Example sentences of "the [num ord] examples [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | One of the first examples to be discovered in animals was the opening of milk bottles in Britain by great tits , blue tits and coal tits . |
2 | The manufacture of chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid during the first world war were probably the first examples to be labelled with the term ‘ biotechnology ’ . |
3 | Unfortunately for the British Museum , the first examples of that reality experienced by the viewer on leaving the exhibition are the rooms containing its Roman collection . |
4 | One of the first examples of a curvilinear glasshouse , it stands as a reminder of bygone eras in Belfast 's history . |
5 | Collectors are naturally anxious to secure , if they can , the first examples of the various media used for illustration . |
6 | RBP , BLG ( which also binds retinol and other hydrophobic ligands ) , insecticyanin and bilin-binding protein , the first examples of known 3-dimensional structure , all comprise similar cup-shaped antiparallel β -barrel frameworks with successive +1 topology , formed from strands linked by loops that differ between the proteins . |
7 | In contrast to the comments ( above ) on pavements with four pairs of interlaced squares , this mosaic can be considered one of the first examples of a distinctive saltire arrangement : an arrangement which has pelta-urns ( with bases facing away from the central roundel ) on each arm . |
8 | These were created or taken over by the state at various times since the first examples under the 1906–14 Liberal Government , but the largest group of Nationalization Acts covering coal , road and rail services , gas , electricity and iron and steel came under the 1945 — 51 Labour Government . |
9 | The sirens are cast solid , like Geometric bronzes , but the griffin-heads are the first examples in Greece of hollow-casting , another thing now learnt from the East of immense importance for Greek art ( below , pp. 50f . ) . |
10 | One of the last examples for this period was the conscious creation of a further naval base at Granville , in western Normandy , called the ‘ clef du pays par mer et par terre ’ by Charles VII in the charter by which he granted privileges to those who would come to settle there to keep it for the good of France . |
11 | The movement was , despite all its rhetoric about the need for ‘ organization ’ and Roseberian efficiency , one of the last examples of Nonconformist voluntarism because ultimately it was only a collection of men , and sometimes women , who wanted to promote their identity as ‘ Free Churchmen ’ . |