Example sentences of "of [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two reasons for this : first , it provides a complete and convincing display of the art of drawing in the second half of the fifteenth century , with outstanding exhibits lent by major collections worldwide . |
| 2 | The European Council reaffirmed its willingness to help the Soviet Union but referred back to the Commission the task of submitting before the next Council meeting proposals for decisions to be taken , and also asked it to draw up a plan for a major commercial , scientific and technical co-operation agreement with the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | ‘ I think Hasan sort of turns into the Twenty-fourth Imam , ’ said Robert . |
| 4 | Joint authorship in an author 's first paper may be justifiable on grounds of inexperience , but the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) policy of indexing under the first author only will fail to identify the output of Ph D research if the researcher is not named first . |
| 5 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 6 | However , the under 20 age group includes 18–19-year-old mothers whose children , under conditions of relatively low levels of overall infant mortality , have about the same low , or even lower , risk of dying during the first year of life as those born to women in the age group 25–29 years and face a much lower risk than those born to mothers below 18 years of age . |
| 7 | The likelihood of dying in the first year is increased by no more than twofold . |
| 8 | Graham was thrust into the Palace Manager 's seat when Arthur Rowe was taken seriously ill in November l 962 , and with the club in grave danger of returning to the Fourth Division . |
| 9 | Because the pattern of trading in the first year of the market was so confined by technical and political constraints it would be unsafe to generalise from it . |
| 10 | They looked up at her , and it was clear without anything being said that they were doing their best to cram fifty years of living into the next week or two . |
| 11 | The clerk is required to make the application available for inspection during normal office hours by members of the public from the date of lodging until the first day of the meeting at which it is to be considered ( subs . |
| 12 | Often students are either nervous of venturing into the third field or ignorant that opinions and recommendations are required to complete the report . |
| 13 | about , by the time you 've read this another twenty two children would of died in the third world , aargh |
| 14 | The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ To me , the whole starting issue is a red herring what we should be doing is looking at bringing the control of racing into the 20th century . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 17 | DARLINGTON 'S hopes of remaining in the Third Division were dealt a severe blow in London last night when they crashed to their eleventh away defeat of the season . |
| 18 | ( We will talk more about the role of visualizing in the next section . ) |
| 19 | ‘ Steady , Dr. Stevie , ’ Patrick warned , as he showed every sign of rushing at the next shot . |
| 20 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 21 | But there have been significant changes in the nature of stealing since the Second World War . |
| 22 | The invention of printing in the fifteenth century steadily did away with the need for handwritten books , and it is interesting to note that from that time onwards various styles of calligraphy developed for different purposes . |
| 23 | The invention of printing in the 16th century had resulted in a rapid spread of literacy . |
| 24 | Reading Neale 's articles in the immediate context of teaching for the first time a course dangerously titled , ‘ Television Theory ’ ( is there such a thing ? ) , |
| 25 | She could recall the excitement of spending for the first time money she had actually earned . |
| 26 | He could link both with a talent for seeing the future and the past from a sideways , yet very humanly understandable , perspective in short , bringing out the magic of travelling in the fourth dimension to the audience sitting at home . |
| 27 | There are currently 1.7 million people in the UK who have a TV but not a licence , and most will be doing a lot of viewing over the next couple of weeks . |
| 28 | BBC1 accounted for almost 39pc of viewing in the last quarter of 1990 , but that figure had dropped to 34pc a year later . |
| 29 | In three rounds of voting on the first day of the two-day congress held in Gdansk , Krzaklewski emerged as winner from a field of seven candidates . |
| 30 | They would n't of gone in the first place . |