Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 3 | Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 . |
| 4 | In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases . |
| 5 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 6 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 7 | ( The Pentateuch or the Torah is the Law of Moses found in the first five books of the Old Testament . ) |
| 8 | Excitement mounted ; in her memoirs Princess Marie Louise quotes Sir Edwin Lutyens as saying , ‘ Let us devise and design for all time something which will enable future generations to see how a king and queen of England lived in the twentieth century , and what authors , artists and craftsmen of note there were during their reign . ’ |
| 9 | For example , McCullough cites the failure of Sibelius to compose for the last 20 years of his life as in part due to his discomfort at the rise of a genre of music with which he felt no affinity . |
| 10 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 11 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | The only attempt to revive the Slav kingdom of Samo , which Ottokar of Bohemia made in the thirteenth century , was decisively crushed by the Holy Roman Emperor at the battle of Marchfeld ( 1278 ) . |
| 13 | The Yugoslavian authorities announced on Feb. 20 that Army units stationed in the province of Kosovo had for the first time been given specific orders to quell a renewed wave of unrest among ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 14 | But when the City of London emerged as the last centre of strength for the Whig opponents of royal policy at the beginning of the 1680s , it was asked by a writ of quo warranto to show that it was entitled to all the powers it had been exercising . |