Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This put the central management of the Course on a more secure footing for the important preparation for the second resubmission of the Course in 1983 — 84 . |
| 2 | WITH the two main floodlit tournaments in Junior Rugby just around the corner , many clubs are looking forward to the opportunity to sharpen their skills in preparation for the first batch of league matches . |
| 3 | It 's money for preparation for the next phase of building work which is to restore the Grand Stair and the rainwater system which has failed . |
| 4 | I 'm sure you already have too many papers to read , but since I have spare copies I have enclosed a background paper we received on a European coastal conservation strategy , and a commentary on the EC and the Ramsar Convention in preparation for the 5th conference of the contracting parties of the Convention . |
| 5 | We at the Bastille have been particularly blessed by his presence during the first concert of our season , in which his active participation and guidance were of invaluable help , especially for the recording of the Turangalîla-symphonie . |
| 6 | ‘ We had a very successful relationship and partnership on the field during the last tour of India eight years ago . ’ |
| 7 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 8 | This , of course , is a much more significant limitation on scope than exists in single-contract Conventions such as the Sales Convention , and in this respect the case for the second limb of application of the two latter Conventions is stronger . |
| 9 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp and its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary last week delivered their repost to Texas Instruments Inc 's superscalar Viking Sparc in the form of HyperSparc , a 64-bit microprocessor which they hope will compete with Texas ' part for the next generation of Sparc RISC system business . |
| 10 | The Volkskammer approved on July 22 a budget for the second half of 1990 . |
| 11 | On March 27 the Russian Supreme Soviet rejected the government 's draft budget for the second quarter of 1992 and ordered it to present a new version in April . |
| 12 | The budget for the first half of 1918 had been estimated at 17.6 milliard roubles expenditure , but revenue at only 2.8 milliard . |
| 13 | On Jan. 24 , the budget for the first quarter of 1992 , amounting to 420,500 million roubles , was adopted by the Supreme Soviet . |
| 14 | Debate began in the Sejm ( the lower house of parliament ) on Jan. 4 on the government 's provisional budget for the first quarter of 1992 , which included cuts planned by the previous administration of Jan Bielecki and continued reductions in state subsidies . |
| 15 | When a missionary report estimated how much it cost per capita to convert people to Christianity , and presented a budget for the next harvest of souls , then conversion had become a business venture . |
| 16 | Jarbas Passarinho , the federal justice minister and an outspoken opponent of the park , must now agree a budget for the next stage of Operation Free Jungle . |
| 17 | As already described , the Saxon rebel Wittikind fled to the Danes for protection during the second conquest of Saxony in 776 . |
| 18 | Little dabs of left brake counteracted the crosswind for the first couple of hundred yards , but above sixty knots the rudders became effective and she was easy to align just beside the centreline lights to spare us their jolting . |
| 19 | There are currently two systems installed at the Lower Shakespeare Drift with a further six due for installation during the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 20 | Jack 's full-back partner was ‘ Dusty ’ Rhodes , while behind them was the fabulous Jack Alderson and these three heroes played an amazing sequence of exactly 100 consecutive matches together ( including cup-ties and friendlies ) helping the Palace into the Football League in the process and then into the 2nd Division as the first champions of the newly formed 3rd Division in 1920–21 . |
| 21 | The ministers ' first act was the unanimous endorsement on June 19 of Albania 's admission as the 35th member of CSCE [ see also pp. 37385 ; 37746-47 ; 37838 ] . |
| 22 | But what the District continued to seek was the 90% grant which the WEA 's national negotiators had raised unsuccessfully with the Ministry in 1954 and early 1955 : this goal became a recurrent theme of District meetings and literature through the second half of the decade . |
| 23 | In practice , student occupancy for the last week of the Christmas and Easter terms averages 50 per cent , while that for the last two weeks of the summer term is 33 per cent . |
| 24 | New telephone numbers have been issued to all staff , but a few main enquiry numbers will be retained and calls on the old numbers will be transferred to the new building for the first couple of months . |
| 25 | The general enthusiasm for the fortieth anniversary of the structure of DNA should not blind us to a few blemishes on the otherwise fair face of molecular biology . |
| 26 | The move is the latest in a series of cost-cutting measures and will reduce the group 's investment exposure for the next generation of business jets . |
| 27 | The progress during the first year of recovery will vary from one person to another but for most people this first year in any Fellowship is spent mainly in compliance : doing what is suggested by people more experienced in the Anonymous Fellowships , attending meetings , contributing to them and giving practical service in them , progressively working the 12 Steps with the guidance of a sponsor and generally learning to use the various suggested techniques of staying away from one 's primary addictive substance or behaviour and learning to deal with stressful situations in a more appropriate manner than previously . |
| 28 | The economy made good progress during the first half of 1990 , with GNP growth of 1.5 per cent , a reduction in the budget deficit , a noticeable improvement in the trade balance and a fall in inflation to 8 per cent from around 25 per cent in 1989 . |
| 29 | You should make excellent progress during the first week of the New Year . |
| 30 | Until vernacular opera made progress during the second half of the eighteenth century , ‘ opera ’ was almost synonymous with Italian opera from one end of Europe to the other . |