Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a fourth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Members heard funding had been given for a fourth ear , nose and throat surgeon . |
2 | The centre of the circle is stabilised when it is occupied by a fourth dot . |
3 | Preventive action beyond the point of a child 's admission to care is seen as a fourth level of prevention . |
4 | The Dataflex relational database management system is written in a fourth generation language and has an IBM Corp SAA/CUA-compliant user interface , which enables users to write dBase applications . |
5 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |
6 | Border shared in a fourth wicket stand of 147 in 35 overs with Damien Martyn , who continued his impressive run . |
7 | A mixed population of ECL cells and cells resembling P cells by the granule size was observed in patient no 5 while very heterogeneous cellular proliferation with a prominent ECL cell component was found in a fourth case ( case no 1 ) . |
8 | A very small minority of students remained for a fourth year and , having successfully negotiated a third year examination hurdle , were candidates for an unclassified B.Ed degree of the University of Birmingham , and carried with them our hopes for a future graduate profession . |
9 | Peter Purton , an executive member of the lesbian and gay rights campaign , said now the idea of a common age of consent had been supported for a fourth time , he hope that the leadership would finally accept the commitment and ensure it went into the manifesto . |
10 | Having selected your sleeve / armhole type , a third menu appears for you to select your FRONT NECK type , followed by a fourth menu for the BACK NECK type ( see Fig 1 ) Should you wish to change any of the selections you have made , just press ESCAPE until you get back to the menu that you need to alter . |
11 | These were followed by a fourth sortie of around one hour ten minutes , involving a display . |
12 | They face another five years in opposition and Labour will have another inquest into why it has been rejected for a fourth time . |
13 | Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post . |
14 | It 's now fifteen months since the Tories were elected for a fourth term and what 've we seen since that election ? |
15 | Since a Conservative government has been elected for a fourth term these developments will probably continue . |
16 | Among the successful opposition candidates was Hitoshi Motoshima , who was narrowly elected to a fourth term as mayor of Nagasaki . |
17 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
18 | The three of them ran downstairs to the debtor 's room where they were joined by a fourth helper , Mrs Bangham , charwoman and messenger who volunteered her services as flycatcher and general attendant , and fanned the patient with a cabbage leaf throughout her delivery . |
19 | If by some mischance the Government are returned for a fourth term , I should be surprised if child benefit survives to the end of their term . |
20 | Pausanias goes on to talk of stories of Theseus 's end ; irrelevantly , it seems , but it has often been thought that the subject must have been suggested by a fourth mural which he does not specify . |