Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun prp] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Age on Entry The minimum age is 17 years 6 months on 1st October of the proposed year of entry . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , Eugenius died on the 8th July of the same year , and was succeeded by Anastasius IV . |
| 3 | On 24th November of the same year he ‘ exhibited to Mr. Lloyd and Mrs Southey — and saw Mr. Harden — went to see Mrs. Sharpe and the poor Lady . ’ |
| 4 | The more chauvinistic among us might place the marker in the calendar for 4th August of the same year when Great Britain entered the war against the central powers , or two years later at dawn on the 1st July 1916 , when the opening of the Battle of the Somme destroyed the lives or the illusions of a generation of British youth . |
| 5 | Moreover , the mile handicap on the first Friday of the Flat season presents punters with a formidable ally in the shape of Lynda Ramsden . |
| 6 | The first Saturday of the 1992–93 season and there , as big a pain in the neck for the opposition as ever , is Probyn in his England colours . |
| 7 | The first entry in his diary for 1802 is ‘ 19th January — Mr. Ibbetson 's Dance ’ ; and on 12th May of the same year he danced there again , and did not return home till next day . |
| 8 | An Arab can never know the exact date of his birth according to our calendar , for if he was born on 12th January , that day in the Muslim calendar might be 12th January of the previous year by the time he was twenty or twenty-one , owing to the shorter months . |
| 9 | Our newest granddaughter Rachel was christened on the first Sunday of the new year , and that was a wonderful happy day , with a party in her parents ’ home . |
| 10 | It was enough to make Lucy suspect there were tiny uprooted plants in their handbags , but she said nothing while taking details of their request for lunch and a bush walk on the first Wednesday of the following month . |
| 11 | A vote is then held on the last Friday of the following month and members drop white balls or black balls in a box bearing the member 's name . |
| 12 | The numbers involved are about 700 and most of these job losses have now happened and indeed the bulk of them happened on the last Friday of the financial year which was last week when about 150 people took early retirement . |
| 13 | Motoring is already braced for taxes to recoup the cost of abolishing last November of the special tax on new cars . |
| 14 | The effort was rewarded with the discovery last August of the faint smudge ( 7,000 times fainter than Pluto ) which he and Jane Luu tagged 1992QB 1 ( they later named it Smiley , after le Carré 's spy ) . |