Example sentences of "['s] [adj] [noun sg] of the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heinrich Harrer 's classic account of the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in 1938 , The White Spider , is to be published in a radically revised and updated version later this year . |
| 2 | Of course , if you want the most sumptuous and subtle of string sonorities , Karajan 's 1971 version of the Second remains ( and is likely to remain ) unrivalled , although the present Lausanne Chamber Orchestra disc is none the less a strong contender . |
| 3 | Convinced in the summer of 1906 that the government 's contemptuous dismissal of the First Duma might ignite renewed revolutionary action , they did their best in the Vyborg Manifesto to channel any such protest into passive resistance . |
| 4 | Spain 's top museum of the twentieth century , on 10 September |
| 5 | Perhaps most valuable of all , Chiu includes Busoni 's visionary transformation of the second of Schoenberg 's Op. 11 Piano Pieces . |
| 6 | All praise , too , for the inclusion of Cortot 's fire-eating performance of the Twelfth Prelude , a less muted experience than his 1942 account . |
| 7 | Here is Dr Johnson 's 1784 rendering of the first strophe of " Diffugere nives " ( incidentally his only translation from Horace — he evidently found Juvenal more to his creative purpose ) : And here , 110 years later , is William Ewart Gladstone , at leisure from Prime Ministerial cares and the alternative recreation of tree-felling on his Hawarden estate : But here again , almost a century on , is an American poet and scholar , Burton Raffel : What has happened to Horace 's text in the course of these centennial transformations ? |
| 8 | Otherwise , the right sombrely heroic quality emerges , but the playing of the movement does not grip the listener as the composer surely intended and Leonskaja 's leisurely treatment of the second subject group ( say in the recapitulation at 9′54″ ) lacks the tension which would integrate it into the whole . |
| 9 | At first , Mosley 's outspoken criticism of the second Labour government attracted support and interest from a variety of MPs , ranging from Nye Bevan to Harold Macmillan . |
| 10 | Wedging itself in between Texas Instruments Inc 's announcement of the Tsunami Sparc chip on October 9 ( UX No 406 ) , and Sun Microsystems Inc 's expected introduction of the first Tsunami box on November 10 , MIPS Technologies Inc , now a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics Inc , is due to upgrade its 64-bit R4000 chip to the R4400 this week with a major performance boost . |
| 11 | Mosley 's own experience of the First World War was less traumatic than either Chesterton 's or Williamson 's . |
| 12 | That acclaimed show is now the model for ‘ Assault on the Arts : Culture and Politics in Nazi Germany ’ , the New York Public Library 's own examination of the Third Reich 's cultural policies . |
| 13 | Political reform was a central issue at the party 's ninth plenum of the sixth central committee in March 1990 [ see p. 37374 ] . |
| 14 | The Sonata for violin and chamber orchestra is Schnittke 's 1967 orchestration of the First Violin Sonata he composed four years earlier . |
| 15 | An important surviving example of a British Line other ranks ' regimental jacket of the 8th or King 's Regiment , c.1822 , is illustrated , and described by the Chairman of the Regimental Museum Committee . |
| 16 | The judges ' deliberate promotion of the Second Empire can perhaps be explained from the standpoint of patronage . |