Example sentences of "[num ord] place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's tragic that the Health Service is taking second place to a holiday camp . ’ |
| 2 | Part-time soldiering essentially took second place to a full-time job , and it was impossible to make the TA work as anything apart from a weekend occupation . |
| 3 | Out of 300 good class competitors , he achieved a brilliant second place on a hilly route in 59 mins. 7 secs . |
| 4 | Davis Love III , the American , slipped from second place with a one-over-par 73 for 138 , and another American , Mark Calcavecchia , missed the cut for the second successive tournament . |
| 5 | Leaders South Wales Police remain top despite their 28–16 defeat at Abertillery , but Aberavon strengthened their hand in second place with a 31–15 win over Cross Keys . |
| 6 | And in the MPA event , she also got a second place with a shot of copper piping taken for Hydro Polymers at Aycliffe . |
| 7 | In North Division moved into second place with a 24–12 win Hartlepool whose outstanding player , full back Marty Saunders , scored a consolation try , Alan Calvert adding the conversion and two penalties . |
| 8 | Leeds had a good start in the new competition , climbing to second place after a 7–1 win over Barnsley in October , in which Price got five of the goals . |
| 9 | The battle for middle-order supremacy resulted in David Lloyd , Finchley moving into second place after a 3–0 victory over Connaught Club , London , and Ealing producing their first win of the season with a 2–1 home victory against Walton Astro 's . |
| 10 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 11 | As a result , at the end of just one year Louis-Napoleon moved from 50th to 24th place in a class of 94 . |
| 12 | Birmingham Bullets claimed eighth place with a 105–77 win over Cheshire . |
| 13 | must wait to find out whether they have won promotion from North-East Two after securing fourth place with a 1210 win away to second-placed Thornensians . |
| 14 | Northampton moved into fourth place after a hard-fought 12–7 win over Harlequins . |
| 15 | Italian Riccardo Patrese , in the second Benetton , was fourth fastest while Britain 's Martin Brundle clocked seventh place in a Ligier . |
| 16 | ( The theatre , always open-air , consisted in the first place of a circular dancing-floor ( orchestra ) , where the chorus danced and sang , and the skene , behind the orchestra , was later added for the actors . |
| 17 | Tradesmen 's vans , builders lorries , furniture vans ( brought by night , twelve to twenty-five at a time , ) followed into the Road Vehicle Shop gate , their mechanical condition as varied as their outward appearance , to be fitted in the first place with a double wooden box lined with pebbles — a Heath-Robinson contraption , but resistant to machine-gun fire at close range . |
| 18 | However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously . |
| 19 | BRAVE teenager Clifford Wilde took first place in a charity wheelchair race at the weekend which should help other people with disabilities become more mobile themselves . |
| 20 | DERRY will this year host the Glor na nGael prize-giving presentation after winning first place in a competition to promote Irish in the community . |
| 21 | The Model E NC46V was used by Bayles to gain fourth place in the 1931 National Air Tour at over 140mph and at the National Air Races in that year Robert Hall ( chief designer to Granville Brothers Aircraft Inc ) flew the Sportster D NC11043 to gain first place in a 400cu in pylon race , and Bayles and Mae Haizlip used the same aircraft to gain places in several other races in 1931 . |
| 22 | Without question , they deserved to claim the club 's first place in a major cup final . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , they were forced into submission , in the first place by a demonstration of the killing power of firearms . |
| 24 | The Crawley AC pair of Charlie Malmsbury and David Beattie shared first place after a four-minute difference at the half-way stage . |
| 25 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 26 | Montgomerie finished in a share of 20th place after a closing 70 for 293 . |
| 27 | Brazilian formula one driver Ayrton Senna was third , with £14.5 million , while Mansell 's Williams team mate Ricardo Patrese could only manage 16th place on a modest £5 million . |
| 28 | A spell of seven games without a win has seen the Goodison club tumble from seventh to 16th place in a month and , Beardsley apart , they rarely looked likely to trouble the supremely confident United , beaten only once in their last eight games . |
| 29 | Sailing to form , at last , was Gyngell who held onto 3rd place despite a challenge from Fenwick who came up from right behind Goodchild on the first lap . |
| 30 | He paddled to 14th place in a race won by Greg Barton of the USA . |