Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The event was the second organised in Cleveland for RockWATCH , a national club for youngsters interested in fossils , rocks and dinosaurs . |
| 2 | The question about the first category was the same as the 1984 survey , but that about the second differed in that it was concerned with the use of agency workers in the previous month rather than the previous 12 months . |
| 3 | Being the second born in a poor family with thirteen brothers and sisters , you had to be tough to survive . |
| 4 | The generally accepted dates for these campaigns are 817/1414 and 818/1415 ; and it is likewise generally accepted that the second resulted in a much more decisive Ottoman success than the first . |
| 5 | They did ; the first was assassinated in 1437 , the second killed in battle in 1488 . |
| 6 | The two International Congresses of Writers for the Defence of Culture , the first held in Paris in July 1935 , the second held in Valencia , Madrid , Barcelona and Paris in July 1937 at the height of the Spanish Civil War , were simply the prolongation of collaborative cultural politics initiated at the Amsterdam Congress of 1932 . |
| 7 | The serial number of this bass , 72997058 , tells us that it was made in Kalamazoo ( that 's the 0 ; guitars made in Nashville at this time carried a 5 ) and that it was the 58th made in the batch that was stamped the 299th day of the year . |
| 8 | The other contenders are Llanfairfechan Town and Porthmadog , third and fourth placed in Gwynedd , and Prestatyn Town , runners-up in Clwyd . |
| 9 | He oversees all Argentinian arms purchases in Europe , in particular the three frigates being built ( a fourth arrived in Argentina on 21 March ) with British components in the nearby Blohm and Voss shipyard . |
| 10 | The test car was a cool looking two litre multivalve model in glacier blue , first registered in October 1990 and supplied by Georgesons of Breck Road , Anfield . |
| 11 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 12 | His lectures on Milton were first given in the beautiful fifteenth-century Divinity Schools , underneath the Bodleian Library . |
| 13 | The contrast between humanist and Christian values in relation to individual responsibility struck me very forcefully recently when within the same day I happened to read Free to Choose , Milton and Rose Friedman 's recent book in defence of economic freedoms , and a sermon of John Wesley , on ‘ The Use of Money ’ , first given in London in 1748 . |
| 14 | Two items , Oncques amor and Petite fleur , are first given in alternative setting played by chitarrone and harp , providing both comparisons and well placed variety of tone and texture . |
| 15 | When the lover 's list was first calculated in 1973 it cost just Pounds 2,818.60 . |
| 16 | The Prudential was first formed in 1848 and has grown to become one of the largest financial services groups in the world . |
| 17 | The original village , first made an appearance in the public records in 1056 when it donated land for a monastery , but it was actually first formed in the foot hills in 641 by mountain folk escaping an invasion by the Rotaris . |
| 18 | COPPES was first formed in September 1980 in the two men 's prisons which held Political prisoners and in the Women 's Prison at Ilopango . |
| 19 | On Nov. 15 the PNC candidates for seats on municipal councils were declared elected unopposed after a boycott of the elections by the five-party opposition Patriotic Coalition for Democracy ( PCD , which included the PPP , first formed in 1986 — see p. 34163 ) which had demanded electoral reform . |
| 20 | A peace agreement was signed in Addis Ababa ( Ethiopia ) on July 12 between the Ugandan government , represented by Ateke Ejalu , Minister of State for Special Duties , and the Uganda People 's Democratic Movement ( UDPM ) , first formed in 1986 [ see p. 35493 ] and chaired by Eric Otema Alimadi ( Prime Minister until 1985 under the Milton Obote regime ) . |
| 21 | The Baltic Council ( comprising Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , first formed in 1934 and revived in May 1990 — see p. 37462 ) sought to develop economic ties with the Nordic Council ( founded in the early 1950s and comprising Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway and Sweden ) . |
| 22 | The contrary view , that all embryos existed from the beginning of the world , was first formulated in the 1690s by , among others , Malebranche in France and Swammerdam in the Netherlands . |
| 23 | The AEC Treaty was signed on June 3 ( the concept of an economic community having been first formulated in the 1968 Declaration of Algiers ) . |
| 24 | Such direct measures were first undertaken in rural areas by the Development Commission , established in 1947 . |
| 25 | The report argued that , in secondary modern schools , the top third of pupils were capable of taking and benefiting from external exams below GCE level [ the future CSE , first examined in 1965 ] , but that the majority of pupils there should be spared them . |
| 26 | This story was first exposed in the August 1973 issue of the New Internationalist . |
| 27 | The Sagawa Kyubin scandal , which had first broken in January 1992 [ see p. 38721 ] , involved illegal payments made by Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin , the largest regional affiliate in the Kyoto-based Sagawa Kyubin group , Japan 's second-largest parcel delivery firm . |
| 28 | Vehicles for repair were first placed in the initial examination bay , this activity occupying three rows in the top paint shop . |
| 29 | Many of those first placed in charge of rural posts proved unsuitable , and were dismissed for abuse of power . |
| 30 | These radially-directed nuees are an example of a phenomenon known as the base surge or ground surge , first recognized in studies of test explosions of nuclear weapons . |