Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 2 | Although the ball might have been slipping down the leg side , Taylor was adjudged lbw by umpire Tony Crafter , who was officiated in his 33rd Test , breaking Bob Crockett 's previous Australian record . |
| 3 | Whilst the government claimed in its first consultation paper on the National Curriculum that it wished to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum for ‘ all pupils ’ , pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities were not specifically mentioned ( DES 1987 ) . |
| 4 | Colour had crept unsteadily on to It 's pages , and the paper reported in its second birthday issue that ‘ hopes of a permanent 24-page It have had to be tempered with reality otherwise we would find ourselves expanding into debt . ’ |
| 5 | Next weekend in Budapest , Attalli will tell the EBRD 's 45 members how this ambititious enterprise has fared in its first year of business . |
| 6 | Merulo , as one would expect of such a prolific instrumental composer , included in his second book of motets ( 1593 ) 7 per concerti e per cantare , and after his death were published two remarkable Masses , on Giaches de Wert 's madrigal ‘ Cara la vita mia ’ for two choirs and on Andrea Gabrieli 's ‘ Benedicam Dominum ’ itself a three-choir work — for three . |
| 7 | There is , moreover , a move towards the paying party 's seeing your file and this makes it increasingly important for you to think carefully about the costs and uplift information contained in your first letter or standard terms of business appended to your first letter , and also the standard of time recording on which your bills are based . |
| 8 | A short time before his death Harry Chapman had left his Hampshire rest home to stay at Herbert 's home in Oakwood , Leeds , and the care with which he was attended in his last days showed his elder brother 's family loyalty and devotion . |
| 9 | What had he done in his last incarnation to deserve it ? |
| 10 | I had been selected in my second year at Eton , while I was still a Lower boy , to box against the Eton Mission from Hackney Wick in the East End of London . |
| 11 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 12 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 13 | In his last memoirs , written in his second exile , he wrote that before 1953 , " I had been no more than a hereditary sovereign , but now I had truly been elected by the people . |
| 14 | A loose coupled freight hauled by Nos. 76028/29 was derailed at speed on this point ( featured in our first volume ) and the eastbound track was never reinstated . |
| 15 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 16 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 17 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 18 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 19 | Reagan 's capacity to learn from past mistakes and to make the adjustments necessary to achieve at least part of his declared purpose can be seen in his second term and in the passage of welfare reform legislation . |
| 20 | Yet to convince you that the claim I have made in my last paragraph is justifiable would require a full-length monograph at least as long as my Political Systems of Highland Burma which is itself a fair-sized and relevant monograph entirely devoted to the affairs of the Kachin . |
| 21 | What you 've said in your first paragraph is absolutely correct , stop . |
| 22 | His heart was buried in his first wife 's grave in Stinsford churchyard , beneath the tombstone he had himself designed to accommodate both their names . |
| 23 | It 's hard to keep your eyes away from documents people beside you are reading on the train , especially when they are X/Open Co Ltd internal memoranda : the one seen by a Unigram.X spy at Lewisham , South London last week promised in its first paragraph ‘ a 0% payrise ’ for unfortunate X/Open employees . |
| 24 | I mean , well if you have n't got gauze in your first aid box , but you could have something like a Mediwipe or you might be able to use , open up your bandage and you can use , you know , several pieces of this , just keep going down the bandage and then you know clean it and get rid of that bit , okay , another clean bit okay , so you can adapt with whatever you 've got in your first aid box , yes , and you wo n't necessarily have scissors to hand so you 'll have to do whatever you 've got and the little Mediwipes are very useful for that , but do n't use one Mediwipe for seventy five grazes , okay , one Mediwipe for one wipe and then discard , okay ? |
| 25 | Felix may have died in his seventeenth year or Thomas in his fifth . |
| 26 | Some of the original significance of the painting was , however , preserved in its first title , Le Bordel Philosophique , suggested in a spirit of humour by Salmon , Max Jacob and Apollinaire . |
| 27 | A pretty view of St Mark 's Cathedral by Sickert ( lot 16 , est. £30,000–40,000 ) , one of several versions dating from 1901 , was bought by Browse and Darby at the low estimate ( $45,900 ) , and Marlborough bought Stephen Conroy 's ‘ Kerngrove ’ ( lot 122 , est. £18,000–25,000 ) , a large figure painting shown in his first exhibition in 1989 , on behalf of a client . |
| 28 | First , how far the skills and experience acquired and used in your last job match up to those necessary to the new job , so that the transition will be relatively simple and there will not be too much disruption while you learn the ropes . |
| 29 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 30 | On the particular afternoon to which I am referring , his lordship would still have been in his mid-fifties ; but as I recall , his hair had greyed entirely and his tall slender figure already bore signs of the stoop that was to become so pronounced in his last years . |