Example sentences of "[verb] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this was considered unlikely to succeed because , of US opposition , a European and dependencies system was considered second best . |
| 2 | Mr has also asked me whether it is true that if I ca n't get what I want second best will do . |
| 3 | UNIX INTERNATIONAL HAS SECOND EARLY ACCESS VERSION OF SVR4 ES/MP |
| 4 | ‘ Among the eight occupational groups in the civil service pay-scale , academics rank second highest , after state-organ officials ’ ( Chan 1989 : 71 ) . |
| 5 | Whats more , the scum were voted 6th best team in the world ! ! ! |
| 6 | Place first five ingredients in a medium pan . |
| 7 | A long struggle by writers to establish first domestic and then international copyright resulted not only in a new concept of literary property but new , or at least amended , social relationships of writers . |
| 8 | Both hulls were flooded , the water driving backwards and forwards across the saloon deck as the waves lifted first one hull , then the other . |
| 9 | Philips Electronics NV has reported first net profit down 36.4% at the equivalent of $58.3m on turnover that fell 2.2% to $7,780m . |
| 10 | See first er , line of er is the set prayer , then we go add to that er , say first full hymn is our morning , what , what we call The first line we would call the basic er say route of the er magics , that 's the magic , which erm , er which erm con controls the er eternal er power . |
| 11 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 12 | Back in 1972 , he and Camilla Shand found first real love . |
| 13 | We never ever distil ether without checking first that it does n't contain incompoundable peroxides , organic peroxides which contain this and single bond cos things explode ! |
| 14 | ADDS FIRST DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT |
| 15 | As in religious autobiographies of ‘ confessions ’ ( St Augustine is relevant here ) the poet is steadily driven to despair as one by one the hopes and promises of his early ‘ vocation ’ are withdrawn ; the restoration of his imaginative powers is the subject of the final books of the poem , and the new placing of the ‘ spots of time ’ passage now offers an explanation of this recovery , besides connecting the end of the poem with the ‘ childhood ’ scenes of the now almost forgotten first two books . |
| 16 | UK civil service holds first joint environmental meeting |
| 17 | READY SYSTEMS HAS FIRST PORTABLE REAL-TIME OPERATING ENVIRONMENT … |
| 18 | This covers first half 1990 , second half 1990 , first half 1991 , second half 1991 and first half 1992 , and analyses the main p&l account items over these periods . |
| 19 | Suppose , for example , a text ( such as the Bestiary : thirteenth century , East Anglia ) exhibits 3rd singular verb-form variation in -es , -ep ( such as standes , standep ) and syncopated forms ( such as stant ) : this may indicate that the text is composite and has been copied by scribes from different dialect areas ( for discussions of these scribal questions , see especially McIntosh , Samuels and Benskin , 1986 ; Laing , 1989 ; McIntosh and Wakelin , 1989 ) . |
| 20 | The group was voted ninth best new act of 1986 in the NME readers poll published in early 1987 , just behind The Pet Shop Boys and Half Man Half Biscuit . |
| 21 | In Section 3.7 we regarded third normal form as the end of the normalisation process and this is usually satisfactory . |
| 22 | More important even than Humpty Dumpty for understanding last hundred years , he wrote . |
| 23 | The new drum corps of McNeillstown scored their first success of the season by winning best drums with the band gaining third overall placing . |
| 24 | With Arsenal and Liverpoolthe next 2 games lets keep our fingers crossed . |
| 25 | Before we examine the 21 May Definition Order in detail , we must therefore summarise what can be discovered as to what made 1st Ukrainian Division , of all the formations originally surrendered to 5 Corps , a special case . |
| 26 | So everyone is unhappy and , what is worse still , the children are being brought up to believe that the old should always be given second best and be prepared to shrink into the smallest ‘ shell ’ that is offered to them . |
| 27 | In the first major on this year 's US women 's tour , with prize money of 700,000 ( £500,000 ) , Wright and Johnson both shot second round scores of 68 , four under-par , for a 142 total . |
| 28 | AMSTRAD APPOINT SECOND NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
| 29 | Order effects strategy involved the effect of the position of each adjective in the list to the impression formed ; ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ , ‘ when the list ended with several good qualities this tended to affect any answer since they remained more prominent in my mind ’ , and ‘ tended to remember first 3 adjectives better than last 3 ’ . |
| 30 | Attention decrement can be compared to the order effect in cases where subjects ‘ hold on ’ to initial words and do n't pay attention to later words — ; ‘ tended to remember first 3 adjectives better than last 3 ’ . |