Example sentences of "is in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Callinicos ' defence of classical Marxism , of historical materialism , is in the first instance deployed against a postmodernism which has come to proclaim the death of the grand narrative of emancipation and the need for a new form of politics not constructed along the lines of the traditional left . |
| 2 | ‘ The Association is not a universal provider … its mission … is in the first place to the educationally underprivileged … it must include a substantial body of work sufficiently intensive and prolonged to exercise a permanent influence on students . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My office is in the first sleeping car aft of the central dining car . ’ |
| 4 | The idea that femininity is in the first place to be associated with motherhood is simply writ large . |
| 5 | Descartes ' dreaming argument is in the first of his Meditations ; use the Haldane and Ross edition ( Descartes , 1955 ) or any reputable alternative . |
| 6 | When the node is in the first layer , then xj is sj . |
| 7 | ‘ He is in the first penitentiary cell , close to the passage to the infirmary , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 8 | The interrelations of the meanings and associations of words within a text ( ‘ the dimension of coherence ’ ) is in the first place , one' might say , a purely mental event , but its effect is to modify , enrich or enlarge the reader 's experience of the realities to which these meanings and associations refer . |
| 9 | This country is in the first rank of the European Community and will remain so . |
| 10 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 11 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 12 | It is in the first place striking that in the Old French fabliaux , a male rival or spoiler is more commonly the butt of the humour than a female , though examples of the latter situation are reasonably numerous . |
| 13 | just to point out to members that the promised report on the lorry management plan which is in the first preparation has been put back to the January committee meeting on the Highways Committee so that we can get full advantage from the traffic and |
| 14 | Today , this Greek Cypriot author is in the eleventh day of a hunger strike . |
| 15 | It is in the second half , when Helena becomes a quasi-symbolic force for life and renewal that Patricia Kerrigan 's performance comes into its own . |
| 16 | The earliest they can play England or Holland is in the second phase . |
| 17 | Hunter can not play for the Saints but Bayfield is in the second row . |
| 18 | If your elderly parent is in the second category , this event always provides a valuable opportunity for the family to make every kind of affectionate and celebratory gesture that says , ‘ We 're glad you 're still around ’ . |
| 19 | Divorty is in the second row in place of injured Australian Mike McLean , with another ex-Leeds man , Gary Lord , at loose forward . |
| 20 | Top prop Andy Platt is in the second row and Billy McGinty , who missed last week 's match at Halifax with a leg injury , is on the bench with Neil Cowie . |
| 21 | O'Leary is in the second year of a leisure management course at West London Institute where he says he is adjusting to minor celebrity status . |
| 22 | This is unfortunate , because much of the phylogenetically informative sequence information is in the second half ( 3' end ) of the 16S rDNA gene . |
| 23 | It is in the second part of the book that Yockey extends this theory to problems in molecular biology . |
| 24 | Left : This Welsh dresser is in the second kitchen , which used to be Elizabeth Jane 's nursery when she was a child . |
| 25 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 26 | We assume that the node is in the second form , so its threshold is 0 . |
| 27 | In the example shown in Fig. 7.15(a) , record 112 is in the second block . |
| 28 | ‘ Your grandmother is in the second cart . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Forgive me , my lord , but the matter I am referring to is in the second file . |
| 30 | The president is my grandfather Walter , with my grandmother to his right , his daughter Eileen is in the second row fourth from the right . |