Example sentences of "[adj] to the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lyrical meditation proper to the second degree of love that he includes in Ego Dormio projects a lightness of spirit as it embodies rhetorically a sense of the joyful reality behind the story which is the goal of the contemplative . |
| 2 | Moreover , ASFV and vaccinia virus RNA polymerases might have a slightly different subunit composition , because ASFV encodes a protein similar to the sixth subunit of yeast RNA polymerase II ( RPB6 ; J.M.Rodríguez , R.J.Y. , J.F.Rodríguez and E.V. , unpublished ) , while no similar protein is encoded in the genome of vaccinia virus . |
| 3 | But despite being subject to the second wave of pan-European reform in psychiatry since the 1940s , France has not moved away from the asylums with any speed . |
| 4 | It should be noted that the same definition of " in the course of a business " would appear to be appropriate to the second limb of the definition , concerned with the status of the supplier ; the Court of Appeal in R&B relied on decisions concerned with the meaning of supplies " in the course of business " under the Trade Descriptions Acts ( see Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 831 ; Havering LBC v Stephenson [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 1375 ) . |
| 5 | perfect to the nth degree of difficulty . |
| 6 | I dissolved a grain of soda in half an ounce of water mixed with alcohol in a phial , which was thereby filled two-thirds full , and shook this solution continuously for half an hour , and this fluid was in potency and energy equal to the thirtieth development of power . ’ |
| 7 | the Vendor shall be under no liability in respect of any of the Warranties unless the Vendor shall have been given written notice by the Purchaser of a specific breach of the Warranties prior to the second anniversary of Completion ; |
| 8 | ‘ Sam Velerisms ’ , as they were called , which became the basis for ‘ Sam Wellerisms ’ , were famous in the period 1831–6 , just prior to the first publication of The Pickwick Papers . |
| 9 | prior to the next meeting of the Highways Committee before any decision is taken with regard to a preferred route for the Brandon bypass . |
| 10 | prior to the next meeting of the Highway Committee before any decision is taken with regard |
| 11 | For the sequentiality , the " and then " sense of and in sentences like ( 32 ) , is simply a standard implicature due to the fourth sub-maxim of Manner , which provides a pragmatic overlay on the semantic content of and wherever descriptions of two events , which might be sequentially ordered , are conjoined . |
| 12 | The backfill material contained a considerable amount of pottery , which was stylistically attributable to the second half of the eleventh century AD , along with much burnt clay or daub thought to derive from wattle walls . |
| 13 | Very few early umbrellas survive but the Museums have about three dateable to the first half of the 19th century . |
| 14 | 21 ) , an arrangement of four " L " -shaped panels around a central square which contains an elaborate floral device , is again of very high quality and is also datable to the second half of the century ( pp. 132-133 ) . |
| 15 | By a rare chance some fragmentary wooden panels with pictures of high quality , datable to the third quarter of the sixth century , have been found in a cave at Pitsa near Sicyon . |
| 16 | I had imagined that if the Secretary of State was interested in doing his job properly he would have said to us , ’ Mr. Stoner 's opinion will be made available to the first meeting of the Select Committee . ’ |
| 17 | We may , however , observe that ( 4 ) may be written unc i.e. as the sum of unc and a rank 1 matrix of which the rows are proportional to the second row of |
| 18 | The Sun 's luminosity is proportional to the fourth power of its temperature , according to Stefan 's law . |
| 19 | It seemed to flow from a weaker to a stronger system , thus acting contrary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 20 | Following a journey to Persia in 1889–90 of which he published an account in 1892 , he tells of the constitution in the 1840s of a Turco-Persian commission pursuant to the Second Treaty of Erzerum concluded at the prompting of Britain and Russia : |
| 21 | They lay down their pens and flex their fingers , as she pauses and shuffles her notes preparatory to the next stage of her exposition . |
| 22 | At this point Schoenberg was close to the first ideal-type of modernist practice in his accentuation of contingency . |
| 23 | And , as , I , I know the people who were here last week , the questions for act one scene one or two will be relevant to the second part of the seminar , it will be , but we 'll ignore them at the moment . |
| 24 | Loyal to the last drop of blood . |
| 25 | At laparotomy , however , she was found to have an area of oedematous , necrotic , haemorrhagic pancreas adjacent to the second part of the duodenum . |
| 26 | It was certainly significant to the next stage of Nicholson 's career , and indeed what was happening in Hollywood itself at a time of changing tastes which made it almost impossible to predict what next year 's cinema audience would go into raptures about . |