Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | APENALTY of nine places against the Australian yacht Prime Factor has dropped her team to third overall in the NorTel Southern Cross Cup series and lifted Britain to second . |
| 2 | When he pleaded the case for continued co-operation with the Russians , at first privately in a letter to Truman and then openly in a public speech , the President , dismissed him . |
| 3 | By contrast with Godwin and his circle , who grew out of a broad and rising general formation , at first not in critical relations with its own class , the Pre-Raphaelites , who were in majority from families of the commercial bourgeoisie , were in conscious opposition to the main cultural tendencies of their class , though they may finally be seen as articulating and expressing them . |
| 4 | Peloponnesian and Cretan sculptors work at first not in marble but in local limestones ; later sometimes in marble imported from the Cyclades , but the softer and more readily available stone is long used everywhere for building and for architectural sculpture . |
| 5 | Telford , though not sacked , disappeared from the project and Benjamin Bevan , one of the Grand Junction 's own engineers , at first nominally in tandem with Telford , became responsible for the later development . |
| 6 | The ideal of European unification existed long before 1945 , at first arguably in the mediaeval notion of ‘ Christendom ’ , and political philosophers , like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jeremy Bentham , had sometimes devised schemes for European co-operation . |
| 7 | From the time of Bede the Christian era became established for the dating of charters , but at first only in England . |
| 8 | The large demands which the BEA made on the capital market — at first directly in their own capital issues and then indirectly through the Treasury borrowing requirement — attracted criticism that electricity was ‘ crowding out ’ more desirable investment projects with potentially higher rates of return in the private sector . |