Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | The promotion of private Acts of Parliament continued throughout the nineteenth century , and indeed beyond , bringing a bewildering and sometimes surprising range of services within the power of particular local authorities . |
| 3 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 4 | Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 . |
| 5 | In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases . |
| 6 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 7 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 8 | ( The Pentateuch or the Torah is the Law of Moses found in the first five books of the Old Testament . ) |
| 9 | Excitement mounted ; in her memoirs Princess Marie Louise quotes Sir Edwin Lutyens as saying , ‘ Let us devise and design for all time something which will enable future generations to see how a king and queen of England lived in the twentieth century , and what authors , artists and craftsmen of note there were during their reign . ’ |
| 10 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 11 | The Widnes tale of woe continued in the second half , when Tony Myler was unable to hold Pyke 's pass and Turner intercepted to give Thorniley a second try . |
| 12 | Geometric arrays of holes appeared in the mid-nineteenth century — probably in parallel with the Victorian enthusiasm for patterned ‘ polychromatic ’ brickwork — and seem to be the most widespread type . |
| 13 | This state of affairs persisted into the 19th Century , Serret , in 1849 , observing that " Algebra is , properly speaking , the analysis of equations . " |
| 14 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 15 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | The only attempt to revive the Slav kingdom of Samo , which Ottokar of Bohemia made in the thirteenth century , was decisively crushed by the Holy Roman Emperor at the battle of Marchfeld ( 1278 ) . |
| 17 | The removal of whole communities for the creation of parks began in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , and hundreds , if not thousands , of instances can be cited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 18 | There were few moments to excite the crowd and the only note of controversy came in the second set when McNeil received a warning for slamming the ball out of court as she trailed 3–1 . |
| 19 | The advantages of form disappeared in the first quarter of the fourth century , when Constantine abolished the formal requirements of the civil law . |
| 20 | Consequently , childbearing is concentrated within the first decade of married life ( 84 per cent of births within marriage in 1956–60 , 92 per cent in 1976 ) , and especially in the second half of the decade — 33 per cent of births occurred in the fifth to the ninth years of marriage in 1976 compared to 26 per cent in 1951–5 ( figure 4.11 ) . |
| 21 | The Yugoslavian authorities announced on Feb. 20 that Army units stationed in the province of Kosovo had for the first time been given specific orders to quell a renewed wave of unrest among ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 22 | But when the City of London emerged as the last centre of strength for the Whig opponents of royal policy at the beginning of the 1680s , it was asked by a writ of quo warranto to show that it was entitled to all the powers it had been exercising . |
| 23 | Telford watched nervously as the team of workmen drifted towards the second pump at the top of the rise . |
| 24 | The rewards of office flowed in the sixteenth century down many tributary channels , not , as today , in the single river of salaries . |