Example sentences of "pass the [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 2 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 3 | Only a mile on , they passed the last of the Home outposts , at Dunglass , in a strong position above another of these precipitous deans ; and soon thereafter Dunbar came in sight , town and castle jutting into the Norse Sea , the eastern gateway to the fertile Lothians , red in blood to match the now prevailing redness in soil and stone . |
| 4 | On June 5 , the Slovenian Assembly passed the last of the key laws to facilitate " the takeover of actual power " and Radio Ljubljana began a three-day presentation on the Slovenian independence process in which the Slovenian government participated . |
| 5 | In 1525 , parliament was sufficiently alarmed by ‘ the damnable opinions of heresy ’ of ‘ the heretic Luther and his disciples ’ to pass the first of the acts which sought to prevent Lutheran literature being brought into the kingdom . |
| 6 | They were passing the last of the houses now . |
| 7 | We had passed the last of the houses and were driving in grey early-morning light through a landscape of scorched earth , blackened trees . |
| 8 | He did not take it too seriously , but nonetheless he wheeled his pony and made off at speed , back towards the fringes of Clocaenog , where he had passed the last of the prince 's watch . |