Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 3 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 4 | Much depended in the last resort , too , on the power with which the negotiators went to the negotiating table , what goodwill there was between parties and what the strength of the bargaining power was . |
| 5 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 6 | November — We are often better favoured in the last weeks of the season … ’ |
| 7 | On Jan. 7 the Iraqi Health Minister Umid Midhat Mubarak said that 85,942 Iraqis , including 27,473 children under five [ not 80,000 as wrongly given in the first paragraph of the article on p. 38696 ] , had died due to medical shortages . |
| 8 | number for Malcolm Smith , secretary of N.E.B.E. , was wrongly given in the last issue . |
| 9 | Now , I think there 's probably a very nice parallel here , I ca n't help thinking it was probably a bit better , must have been better organised in the Second World War , but there 's going to be a erm special exhibition here is n't there , on memories of change on Oxford in the Second World War , and of course there were a great many extra people there too . |
| 10 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 11 | With the Jenny Pitman horses in such tremendous form at the moment , MOSSGARA ( 2.15 ) must be greatly respected in the second division of the Knight Park Novices Hurdle . |
| 12 | The evangelical belief , much disseminated in the mid-nineteenth century , that children should be protected from the rigours of the adult world and educated and assisted to be morally good adults , was joined by the end of the century by a belief in the economic and military importance of building , from birth , a strong and stable race . |
| 13 | He is as baffled as anybody over why Pool have suddenly slumped in the last month . |
| 14 | These later changes have all occurred in the last century and the pace of change is ever quickening . |
| 15 | It comprised 118 pictures , with paintings by Claude , Poussin , Veronese , Van Dyck , Rubens , Salvator Rosa , Nicolaes Berchem , and a group of ten pictures by Adriaen van der Werff , a contemporary Dutch classicist painter much admired in the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's just not true , ’ she protested , ‘ his innocence did n't prevent him from being wrongly accused in the first place , did it ? ’ |
| 17 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |
| 18 | It was the plentiful supply of ‘ fixed air ’ ( carbon dioxide was so called in the 18th century ) above the vats that held his attention . |
| 19 | Perhaps the majority of the " workhouses " still so called in the last third of the eighteenth century were in no real sense distinguishable from " poorhouses " , that is from places where the impotent poor , through age or infirmity , could be lodged either until death or more temporarily . |
| 20 | Even more important is the need to delineate and explain the growth in anticlericalism and antipapalism which was so marked in the second half of the century and which so drastically modified the relation of the church to the realm . |
| 21 | Today its Gothic bell-tower , much restored in the nineteenth century , is the only substantial survivor . |
| 22 | Built in Hellenistic times this market place was greatly enlarged in the first and second centuries A.D. to become one of the largest in the Roman world . |
| 23 | Here , he is allowing the Bible a degree of jurisdiction over scientific statements , which , though merely affirmed in the first place , might after all turn out to be demonstrable . |
| 24 | And er , as you 'll see , probably next week 's , I 'm not going to get to this now , er , next week , or possible the week after , even , depending on how long it takes me to get there , I will suggest to you that the revolution now taking place in behavioural science , does suggest wh what they are , and that there are in fact some deeply countering intuitive insights , erm , into this whole issue , which have only emerged in the last few years . |
| 25 | According to Prof Friel , who left home in 1968 to work in England , self-confidence among Derry people has only emerged in the last few years . |
| 26 | The first group were highly cited in the first year after publication , and declined thereafter . |
| 27 | The use of oils in the kitchen has greatly increased in the last few decades , influenced by foreign travel and the subsequent awareness of international cuisine . |
| 28 | The last buildings to be completed were those of the Banca Commerciale which were only finished in the first quarter of the twentieth-century . |
| 29 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 30 | But it 's only happened in the last five years . |