Example sentences of "of [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you only want the bloody music , whe I , what 's the point of taping in the first place ! |
| 32 | " The results suggest , however , that a significant part of warming in the last century is not greenhouse-related " , he commented . |
| 33 | The unfortunate animal in question is incarcerated in a closed box which also contains a radioactive atom with a 50-50 chance of decaying in the next hour , emitting a y-ray in the process . |
| 34 | However , like the paternalistic approach to the working class of the Peabody Trust and the Octavia Hill system of housing in the nineteenth century , which attempted to train tenants in the virtues of punctual payment and thrift by enforcing a ban on arrears , the housing benefit simply seeks to make people pay their rent by paying if for them . |
| 35 | He could have given us a picture of Halling in the 16th century , but we will come to that later when investigating his own life here at Halling . |
| 36 | She emerged immediately and dramatically to announce that she would be continuing with the contest with the aim of winning on the second ballot . |
| 37 | He might have insisted , ‘ You can never recreate the feeling of winning for the first time , ’ but his palms were sweating with anticipation as the tapes went up . |
| 38 | In Ireland the prospect of playing in the second World Cup brought the arm-wrestling contest between the powerful Irish Universities and the students union to an end . |
| 39 | ‘ But I wo n't know how bad the damage is until I see the physio tomorrow , and then I may have an idea if I have a chance of playing in the first league game . ’ |
| 40 | Students who show evidence of sufficient merit may on completion of the course and at the discretion of the Course Committee be given the opportunity of transferring to the second year of an appropriate degree programme within the Faculty . |