Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the mixed card on St Patrick 's Day we are back to an all National Hunt affair and the main race , the Sportsman Hunter Chase , may go to Bajan Blues who almost brought off the shock defeat of Matt Reid at the last meeting . |
| 2 | This shift led to the return in 1892 of Keir Hardie as the first independent labour MP , and in 1898 of the first labour council in British electoral history . |
| 3 | As we experience Act I , Scene i , of King Lear for the first time , it may not be easy to see that Cordelia is right , the others wrong . |
| 4 | There is reason to associate this with the Minister of King Zoser of the Third Dynasty known as Imhotep , later deified as the Father of Egyptian science . |
| 5 | The earliest and most famous of these deified humans was Imhotep , the chief minister of King Djoser of the Third Dynasty ( about 2670 BC ) . |
| 6 | Derby boss Arthur Cox had no complaints about the sending off of Jason Kavanagh in the 66th minute . |
| 7 | The development of the brilliant cut supposedly under the patronage of Cardinal Mazarin during the seventeenth century intensified the effect of diamonds , but entailed a greater loss . |
| 8 | Not to be outdone , Liverpool defender Steve Staunton capably filled the striking boots of Ian Rush for the second half , scoring all three goals in their 3-0 win over Wigan for an 8-2 aggregate result . |
| 9 | By the time they had reached the end of Jefferson Street for the first time , the US Grand Prix was all over . |
| 10 | He cleaned up in the 12th frame on his way to a 9–4 defeat of Ken Doherty in the third round of the UK Championship at Preston . |
| 11 | On their way up to their office in the attic , therefore , Ian and Theodora had to pass the open doors of the offices of the Dean and the Archdeacon on the ground floor , and that of Canon Wheeler on the first . |
| 12 | The first part of the walk kicks off up a private road gliding beneath a fabulous railway viaduct , the very one from which I had gazed in my bike-less train down the length of Loch Shiel for the first time some ten years earlier . |
| 13 | It is basically a twelfth-century building , though sadly damaged later on by the iconoclastic Protestants of Jeanne d'Albret in the sixteenth century , and by the fanatical rationalists of the French Revolution who converted it into one of their Temples of Reason . |
| 14 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 15 | Michael Schumacher was fifth fastest in his Camel Benetton Ford and shares the third row of the grid with Jean Alesi 's Ferrari F92A , ahead of Martin Brundle in the second Benetton and Pierluigi Martini 's Dallara Ferrari . |
| 16 | The former established themselves on the margins of Lake Texcoco in the fourteenth century . |
| 17 | The closest it came was during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | Dorset missed the services of Lee Sabin for the first two rounds . |
| 19 | The family of Bishop Eadnoth of Dorchester , who had been both monk and abbot of Ramsey , and whose rich brother gave land to the monastery , was possibly allied with that of Æthelstan Half-King , the powerful ealdorman of East Anglia in the mid-tenth century , whose sons were great patrons of Ramsey . |
| 20 | Long Melford is one of the wool churches that commemorate the wealth of East Anglia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 21 | Heaven knows whether he has it in him to take on the legacy of Melvyn Bragg in the 21st century , but he will give Artrageous ! the hip image a youth-oriented arts programme needs to convey . |
| 22 | : WHEN Ian Smith caught Graham Gooch off the bowling of Danny Morrison in the first Test match last winter he broke a New Zealand wicketkeeping record which had stood for 45 years . |
| 23 | Beattie easily got the better of Kevin Schwantz on the second lap , leaving the Lucky Strike Suzuki rider from Texas with a tough job to keep his own team-mate Doug Chandler at bay . |
| 24 | Right , well er , we 've some birthdays this week there 's er Miss on the fifth today she is n't here , Mrs on the sixth , Mrs is on the sixth and Mrs of Gasworthy Close on the seventh . |
| 25 | Over 400,000 people per year visit the Imperial War Museum at Duxford , Cambridgeshire , where , in hangar No 3 , stands a B–17G Flying Fortress , faithfully reproduced in the colours and markings of Mary Alice of the 615th Squadron , 401st Bomb Group . |
| 26 | The loss of Mike Gatting with the last ball on Sunday night was crucial , because Mike is such a good player of leg spin . |
| 27 | The fair was known as Barnaby Fair as it was held on the old Feast of St Barnabas on the 22nd June ; more recently it has been held on the Tuesday nearest this date . |
| 28 | The Rule of St Benedict of the sixth century was a code written by Benedict for the use of his own monks . |
| 29 | The studies of Ernst Engel in the nineteenth century , led to the conclusion that after income has risen beyond a certain level , there is a decrease in the percentage of total income that is spent on food . |
| 30 | The objective in 1993 is to make our budget , which is achievable providing we stop scoring own goals as we have done in th Northern Area of Wimpey Asphalt and the Eastern Area of Wimpey Hobbs over the last two years . |