Example sentences of "[vb -s] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beatle Paul McCartney 's wife , LINDA McCARTNEY , holds 38th slot with £39.2 million , most of it stemming from an inheritance from the Eastman/Kodak fortune . |
| 2 | Finally , he claims that TransTools holds second or third position in the Spanish market behind Oracle and Informix , with the impact of Sybase Corp and Ingres Corp being relatively muted . |
| 3 | US Copyright Office holds second hearing to gather opinions over droit de suite |
| 4 | Later he has second thoughts . |
| 5 | For reasons Griffin & Sabine ( Macmillan , £12.99 ) can not fathom , she has second sight . |
| 6 | UNIX INTERNATIONAL HAS SECOND EARLY ACCESS VERSION OF SVR4 ES/MP |
| 7 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 8 | He is justly recognised by the American Philosophical Society , in whose annals his name stands second only to that of Benjamin Franklin . |
| 9 | Indeed one characteristic of British democracy is that the country is normally ruled by the party that lies second or third in the opinion polls ( if we take averages over all months since polls began , giving each month equal weight ) . |
| 10 | Sam currently lies 33rd with 41,247 points whereas Montgomerie already has over 220,000 to his name . |
| 11 | For d'Indy , though , the two-part texture was evidently too thin : he adds second violins and violas , mainly on the off-beats , creating a jolly but anachronistic oom-pah effect . |
| 12 | Starts 30th August Cash or credit . |
| 13 | The Scot was dumped 5-2 by 26-year-old Dave Harold from Stoke , who stands 93rd in the world rankings . |
| 14 | The 31-year-old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . |
| 15 | Election fever grips sixth form |
| 16 | Biasion won the first three of the morning 's special stages but then lost valuable seconds when he spun and lies fourth overall , two minutes behind Fiorio . |
| 17 | Also there Trish Johnson , five under par for her and Lisa Hackney from Staffordshire lies fourth , she 's four under . |
| 18 | Crawford 's character finishes eighth but , having overtaxed himself , he then collapses on the track . |
| 19 | Alan , who learnt the art of trial biking at his family home in the hilly countryside of Morar , now holds fifth position in the Scottish Trial Championship . |
| 20 | In the Latin , ‘ the Word of God ’ stands first , as object of the Church 's listening and then proclamation . |
| 21 | However , at a more basic level it was also influenced by research which examined the nature of the problem of caring for dementia sufferers at home ; this section , therefore , looks first at the problems of care , and then at other innovative projects . |
| 22 | It looks first at market demand . |
| 23 | Hard disks can be huge , so DOS does n't search the whole thing for a matching name ; instead it looks first in the current directory and then in the subdirectories which are specified in the PATH command . |
| 24 | She looks first at how the present conceptions and practices of philosophy might admit of different points of view at all . |
| 25 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 26 | The present paper looks first at the general context of the discussions within Ashdown School and then outlines some of the issues that emerged from the research . |
| 27 | Tod looks first at the face ; then the breasts ; then the lower abdomen . |
| 28 | If a retailer wants to find out the value of sales for each metre of shelf space in a shop , he needs first to find out what the TOTAL shelf measurement is , by measuring each shelf and adding the lengths together . |
| 29 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 30 | What Cohen calls the ‘ new subcultural theory ’ needs first putting in a wider context . |