Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 2.1 gives additional information about these two broad industrial areas , showing that it is in the retail trade and the hotels and catering industry in the first of these , and public administration , education , medical services , " other services to the public " , recreational and cultural services and personal services in the second , where the proportion of temporary workers is greatest and/or where an important share of the temporary workforce is to be found . |
| 2 | and team should also enjoy support for the second of my points . |
| 3 | I will spring a tear , come to attention and salute that old Scottish soldier who took an alien handed to feed his family and still bring honour to the 91st of Foot . |
| 4 | I had n't officially stopped work till the first of September . |
| 5 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |
| 6 | Richard Cohen at Hodder has bought a life of Hugh Gaitskill , by Brian Brivati , who has a doctorate from London University and who came to Hodder on a recommendation from Peter Hennessy ( author of Never Again ) ; Brivati will make use of the last of Gaitskill 's papers to be made available , released this month . |
| 7 | If there was a resolution on the agenda today to increase the subscription , and I hasten to add there is n't , but if there was then that increase by convention would take effect on the first of January nineteen ninety four but the full value of the increase would not reach our income and expenditure account until the year nineteen ninety five to ninety six and this means that we are not well placed to respond to short-term financial problems . |
| 8 | And when did they actually terminate the employment did it take effect from the eighteenth of June or what ? |
| 9 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 10 | Rachel dies near Bethlehem ( Ephrath ) giving birth to the last of Jacob 's 12 sons . |
| 11 | We mailed the six packages recorded delivery on the 14th of January and sat down to wait . |
| 12 | The Lord will take care of the second of these — opportunities will be found . |
| 13 | It is emotional because he is saying goodbye to the last of his kind . |
| 14 | ‘ They only make love on the twenty-ninth of February , ’ said Hyacinth , ‘ and then only when it rains . ’ |
| 15 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 16 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 17 | Concerning those chemical changes , which were of fantastic magnitude , taking place during the first of these periods , it is probably true to say that most established religions do now , perhaps reluctantly , accept as true the scientific theories governing the associated processes of evolution . |
| 18 | probably a cup final and they 're still playing football on the first of May . |
| 19 | I was advised by the Greenbelt Local Plan Programme Officer , on fifth March , that counsel for North Yorkshire County Council , with the apparent concurrence of counsel for Ryedale District Council , had delivered an oral submission to the inspector , that at the hearing of the case which was to have taken place on the eleventh of March , certain evidence contained in my proof of evidence issued on twelfth February should be treated as inadmissible . |
| 20 | But in order to avoid having to rely on a null result , Honey and Hall ( 1989 c ) conducted a further study which attempted to eliminate problems of this sort by making use of the second of the within-subjects designs presented in Table 5.1 . |
| 21 | Now she waited , husbanding strength for the first of many visitors . |
| 22 | A star studded array of jockeys are lined up to take part in the first of seven races , The Classic FM Celebrity Riders Handicap Stakes at The Newmarket Countryside Race Day . |
| 23 | Whatever else the planners may have done , they have disastrously lost sight of the last of these objectives . |
| 24 | On May 17th a partial but telling answer to the first of these questions emerged when US West , one of America 's huge regional Bell telephone companies , said it would pay $1.5 billion for a 25% stake in Time Warner Entertainment ( TWE ) , the cable-TV and film subsidiary of the world 's biggest media conglomerate , whose stars include Mel Gibson ( pictured above ) . |
| 25 | In this chapter , the inductivist account of science will be criticized by casting doubt on the third of these assumptions . |