Example sentences of "of [verb] in 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 likelihood of dying in the first year is increased by no more than twofold . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | about , by the time you 've read this another twenty two children would of died in the third world , aargh |
| 5 | The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( We will talk more about the role of visualizing in the next section . ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The invention of printing in the 16th century had resulted in a rapid spread of literacy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | BBC1 accounted for almost 39pc of viewing in the last quarter of 1990 , but that figure had dropped to 34pc a year later . |
| 13 | They would n't of gone in the first place . |
| 14 | If you only want the bloody music , whe I , what 's the point of taping in the first place ! |
| 15 | " The results suggest , however , that a significant part of warming in the last century is not greenhouse-related " , he commented . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |