Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] of [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second type of collision involves the migration of an intra-oceanic island arc towards a subduction zone bounded by continental crust ( Fig. 3.3 ) . |
| 2 | A second round of inhalation forces the character to make a second T test , this time with a -10 penalty . |
| 3 | The second mode of presentation has the damaging tendency to defer argument and analysis until a closing section , before which come extended passages of paraphrase and basic description . |
| 4 | All-India radio reported on Aug. 26 that the government had appointed a second commission of inquiry to investigate the May 21 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi [ see p. 38175 ] . |
| 5 | A second matter of doubt surrounds the meanings of ‘ Parliament ’ and ‘ proceedings ’ therein to which and which only the privilege attaches . |
| 6 | The second Book of Flesh contains the Elemental Magic spells Hand of Fire , Zone of Hiding , Move Object , Wither Vegetation , Breathe Fire and Animate Water . |
| 7 | McCOIST 29th goal of season killed the tie . |
| 8 | The fourth type of headhunter combines the professionalism of the third with a practical and dynamic 1980s entrepreneurialism . |
| 9 | But when the first storm of autumn stirs the water , they leave their holes in the reef and assemble in large groups . |
| 10 | Thus the F.C.C. was held to have surmounted the first hurdle of entitlement to enter the inquiry , but fell at the second because it had misconstrued the meaning of successor in title . |
| 11 | Lack of folic acid in women in the first part of pregnancy increases the risk of the baby developing spina bifida — a serious defect of the nervous system . |
| 12 | Next though to one of the top seeds , Korean Bang Soo-Hyun ; before the match Central South 's first lady of badminton knew the challenge ahead . |
| 13 | Next though to one of the top seeds , Korean Bang Soo-Hyun ; before the match Central South 's first lady of badminton knew the challenge ahead . |
| 14 | Our first degree of specialisation to make the notion useful is to restrict ourselves to linear operators . |
| 15 | The first point of inconsistency concerns the investment policy indicated in the top left-hand corner of the grid . |
| 16 | In the first group of lead actions the position is as follows : ( 1 ) there are a very large number of major points of law which have to be decided on the manifold issues which arise under the various heads of restitutionary claim ; ( 2 ) there appear to be no or no significant disputes on the common issues of fact affecting the swaps cases generally , and indeed those matters covered by an agreed general statement of fact which has been placed before the court ; ( 3 ) there are discrete factual issues arising in individual cases , eg. , on change of position , since individual local authorities dealt with the money received under swap transactions in several different ways , which are variously relied upon as furnishing a change of position defence . |
| 17 | When the first handful of rice hit the water they did n't dart to the surface , but calmly waited for it to sink down to them . |
| 18 | Major was the first head of government to visit the country since its liberation . |
| 19 | Revealing the painful side of the very private area of a marriage or close domestic partnership involves breaking social taboos , and sympathetic response to the first hint of difficulty helps the communication ( Wilson and James , 1987 ) . |
| 20 | The information that the Departments have presented to us on which to er respond to the consultation has n't even been very and indeed when we requested after the first round of consultation to know the existing number of lines on which they placed er their , their recommendations . |
| 21 | The first Book of Flesh contains the Battle Magic spells Dispirit , Strength of Combat , Mental Duel , Smash , Animate Sword , Cloak of Darkness , Corrode , and Foetid Cloud . |
| 22 | Businesses in the sample reported a typical three-stage learning process : ‘ The first phase of learning involves the basic ‘ driving ’ skills : the use of CAD as little other than an electronic pencil . ’ |
| 23 | Wynne-Jones crouched behind Tallis , fascinatedly watching the way space changed before her , gasping as the first vortex of darkness announced the coming of the threshold into a new geistzone . |
| 24 | The first victim of violence following the establishing of the HCS was a soldier who was killed in a sub-machine-gun attack on a checkpoint at Sidi Moussa , 40 km south of Algiers on Jan. 19 . |
| 25 | The first stage of normalisation includes the filling in of details . |
| 26 | The first indications of the new 1979 Conservative Government 's attitude to investment became apparent when BR sought approval to build an additional seven HST sets to cope with the first flush of growth following the launch of 125mph services on the East Coast main line the previous year . |
| 27 | A third kind of evidence points the same way : the great collection of canon law known by the mythic name of " Pseudo-Isidore " , the substantial and , despite the inclusion of some forged papal letters , for the most part perfectly genuine residue of the western churches ' institutional life over eight centuries , was produced in the heart of Charles 's kingdom , in the province of Rheims , about 850 . |
| 28 | Activation of this third type of neurone has the effect of increasing the amount of neurotransmitter released at the synapse between sensory and motor neurones , for each nerve impulse travelling down the axon of the sensory cell . |
| 29 | A third point of distinction concerns the nature of legal and market sanctions . |
| 30 | It 's the last consignment of fuel to leave the site . |