Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration . |
| 2 | On his death ten years later , he was succeeded as leader of the community by one of his companions , Abu Bakr , who later became seen as the first of a line of caliphs ( khulafa in Arabic ) . |
| 3 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 4 | An Egyptian man in a car was killed and nine other people injured in the latest of a spate of attacks by Muslim militants . |
| 5 | It was said in the 1840S of a future President of the republic that he had the advantage of the ‘ magic and mystery of a name ’ . |
| 6 | At best the idea of action as produced by the following of a rule is an icon or model of the process by which actions are really generated . |
| 7 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 8 | In the case of levels , opting for the uppermost of a set of them seems less arbitrary . |
| 9 | South Vaagsö lies on a narrow strip of shoreline beneath a sheer rock face several hundred feet high , the town 's unpainted wooden buildings straggling along the three-quarters of a mile of main road running parallel to and some 50 yards from the shoreline . |
| 10 | Otherwise he would not only have to wait till the young of a non-related male were reared but would probably have to protect them as well in order to prevent other males from supplanting him . |
| 11 | Cricket now , and while England are getting ready to meet Pakistan in the final of the World Cup , there 's another piece of sporting history being made over in South Africa.Worcestershire 's players are preparing for the first of a five match series there , to help the country back from years of sporting isolation . |
| 12 | Mrs Fletcher was bending over the last of a bed of weeds , hoping finally to rid herself of them before her husband returned from the potato harvesting . |
| 13 | Probably he knew only that Jehana objected to the idea of marrying Artai , and had been told that her family wished to avoid giving offence by rejecting the suit , and so were willing to see her contracted without the preliminary of a courtship . |
| 14 | £10,000 would be released as the first of a three year commitment . |
| 15 | The agreement has been hailed as the first of a series intended to tackle the chronic industrial pollution problems of eastern Germany . |
| 16 | Earlier in the month , on Nov. 8 , Roh had attended a one-day meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Kyoto , in what was described as the first of a planned series of regular bilateral discussions . |
| 17 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 18 | The Conservatives have reversed the trends established in the 1970s of a narrowing of both income and wealth distribution . |