Example sentences of "[adv] in [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average sentence lengths of the two passages are fifty-seven words for Conrad , and only twenty for Lawrence & ) ; in Conrad the ratio of independent clauses to dependent clauses is 1:2.8 , and in Lawrence 1:1 ( 46 ) Lawrence , then uses much simpler sentences than Conrad , especially in his third paragraph . |
| 2 | Such a ban on Hateley would debar him from the European Cup final in May , should Rangers overcome Marseille and then do well enough in their last Group A match , against CSKA Moscow at Ibrox . |
| 3 | Whether or not he could hear much of what she said , she did not know , but her heart was saddened that he should be here alone in his last hours . |
| 4 | Although it is only in its second season , the garden looks mature , overflowing with over 50 herbs arranged in four beds , complete with a central bird bath . |
| 5 | Pickerage is only in his second year . |
| 6 | Only in his last interruption ( p. 56 ) is Anderson actually impolite and this reflects his priorities in terms of conversational goals . |
| 7 | When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him . |
| 8 | At the time of going to Budapest I was still only in my second month of strict diet and had another five weeks left . |
| 9 | It was only in my third year that I really felt happy there . |
| 10 | Andrew 's job as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot , based in Somerset , meant they spent just 100 days together in their first year and it was a parting that Fergie felt particularly keenly . |
| 11 | I want to ask you only one question : do you want to stay together in your next life , or never meet again ? ’ |
| 12 | The Daily Mail sold well over 200,000 copies daily in its first years and reached half-a-million sales after three years . |
| 13 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Middlesbrough will be at home to Edinburgh Monarchs tonight in their first Gold Cup fixture of the season . |
| 15 | Everything Oxfam does is funded by public donation , and tonight in our fourth report from South America we look at projects in Bolivia , one of the continent 's poorest countries where farmers have been hard-hit by drought and recession … |
| 16 | Students taking French as a minor subject are expected to spend four to six weeks in a French-speaking country , normally in their second year . |
| 17 | The Policy Advisory Committee strongly advised that 13 should remain the age limit on the ground that girls of 12 are at a vulnerable stage of their lives , in particular because they are usually in their first year at a senior school and there is a risk that they will imitate the behaviour , including the sexual ways , of older girls . |
| 18 | At the moment , sad to say that physical vertical is the most effective means of slowing people down and and narrowings and visual erm signs and that kind of thing , road markings , do not have the same effect er but we are working on that and hopefully in our next batch of schemes we will start to experiment with things like speed cushions and what have you which , which have a lesser effect on , on erm on both minibuses and buses . |
| 19 | I delighted to know that the Medau Society is flourishing and going more strongly than ever in its fortieth year . |
| 20 | IRELAND beat the Scottish Under-21 ladies ' team 3-2 at Blaris yesterday in their first match of the season in preparation for next year 's World Cup . |
| 21 | I had a feeling he would tell the cast of his next film , ‘ I had Kenny More in my last film . ’ |
| 22 | At the moment everybody is eagerly awaiting Crest 's Late Night Show from Crest ( of course ! ) , a group which has pushed C64 to its ultimate limits , only to go even further in their next demo ! |
| 23 | A small international centre for educational evaluation at Ibadan has been set up ( and will be described further in my next chapter ) and another on child development is being planned in Nairobi . |
| 24 | About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror . |
| 25 | Early in her first premiership it caused her a moment of acute embarrassment . |
| 26 | Wilson , unlike Carter , sufficiently over-came his lack of sympathy with the system to compile an impressive record of legislative achievement early in his first term . |
| 27 | Early in my first tour I argued with my colleagues that I doubted it would be possible to ditch a Wimpy or a Whitley on water , particularly if there was a heavy swell . |
| 28 | As yet , OmniPoint is still in its first release , with OmniPoint 2 set for the end of 1994 . |
| 29 | Johnson 's cold , still in its first phase — three days coming , three days staying , three days going — was getting worse . |
| 30 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |