Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a thrilling final-set victory , the 43-year-old architect said : ‘ I had a bit of luck to win the third set and after Ian took the fourth I thought I would lose . ’ |
| 2 | In 1985 , however , the Ministry of Agriculture took a first step towards meeting environmentalists ' objections , with a new ‘ Guidance for Drainage Authorities ’ on investment appraisal . |
| 3 | And , to the best of our knowledge , that is still valid though er of course to answer the second part of your question , are they fully locked in . |
| 4 | In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War . |
| 5 | He was among 100 prisoners granted a remission of sentence to mark the 10th anniversary of Kolingba 's taking office . |
| 6 | The combination of a 10 per cent rate of interest with a £67.5 million level of income represents a second point on the LM curve , plotted as point D in graph ( d ) . |
| 7 | Initialisation involves a change of handshape to represent the first letter of the English translation of the sign ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | He wrote a letter dated 20th February , 1842 , to Schwabe , his publisher in Dusseldorf saying that ‘ I have now after 18 months of work finished the sixth edition of my Organon , the most nearly perfect of all . ’ |
| 9 | This is commonly blamed on a prolonged drought during the amelioration of climate following the last glaciation . |
| 10 | Shellac records were simply too fragile to be posted ; so the special circumstances of war justified the first vinyl records . |
| 11 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 12 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 13 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 14 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 15 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 16 | In 1987 Conservative ministers boasted of their success while still claiming that the conquest of inflation remained the first objective of policy . |
| 17 | In icy American logging camps it was common for the cook to detonate small amounts of dynamite to cook the first meal of the day , which brought a whole new meaning to bangers for breakfast . |
| 18 | The long line of hedge bordering the next field was a good fifty yards away . |
| 19 | For the Nationalists , it was an offensive war of attrition to eradicate every last vestige of liberal democracy , in which they were winning all the way . |
| 20 | The King James translation of the Book of Genesis renders the first line as In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth , confident that prior to God there was nothing , that Yahweh created the universe ex nihilo . |
| 21 | Another aspect of routinisation reveals a third set of factors : the need for authoritative opinion . |
| 22 | It is therefore extremely encouraging that , only this morning , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State took the 250,000th call on the single market hotline — and he could give the answer to the caller 's question . |
| 23 | In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge . |
| 24 | Has the Secretary of State read the last sentence of the Cardiff Business school report , which states : " If as we are led to believe , Wales is drawing on a new era , nobody has informed Mountain Ash about it . " ? |
| 25 | A SERVICE OF OBSERVANCE TO MARK THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UN CONVENTION RELATING TO THE STATUS OF REFUGEES |
| 26 | However , more recently , in Eurocopy plc v Teasdale , reported in the journal PLC in November 1991 , the Court of Appeal upheld a first instance decision , and dismissed an application to strike out a defence , that in connection with a sale and purchase agreement , the actual knowledge of the purchaser might still be a defence to a claim for breach of warranty notwithstanding a clause in the sale and purchase agreement which provided that no actual or constructive knowledge on the part of the purchaser would prejudice a claim . |
| 27 | The Commission and the member states can draft as many biblical texts as they like , but the European Court of Justice has the last word and provides us with the ultimate truth . |
| 28 | The model is meant to describe what operations the speaker performs upon each level of representation to generate the next level . |
| 29 | Once the residue left after absorption of foodstuff reaches the last part of the gut , the desire to defecate results . |