Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " 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 | The use of herbs during the twentieth century had dwindled so much before their present popularity that it had been reduced to the culinary few , such as parsley and mint , with adventurous cooks experimenting with chives , sage and thyme . |
| 16 | The Domesday Book gives a good indication of the status of certain places as caputs at the heads of estates in the eleventh century . |
| 17 | Time zero is the time of admission to the first hospital . |
| 18 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 19 | I was lucky to be given a great deal of freedom with the first draft . |
| 20 | The aim of this research is to investigate the historical commitment of both managements and workers to this system despite a large number of attempts before the second world war to adopt alternative reward structures in industry . |
| 21 | of marking-tape for the next upright . |
| 22 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it signed a number of contracts during the first quarter of 1993 totalling $30m for AXE digital switching kit to extend the public telecommunications network in Liaoning Province , Peoples Republic of China . |
| 23 | OIL production by member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries dropped 900,000 barrels a day to 23.5m last month but remains well above the cartel 's target level of 22.9m for the first half , the International Energy Agency has said . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Brundle was out of luck for the second race running . |
| 26 | It is said that the original Shorthorn ( as a British type rather than as a general term for short horned cattle ) was being bred by the Dukes of Northumberland in the sixteenth century and was probably descended from a mixture of red Anglo-Saxon cattle with red and white Dutch ‘ Hollanders ’ and ‘ Zeelands ’ that are typified in the Paul Potter painting , The Young Bull . |
| 27 | The history of Austro-Hungary through the nineteenth century is one of alteration between repression and compromise in its effort to maintain the fabric of the empire against its increasingly centrifugal tendencies . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For those unemployed and with a family , the added worry of responsibility for the next generation must be bewildering . |
| 30 | Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov about the " violation of Moldova 's airspace " by the CIS airforce , and requested measures to ensure the " non-interference of servicemen of the 14th Army in Moldova 's internal affairs " . |