Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curricular novelties continued : the Headmaster , himself a Classicist , reported on Speech Day : we have made the experiment of allowing boys in the 5th to choose their own work for two hours a week , with the interesting result that a dozen boys have chosen to do Greek . " |
| 2 | In August 1899 , Joseph revisited his Valley of Winding Waters for the first time in twenty-two years . |
| 3 | Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques . |
| 4 | A fountain pen is a writing instrument , metonymically ‘ fountain ’ relative to its reservoir , non-dip implicitly in its connotation , constituting a magnetic focus of cascading libido to the last drop , paradigmatically self-dipping in a Reichian sense . |
| 5 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 6 | ( He had previously given assurances that he would return to face charges of slandering Mazowiecki during the first round . ) |
| 7 | We are now evaluating the performance of wether lambs from the first cross to be finished under hill conditions , and we will use the first cross females for early lamb production without using sponges . |
| 8 | The French authorities did something to safeguard communal property among their Moslem subjects in Algeria , even though Napoleon III ( in the Senatus-Consulte of 1863 ) found it inconceivable that individual property rights in land should not be established formally among the members of Moslem communities ‘ where possible and opportune ’ , a measure which actually had the effect of permitting Europeans for the first time to buy them out . |
| 9 | They argue that democratic theory needs to be adjusted to the realities of governing Britain in the twentieth century . |
| 10 | There are logical conditions of experiencing objects of the second category , but colour always figures as an object of the first category , as in the following passage : |
| 11 | It is also likely that the ads for the more expensive and unusual products will be of greater general interest than those for the cheap day-to-day items : it is quite tempting to study in detail an ad for an expensive car , or browse through the ‘ houses for sale ’ columns , even if you aspire only as far as a second-hand Escort and have no intention of moving house within the next 10 years . |
| 12 | Despite the growing demographic and other pressures on the NHS , it has reduced the real costs of treating patients in the last ten years . |
| 13 | The third column of figure 8.4 shows the result of taking logs of the second column . |
| 14 | Shortages in the supply of wrapping materials during the Second World War meant that extremes of economy were necessary . |
| 15 | According to the 1987 Conservative Election Manifesto : ‘ Home-ownership has been the great success story of housing policy in the last eight years . ’ |
| 16 | It might appear that chaining or tagging would always be preferable to the simpler system of storing records in the next available position . |
| 17 | Moving the suspension of standing orders at the next meeting of Cork County Council , Councillor Gene Fitzgerald TD complained that the first council members heard of the planning decision was when they read of it in the morning paper . |
| 18 | A Ridge had been recorded in a list of nailers in the village back in Queen Anne 's reign and the family 's connection with metal hand crafts was not broken until 1970 when John Henry Ridge retired ( at the age of ninety-one ) from his part-time occupation of making gimlets in the last of Ecclesfield 's little smithies . |
| 19 | COPING AWARD : a local laundry has offered Mrs J vouchers to cover fifty per cent of the cost of washing bed-linen over the next six months . ’ |
| 20 | It is historically untrue to say that religious decline in Europe began in the twentieth century : the majority of working people in the first one hundred years of industrialism were not regular churchgoers ( though the new middle classes were ) . |
| 21 | An application has been made to the Charity Commissioners for the Bradford Atea Project to be given registered charity status and the association has set itself a target of raising £20,000 during the next 12 months . |