Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May the force be with you : West Indies ' bowling heroes Curtly Ambrose ( left ) , who had match figures of 8–81 , and Courtney Walsh , whose spell of 11–7–8–4 on the last morning was decisive . |
| 2 | WALES captain Andrew Puddle led by example in his side 's six-wicket Minor Counties win over Dorset at Cherborne School — a victory that did n't look possible at the start of play on the second day . |
| 3 | New Zealand were within 33 runs of their first home Test victory in three years at close of play on the fourth day against Australia in Auckland . |
| 4 | But Wednesday took the lead against the run of play in the 27th minute . |
| 5 | There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . |
| 6 | Manager Brian Kettle has been having talks with several players with a view to signings and is hopeful of progress within the next week . |
| 7 | Consider the resolution of the pronoun for each choice of verb in the second sentence of |
| 8 | On 31 July , he again signalled his frustrations about lack of support from the Eighth Army to the Deputy Director of Operations : ‘ As impossible function more than 20% of capacity under existing arrangement with army , I suggest that L detachment comes under temporary R.A.F. control . |
| 9 | One national newspaper is offering a bottle of champagne for the first reader who can give more information about Norma 's former boyfriend . |
| 10 | One of the major findings of criminology in the last decade has been the importance of repeat victimisation as a contributor to the overall crime rate . |
| 11 | The Act stated that other schemes could be formed from the schedule of twelve by advancing or postponing the day of payment of the first instalment , provided that the first payment was not made sooner than the eleventh day , and that not more than one penny per pound was added to the interest for every thirteen days of such postponement . |
| 12 | Pressnell suggests that only a brilliant speech by Keynes prevented its rejection in the Lords.The loan was damaging to British pride , while among its terms the insistence on sterling convertibility within a year of payment of the first instalment was particularly ominous . |
| 13 | A time capsule containing personal messages of hope for the next generation will be buried during closing ceremonies . |
| 14 | It 's no more astonishing than was the growth of industrialisation in the first place . |
| 15 | Time zero is the time of admission to the first hospital . |
| 16 | I was lucky to be given a great deal of freedom with the first draft . |
| 17 | of marking-tape for the next upright . |
| 18 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 19 | To the left of the entrance , at the town end , is its most military aspect : a splendid keep , built of brick in the fourteenth century by Gaston Phoebus , a vainglorious , bad-tempered ( he killed his only son in an argument ) but also tasteful princeling who was an early ornament of the house of Foix-Béarn . |
| 20 | Brundle was out of luck for the second race running . |
| 21 | We , of the Rupert Bear generations , may not have retained our innocence but we surely have a duty to keep a sense of responsibility to the next generation . |
| 22 | For those unemployed and with a family , the added worry of responsibility for the next generation must be bewildering . |
| 23 | Evolution rather than revolution is also imposed by the British system of government , which has given the country twenty-one Ministers of Defence since the Second World War . |
| 24 | Thus they have provided evidence that helps to date the eruption of Thera ( modern Santorini ) which virtually destroyed the Minoan town of Akrotiri in the seventeenth century BC . |
| 25 | The latter reaction was clearly predominant in the writings of the men who toured the country writing reports for the Board of Agriculture in the last decade of the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | Cats ' alert : Fire caused at least £10,000 of damage to the first floor of a house in Pannal Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough last night . |
| 27 | Even the bookmakers lost faith in the world champion who began the event without the status of favourite for the first time in three years . |
| 28 | On top of that there could be time spent tutoring individual pupils with special needs before they had time to think of preparation for the next day . |
| 29 | Soviet officials.have denied that these treaties have prejudiced the pursuit of non-alignment by the Third World states involved . |
| 30 | For many years Soviet leaders have anticipated military-political and strategic benefits for the Soviet Union from the shift in the global ‘ correlation of forces ’ represented by the spread of non-alignment in the Third World . |