Example sentences of "[vb -s] in the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spennymoor super heavyweight forced the referee to step in after Hopper had pounded the more fancied Craig Parsons of Brighton into three standing counts in the second round . |
| 2 | The origin of a different approach lies in the mid-nineteenth century in Lumley v. Gye . |
| 3 | This is the anti-socialist , specifically anti-Marxist bent of the elitist theory as it unfolds in the last decade of the nineteenth century ’ ( Meisel , 1958 , p. 10 ) . |
| 4 | It ships in the third quarter . |
| 5 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 6 | The conflict develops in the second part where it reaches a climax : in Giselle a death , in Romeo and Juliet several deaths . |
| 7 | You do n't need a theological background to see there is a difference between the way that Paul writes in the first part of chapter 15 and in the second . |
| 8 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 9 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
| 10 | He writes in the last paragraph , ‘ It should be borne in mind that for the creation of a climatic regime managed by man , further progress of science and engineering is necessary which would permit a considerable increase in the present production of energy . |
| 11 | A few examples have been found made from silver , which was a metal commonly used for finger rings in the 1st century AD . |
| 12 | The Jordan tributary , who lives in the next constituency , is called Rix . |
| 13 | Several weeks later I was talking to a friend who lives in the next town . |
| 14 | The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft . |
| 15 | Flowering usually starts in the second year , with one flower head — the edible part — at the end of each shoot . |
| 16 | Work on the production line starts in the next couple of days with the sales of the Vauxhall Cavalier and Opel Vextra containing the engine expected next spring . |
| 17 | In the pipeline is Silver and Gold , a Tom O'Connor-hosted games show , and a new drama series , devised by Border 's chairman Melvyn Bragg , about English/Scottish border bandits in the 16th century . |
| 18 | Language exercises in the second part are based on the film and commentary , with particular attention to the formation and use of tenses . |
| 19 | The Ionian cities were however less prosperous as a result of choosing Athens not Persia ; monumental building there declines in the fifth century . |
| 20 | Romanticism — the dream of the redemptive love that will bring heaven-on-earth , resolve all difference , end alienation — has in the twentieth century replaced religion as the opium of the people . |
| 21 | Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity . |
| 22 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
| 23 | The concept of four major glacial events , based on classic studies in the European Alps ( Penck and Brückner , 1909 ) and supported by observations in Scandinavia , North America and Siberia , has in the last decade been shown to be an oversimplification . |
| 24 | For a start , there 's a whole team of people who work to make sure it happens in the first place . |
| 25 | This happens in the First World as well as in the Third World . |
| 26 | As so often happens in the last years , his remaining family and oldest friends became of most importance to him . |
| 27 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 28 | In addition , there are seminars on various research issues , and a research workshop which meets in the third term . |
| 29 | Deep slow wave sleep ( Stages 3 and 4 ) predominates in the first half of the night . |
| 30 | Owner of several Felixes himself , he plans in the next year or two to publish the player 's illustrated scrapbooks for the 1851 and 1852 seasons : ‘ They were intended for publication and are a remarkable social document , ’ he says . |