his father was so infirm in his last years that it was he , Jeremiah , who actually made the large mural quadrants for Bologna , Paris , Pisa , and George Parker , second Earl of Macclesfield [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | He was the man who held the drawstrings to the Shah 's own private fortune , amassed at home and abroad since the Shah had found himself penniless in his first exile in 1953 . |
| 11 | John Beaumont , who moved in 1550 from the Court of Wards to the Mastership of the Rolls , was as corrupt in his second post as he had been greedy in the first . |
| 12 | Cambridge University .... 28 Northampton .............. 4 THE Light Blues looked anything but lightweight in their first run-out of the season against supposedly senior opposition . |
| 13 | It is something of a red-letter day for Dwyer — his 51st international in his 51st year . |
| 14 | He was a crucial member of the 2nd Div championship side , and very good in our 1st yr back … |
| 15 | As he grows older he becomes more grotesque and therefore more frightening and effective in his second role . |
| 16 | Compuware 's turnover increased 30% to $62.2m last quarter , a growth rate it reckons continued in its fourth quarter . |
| 17 | However , neither a good physique , nor ballet or singing skills , would be particularly evident or useful in his next film role . |
| 18 | In exceptional circumstances , students with German or Spanish at ‘ O ’/GCSE; level may be accepted , but these students will be required to undertake additional classes in German or Spanish in their first year of study . |
| 19 | It may have been such a realisation ( along with the generally hostile reaction to the Framework document ) that encouraged the DES to be less specific in its second attempt at producing a framework for the curriculum ( almost a year after its first attempt ) . |
| 20 | And another not strong in its last years in the 1970's , ( it finished in 1981 ) , this section was in its day extremely successful and important to the well-being of the senior club . |
| 21 | The are range may run between thirteen and sixteen , but most girls are fifteen and have got pregnant in their fifth year at school . |
| 22 | Most goldfish and related fish are sexually mature in their second year , although adulthood is related more directly to size than age . |
| 23 | Ron Atkinson 's Sheffield Wednesday received a nasty shock away to Cambridge United in their fifth round tie , United going in front after eighteen minutes through Dublin , and Wednesday were to receive another rude shock seven minutes after the break when Philpot made it two nil . |
| 24 | Equally , his brace against Manchester United in our last match of 1990–91 ( co-incidentally also his own 150th Palace appearance ) demonstrated that he was on the verge of international recognition , with the second one , struck from fully 30 yards , bringing the big crowd to its feet in salute . |
| 25 | I hope to cover this in full in my next report . |
| 26 | Mr John Patten has been very busy in his first months as Secretary of State for Education . |
| 27 | On the basis of our initial fieldwork , we were able in our fifth report to group these under five main headings : |
| 28 | Bosch was also impressive in his first spell , when he must have been perilously close to having Simmons lbw . |
| 29 | And will that aircraft be less capable in its first flight than you 'd originally hoped ? |
| 30 | And will that aircraft be less capable in its first flight than you 'd originally hoped ? |