Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Eighties ended with Mrs Thatcher being forced to concede increased pensions of £40 a week for widows of servicemen killed in the second world war . |
| 2 | The sale also includes a book containing some 145 watercolours and drawings of birds dating from the eighteenth century ( est. £100–120,000 ; $170–205,000 ) , a collection of natural history books , including John Gould 's ‘ Birds of paradise ’ ( est. £12–16,000 ; $20–27,000 ) and a section devoted to globes . |
| 3 | All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time . |
| 4 | However , the large number of castles erected in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ( Fig. 12 ) and the hundreds of new monasteries founded during the same period also became the administrative centres of their estates , even if only for brief periods . |
| 5 | By 1928 some of the Party was prepared for the radical change of tactics authorized by the Sixth Comintern Congress . |
| 6 | In addition , can a set of precepts developed in the fifth century BC still retain sufficient vitality and relevance to regulate the practice of medical wonders at the end of the twentieth century AD ? |
| 7 | About two thirds of infections occur in the first five days and more than half of these are apparent at birth . |
| 8 | Not for many years has the complacency of the legal profession about the state of our legal system been so severely jolted as by the series of lectures delivered in the last fortnight by Sir Leslie Scarman , a distinguished Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 9 | A survey by Jordans has found that the number of companies created in the first half of this year was 3.1% lower than the same period last year . |
| 10 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 11 | ( There are extremely instructive comparisons to be made between the films that make up Manvell 's ‘ Miscellany ’ and the ‘ pantheon ’ of directors listed in the first , 1962 , issue of Movie — the changes are an eloquently stark illustration of the massive reorientation of British film culture . ) |
| 12 | That was the beginning of a series of small books of prayers spread over the next fifty years , which were prayed first and then made available for others who felt the same spiritual need as myself . |
| 13 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 14 | When a group of individuals meets for the first time the process of group formation has begun . |
| 15 | East of Manningtree on the Stour estuary , this village possesses a fine range of maltings built in the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | I had visited it before , in 1988 , when it was open only to Berwyn , with a tantalising glimpse of rails disappearing round the next bend , so I was very keen to see what lay beyond . |
| 17 | The campaign to maximise the impact of the opposition parties ' votes in terms of seats won in the next election should begin now . |
| 18 | After studying the report , which reiterated the multitude of reservations expressed over the last few months and went on to accuse architect Dominique Perrault of having sacrificed functionalism for the sake of aesthetics , President Mitterrand accepted Perrault 's design , making only the most cosmetic of changes to appease the powerful lobby against the building . |
| 19 | Geometric arrays of holes appeared in the mid-nineteenth century — probably in parallel with the Victorian enthusiasm for patterned ‘ polychromatic ’ brickwork — and seem to be the most widespread type . |
| 20 | From a twentieth century perspective it is often difficult to admire either the management of plot and catastrophe or the sentiments of plays written in the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 21 | Much of the same reversal of priorities applies to the third question , ideas in literature . |
| 22 | I 've just sent a cable to the club : list of delegates expected for the next week 's visit — does that sound okay ? |
| 23 | This state of affairs persisted into the 19th Century , Serret , in 1849 , observing that " Algebra is , properly speaking , the analysis of equations . " |
| 24 | All manner of gatecrashers followed for the next twenty years . |
| 25 | Inglis ( 1965 ) summarised data which showed that among individuals with memory defects only the number of items recalled from the second ear differed from the number recalled by normal control subjects , whereas recall from the initial ear was similar for both groups . |
| 26 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 27 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |
| 28 | The complex is stabilized through a network of hydrogen-bonds extending from the last β -strand in the CH1 domain ( residues 209 to 216 ) to the second β -strand in protein G ( residues 16 to 22 ) . |
| 29 | The list of transitions produced by the first program is sorted ( numerically , by the first node number ) , and the node numbers are converted into edge numbers , by a simple nawk ( Aho et al , 1988 ) program . |
| 30 | Evidence suggests that after an initial second-century surge of activity in Normangate Field , the number of kilns declined in the third and fourth , as manufacture gave way to other activities and moved further afield to more convenient locations . |