Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wood is the most important commodity in international trade after gas and petrol , though most of it is used in the country of origin and much of it very close to source , being the only source of fuel for warmth and cooking for a third of the developing world . |
| 2 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 3 | Well might and wait till the second of July and get it all second hand . |
| 4 | Reynolds went back and found an electric flashlight by the boiler , and with this he began to stab and search through the first of the three rooms . |
| 5 | After assurances from US officials that the USA would continue to monitor the peace process , the FMLN demobilized its last contingent of around 2,000 combatants and turned in the last of its weapons ( including 55 surface-to-air missiles ) to the UN on Dec. 14 . |
| 6 | Of these Tom Cruise established himself as a powerful actor and major star in Rainman ( 1989 ) and Born on the Fourth of July ( 1990 ) . |
| 7 | Er the industry is responsible for half our fixed investment and accounts for a third of our manufacturing base . |
| 8 | So hopefully by the erm , I should be in a position by the next Council meeting , to report that we should be in a position to be up and running on the seventeenth of January . |
| 9 | The contrasting pattern characteristic of Wernicke 's aphasia and illustrated by the second of the patients of Funnell ( 1983 ) — whose attempt at a description of Figure 15 we also quoted earlier in this chapter — could be interpreted , in terms of Garrett 's model , as arising when there is a defect of the process which selects the required major lexical items from the lexicon . |
| 10 | She came as night-nurse on the second of May when I had a bad attack of sciatica and left on the fourteenth of June . |