Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [num ord] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , I remember a great many rehearsals , sixty or seventy each for the first performances of the Bach or the Beethoven . |
| 2 | One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles . |
| 3 | Although we have no record , the Magnolia Grandiflora from the United States that clothe the wall of the north wing of the house must have been some of the first plantings of magnolias at Lanhydrock ; I would guess that are now well inside their second century . |
| 4 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 5 | In 1898 , on the Torres Straits expedition , he performed some of the first experiments in cross-cultural psychology and also developed the genealogical method as a key to the study of social organization . |
| 6 | In the seventeenth century some of the first Fellows of the Royal Society had been interested in spirits and ghosts . |
| 7 | They were some of the first cars to be withdrawn when the fleet was modernised , and they were scrapped in 1934 . |
| 8 | Some of the first victims to be helped came from the war-torn streets of Greece … |
| 9 | According to Chief Executive Derek Langslow , the use of peat contributes to " the loss of some of the last remnants of Britain 's primeval landscape , and to the destruction of a habitat which required thousands of years to develop " . |
| 10 | I did not recognize the Evans family of Penygraig as some of the last members of the old immemorial community of the hills until I had talked with Edward Thomas of Penywaun . |
| 11 | These conveyed two 760mm gauge steam locomotives , some of the last survivors of a class of some 800 engines built between 1946 and 1959 for the extensive Polish narrow gauge systems . |
| 12 | Inexplicable laughter would , I was sure , seem to my mother yet another of the first signs of madness . |
| 13 | I set out with a more or less religious belief in a Platonic , eternal world , in which mathematics shares with a beauty , shines , I 'm sorry , with a beauty of that of the last cantos of the Paradiso . ’ |
| 14 | In Oxfordshire much of the last blocks of Wychwood Forest were cleared and replaced by regular stone-walled fields in 1857–8 . |
| 15 | Many of the first traces of human habitation in what we now call Scotland have been identified from bones and stone implements found in caves along the approaches to the eastern firths of Forth and Tay . |
| 16 | Papert evidently dislikes many of the first uses of computers in education , but is more interested in their power to transform schools than to abolish them . |
| 17 | This included transplant surgery and medical treatment for AIDS ( but not " comfort care " for those in the last stages of the illness ) . |
| 18 | An internal inquiry has been carried out by Ealing social services , in whose area Christopher lived for most of the last weeks of his life , but no serious professional errors were found . |