Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The might of Gloucester beaten by bottom of the table , West Hartlepool , who 'd never won a first division game before . |
| 2 | Protests like these may have won a first round victory for the hospital , but campaigners say the fight continues . |
| 3 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
| 4 | TOP Smokebuster Karen MacGregor has won a first class trip on an Intercity 225 for helping her mother quit smoking . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , virtue alone is not enough ; possibly Carter would have been more successful and might have won a second term if he had been less intense , more flexible , less immersed in the detail of government and a little more willing to dissemble occasionally . |
| 6 | But since then he 's won a Second Division promotion medal and is near the top of the Premier League . |
| 7 | ‘ On the way home , we were approached a second time , by an Me 109 . |
| 8 | All the above chords , if transposed a fifth lower , are suitable for the viola , and , if transposed an octave and a fifth lower , for the cello also . |
| 9 | If the price had been £50 lower it would have earned a fourth star . |
| 10 | By then , however , the invaders had already occupied a third of the state — which they still hold — before the UN brokered a ceasefire . |
| 11 | T IS programmed a second data pack , in a language the Psion understands , to handle the information . |
| 12 | Top manufacturer Forbo-Nairn has added a second design , Mosaic , to its Cushionflor Bathroom World range . |
| 13 | If Lyrical Ballads was as unpopular as legend would have it , why would Wordsworth have added a second volume in 1800 , and why would both volumes be reprinted in 1802 and again in 1805 ? |
| 14 | This month , just to show we 're brolly nice people , we 've added a second prize of a new-loom AEA umbrella ! |
| 15 | It had also added a second referendum proposal ( which was rejected by a 53 per cent majority , according to Estonian radio on June 29 ) allowing participation in the forthcoming election by all those who had applied for citizenship by June 5 [ for citizenship issue see also p. 38880 ] . |
| 16 | The tiara was in essence a white cap , having two bands at the back like a mitre , but it had incorporated in it a coronet round the lower rim to which was added a second coronet under Pope Boniface VIII at the end of the thirteenth century , symbolizing sacerdotal and regal powers . |
| 17 | More recently he has added a seventh : the material and artistic dimension ( Smart 1989 : 12ff ) . |
| 18 | To these should be added a third group , which are not so abundant in terms of volume , but which are equally important . |
| 19 | However , Moon have also added a third rotary which is in fact a five-way switch . |
| 20 | To these should be added a third consideration , transparency . |
| 21 | But to this assertion of the erosion of the traditional ‘ apprenticeship ’ system for musicians and of the economic harm done to some younger performers is often added a third reason for denigrating recorded music . |
| 22 | To this we have added a third variety — repretitive contraction . |
| 23 | The ICD has added a third powerful treatment method to coronary revascularisation and antiarrhythmic drug therapies for the management of cardiac arrest survivors . |
| 24 | Section 10 establishes the Register of Land Charges consisting of five classes to which has been added a sixth , Class F. They are described below and apart from the bankruptcy entries , relate to unregistered land . |
| 25 | To these three names must now be added a fourth , Michael Dutton , who has produced new transfers using up-to-date technology which yield an astonishingly vivid quality of sound . |
| 26 | Network and relational database systems to which can now be added a fourth : |
| 27 | The country outfit with big ideas , having enjoyed a first season on their £400,000 synthetic pitch at Belfast Road , celebrate next Saturday with a star-studded game between Ireland and an internationally-strengthened home team . |
| 28 | The parents of the 33 children who had not recovered were interviewed a second time to answer the question whether the constipation/soiling problems had persisted or recurred , because we were not able to determine this from the initial questionnaire . |
| 29 | If that freelance photojournalist is wounded , but soon returns to the operational area to continue covering the story , only to be wounded a second time , then we are looking at a fairly remarkable man with a tale worth telling . |
| 30 | Data General Corp has reported a second quarter net loss of $7.6m , down from a loss last time of $55.3m . |