Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got it when Inzamam was short of speed returning for a second run , and Malcolm 's throw from third man was slickly relayed by Russell to the bowler 's end . |
| 2 | Well , at last some good news on the jobs front , with the number of people out of work falling for the second month running . |
| 3 | However , apart from these demonstrations and an outbreak of panic buying in the last days of March , the public response to the second stage of price liberalization was muted , in marked contrast to the street protests which had greeted the first state in November 1990 [ see p. 37866 ] . |
| 4 | The private sector has , in fact , been struggling with the intricacies of inflation accounting for the last 25 years and have , by and large , abandoned the idea as being too difficult . |
| 5 | On offer are paintings , drawings and works of art ranging from the seventeenth to the 20th centuries . |
| 6 | Demonstrations resumed in University Square on the evening of Aug. 22 when protesters staged a six-hour occupation , chanting anti-government slogans and complaints about food shortages ( especially the reintroduction earlier that day of sugar rationing for the first time since the December 1989 revolution ) . |
| 7 | The original breeding population of this raptore in Sussex was exterminated in the interests of game preserving during the 19th century , breeding being last recorded in Ashdown Forest in 1882 . |
| 8 | She begins with a tantalisingly brief resume of the resurgence of Murano glassmaking in the mid-nineteenth century , that fascinating period , full of pioneers in the re-discovery and re-invention of ancient techniques from both Roman and Renaissance glass . |
| 9 | McRae and Cairncross ( 1984,2 ) argue that the growth of the City originated in the large volume of government borrowing in the eighteenth century to pay for Britain 's foreign wars ; the Industrial Revolution took place almost independently of the City , which thereby showed that it perhaps could survive on its financial wits as a major service centre . |
| 10 | A commentary on the effect of Government planning in the last few years is found in the recent report of the Working Party on the Building Industry : ‘ The producers of building materials … found that their assessment of the demand for their goods was liable to be upset by sudden changes of policy which they could not possibly foresee . ’ |
| 11 | The significance of the turnpike system was that , eventually , in the hands of concerned trustees , it could provide the financial means of employing the talents of a generation of road builders who pioneered techniques which remained the basis of road making into the twentieth century . |
| 12 | The increased use of project financing in the last twenty years can be attributed to two factors — increased capital investment needs and economic risks . |
| 13 | Numerous food scares and the dramatic rise in reported cases of food poisoning over the last few years , plus the need to comply with European Community requirements led to the Food Safety Bill , now nearly two years old . |
| 14 | Valuable insight into this question has been gained in another project entitled ‘ Styles and strategies of information handling in the sixth form ’ . |
| 15 | The early charters of the dukes of Gascony dating from the tenth and eleventh centuries make no mention in their dating clauses of the reigning king of France , and the dukes certainly possessed such rights as the striking of coins . |