Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 12 , 1990 , the second round of voting in the municipal by-election of Le Luc ( Var department ) saw an alliance between the head of the RPR-UDF list and that of the FN which defeated the incumbent socialist mayor . |
| 2 | The second round of voting in the general election , which had been scheduled for Jan. 16 , had in the meantime been cancelled by an existing body , the High Security Council , which included Prime Minister Sid-Ahmed Ghozali . |
| 3 | A second way of dealing with the amount of information to be specified in a conditional jump instruction is to separate the test and the jump into two different instructions , and to provide a short processor register to communicate between the two instructions . |
| 4 | The second way of looking at the distribution of coin hoards is to plot their geographical positions on a map . |
| 5 | The fourth aim of catering for the different levels of ability is more likely to be teacher-dependent . |
| 6 | We first came across this South Sea adventurer on the fourth week of cruising around the Caribbean on our Hallberg Rassy 352 , writes Jenny Allan . |
| 7 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 8 | Replace the first piece of knitting on the machine . |
| 9 | It was also , we knew , a slight manipulation of events : in our first test of choosing between the interests of purely " documentary " objectivity , and those of cinematic drama , we came up wanting . |
| 10 | Table 18–2 shows the price at which some of the early privatizations were offered for sale and compares this with the free market price established on the first day of trading on the stock market . |
| 11 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 12 | In a first round of voting during the summer , and then during their closed-doors assembly at a secret spot in Berlin yesterday , the musicians came out in favour of a likeable man who has worked well with all kinds of orchestras , and who is diplomatic rather than autocratic . |
| 13 | The first round of voting in the general election took place on May 20 [ see p. 38101 for calling of general election in March following collapse of Shekhar government ] . |
| 14 | The changes provided for a second poll to be held within 14 days of the first round of voting in the Federal Assembly if no candidate won at least 60 per cent of the vote . |
| 15 | The first round of voting in the presidential elections took place on Aug. 2 . |
| 16 | ‘ I am sad , ’ Michel Rocard , former prime minister and Socialist presidential candidate , said as he surveyed the scene of devastation after the first round of voting in the general election on Sunday night . |
| 17 | Occhetto , leader of the PCI since 1988 , narrowly failed to secure the necessary 274 votes for election as secretary of the PDS in the first round of voting by the new party 's national council on Feb. 4 , mainly due to the absence of 132 members . |
| 18 | Bushey Studios , in Hertfordshire , gave Crawford his first taste of acting for the big screen , although the thrills and spills in Soapbox Derby meant that plenty of fun was had at various locations in and around London . |
| 19 | Notice how the first step of looking through the window is less threatening than the second one of opening the door . |
| 20 | Corpus Christi College employed him too , from 1605 to 1607 , in 1609 , and from 1615 to 1616 ; in his third period of working for the college he was assisted by a pupil , Henry Wilcocke . |
| 21 | As the oar disappeared into the distance , his last chance of returning to the team 's hotel with dignity drifted away . |
| 22 | Early in the afternoon , on the third day of walking without the wheelbarrow , four men appeared on the road a quarter of a mile further up the canyon . |
| 23 | The same order changed the colour of the last area of facing on the khaki jacket — the buttoned shoulder strap — from sky-blue to white , to bring it into line with the colour of the officers ' transverse shoulder straps , the NCOs ' chevrons , and the trouser stripes . |
| 24 | ‘ It was pretty close for a while , but in the last two sets I got run over by a Mack truck , ’ said Navratilova , who told the crowd that next year will probably be her last year of competing on the tour as a singles player . |
| 25 | Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated . |