Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 2 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 3 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 4 | Having successfully completed the first year of the new Teachers ' Training Course the students have gone away to grapple with their holiday assignments . |
| 5 | The RAF Squadron which claims to have accidently dropped the first bomb on Nazi Germany , has reached the final day in its long history . |
| 6 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
| 7 | More immediate preoccupations were the domestic economic problems ( inflation , budget deficits , and trade deficits ) which had long eroded the Fourth Republic 's popularity , not to mention French national self-esteem . |
| 8 | For a moment , Folly was taken aback , but then she realised that the policeman had probably only seen the last few seconds of their little drama . |
| 9 | So chaired the first part of the report I recommend that the structure as outlined erm , be approved and that the necessary recruitment take place as soon as possible . |
| 10 | It is ironic that Kent , such a devoted follower of his master , should have only had the fifth edition , and not the ‘ most nearly perfect of all ’ on which to base his teaching . |
| 11 | They have not long entered the twentieth century and in many ways still live in the past . |
| 12 | They not only allowed the third party an action which would have been impossible at civil law , but also permitted specific performance . |
| 13 | Garling 's design was also placed first on Angell and Pownall 's and Burn 's War Department lists , although the first place they awarded to another Second Empire scheme on the Foreign Office list , was only awarded the second prize by the judges . |
| 14 | However , the majority of these had only finished the first level of secondary education — the fifth and sixth years following four years of primary school . |
| 15 | Unfortunately life is not so simple , you have only passed the first hurdle . |
| 16 | He was omnipotent and instrumental in the fertilisation of the earth , having divinely bestowed the first rain . |
| 17 | Nobody witnessed Georgina 's fall and her body was only discovered the next morning . |
| 18 | Hence the dress and hat which sent the photographers into ecstasy in Melbourne and generally created far more attention and comment than the match in which she had successfully defeated the first of her 1991 Grand Slam titles . |
| 19 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 20 | Bobby Lavender came of age at the time the police had just crushed the last Black Panthers political group and new non-political gangs were beginning . |
| 21 | The industrious biographer of Bernard Shaw has just completed the fourth volume , but it appears as if bricks , not books , will finish him off . |
| 22 | Christina had just received the last consignment of furniture , arriving in the nick of time to prevent it being dumped higgledy-piggledy in the reception hall . |
| 23 | It was already broken the second day of . |
| 24 | It was I just took the last one on Saturday , and I then threw the |
| 25 | ‘ You have already forgotten the first rule . |
| 26 | When the result was officially declared at a general committee meeting of the Birkenhead party last night , Mr Field had already won the first round of the ballot in the individual members section with 159 votes against his two challengers , Mr Paul Davies , a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , who secured 75 votes and Militant supporter , Ms Kathy Wilson , with 48 votes . |
| 27 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 28 | China has just freed the last of the students jailed after the pro-democracy demonstrations four years ago , and this is seen as a sign of wanting improved relations with the west . |
| 29 | He had just turned the first furrow when a tiger walked up and said : " Peace be with you , friend . |
| 30 | DEVELOPERS are planning to clone an historic Liverpool terrace which has just undergone the first phase of a multi-million pound facelift . |