Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 32 | In April 1945 , while the division was stationed near Graz under the command of the SS Gen Freytag , it was joined from Berlin by Gen Pavel Shandruk , President of the German-sponsored Ukrainian National Committee and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian National Army ( of which the 1st Ukrainian Division was the most important component ) . |
| 33 | But it was Golani 's night , even when hidden by scores that sprawled along a row of eight music stands , of which the eighth always stayed empty — just another of those little unexplained things . |
| 34 | Lucky , too , are children whose path through the complexities of the Old Testament can be made so comparatively straight by The Children 's Bible in 365 Stories , of which the third pack is now available for both Old Testament ( TS379 — two cassettes ; 2 hours 28 minutes ) and New Testament ( TS383 — two cassettes ; 2 hours 11 minutes ) . |
| 35 | Thus the offensive , in support of which the last series of raids by the SAS had been carried out , was a failure . |
| 36 | A good example from the field of librarianship is the Library Association 's series British librarianship and information work , of which the last edition covered the years 1981–5 . |
| 37 | of which the last began : |
| 38 | Over those years he produced another serenata , Il rè pastore ( King as Shepherd ) , to a text by the famous Italian poet Pietro Metastasio ( whose texts were set to music countless times all over Europe by the best composers of the time ) for a state visit by Archduke Maximilian Franz ; another serenade ( K.204 ) written for the traditional end-of-term jollities at the university ; and several violin concertos , of which the last three ( in G , D and A major ) are standard repertoire today . |
| 39 | Artaria & Co published the six ‘ Haydn ’ quartets , of which the last three were K.458 in B flat , known as the ‘ Hunt ’ because of its ‘ hunting-style finale ; K.464 in A , and K.465 in C , the remarkable ‘ Dissonance ’ Quartet , so-called because of its intensely chromatic slow introduction . |
| 40 | Units are loosely linked by a theme in groups of six , of which the last is always a reading unit . |
| 41 | The unc algorithm resolves A into the product unc as above , and then multiplies the factors in reverse order to obtain a new matrix B. Since unc and then unc is a similar transform of A. B is , in general , a fully populated matrix of which the last column is that of R1 ( thus A14 reappears in B ) and the last row that of L1 multiplied by x44 . |
| 42 | The programme concluded with a snatch of birdsong , a low trill , repeated several times before dwindling into silence ; this , the presenter announced , was the song of the dusky seaside sparrow , a species of which the last survivor had died a few days before in its aviary at Disney World in Florida . |
| 43 | Of which the last is bravery , for he knows |
| 44 | Perhaps the most successful rendering was that of the fifth poem of ‘ Landscapes ’ , entitled ‘ Cape Ann ’ , which he read with great gusto and of which the last line ‘ The palaver is finished ’ produced a ripple of pleasure . |
| 45 | The simplest transfer of control instruction is , of course , the unconditional jump or unconditional branch , after the execution of which the next instruction is taken from the store address specified in the jump instruction . |
| 46 | It was suggested that as principal it had knowledge of whatever the first bank did as its agent . |
| 47 | Yet there are certain advantages with the modern orchestra ; the violin section , for example , which often fails in an ‘ authentic ’ set-up to do justice to the importance of what the first violins , in particular , have to say . |
| 48 | Most of what the first Europeans saw as original vegetation in north-eastern North America was manipulated regrowth . |
| 49 | The question now is whether Mr Clinton is going to be forward-looking ; to give shape to a sense of what the next American Dream , and what America 's post-cold-war role , could be . |
| 50 | She licked her dry lips , afraid of what the next few minutes would reveal . |
| 51 | Three of the news stories or feature articles should be of 350 words or more and one should give a pupils ' view of what the next Government 's education policies should be . |
| 52 | Each entry should include ten news stories or features , three of which should be 350 words or more with one giving a pupils ' view of what the next government 's policies should be . |
| 53 | On a postcard — no letters please — we would like your idea of what the last thoughts of the erk were — plus of course your name and address . |
| 54 | Finally , it is worth mentioning the possibility that the traditional sadness and dejection with which the first crops were cut in Egypt , or the seed was sown in Greece and elsewhere originates in the same unconscious depressive complex . |
| 55 | A start state , state 0 , must always be included , into which the first version of a module following the model will enter . |
| 56 | We had moored off a deserted cay rimmed with a beach of clear sand above which the first stars were pricking the warm sky , while , beneath Wavebreaker 's bimini cover , half-moon ice cubes clinked in crystal glasses . |
| 57 | By a consent order dated 1 July 1988 the proceedings against the second defendant were stayed , pursuant to an agreement between the plaintiff and the second defendant , entered into by the second defendant in ignorance of the plaintiff 's agreement with the first defendant , under which the second defendant paid the plaintiff £18,000 and costs . |
| 58 | We ca n't use the actual mark , or quality of answere as the standard , we must stick with whatever the 50th child gets . |
| 59 | Article 36 specifies no time within which the third party must make its dissent known , nor is there any indication of the status of that right in the period between its inclusion in a treaty and any dissent to it . |
| 60 | When asked for the authority upon which the second of these propositions was based , he replied that it was to be found in section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , and in the principles stated by the majority of the House of Lords in Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 . |