Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Most notably these have included , first , a concern with income distribution and the need to combat ‘ absolute ’ poverty , triggered by McNamara in 1973 ; and second , the need to finance the trade deficits , and consequent ‘ adjustment ’ , of the many African countries for whom the second oil price rise of 1979 was a near fatal blow . |
2 | Also here is the tomb of San Saccaria , the founder of the Barnabites for whom the first church was built . |
3 | It brought closer Home Office control and local authority subsidy to reformatories for children for whom the first resort of probation had either failed or was thought inappropriate . |
4 | Newry , for whom the next step in their evolution is to make an impression on the park as well as off it , proudly and quite rightly tout their immaculate facility as one of the major sporting successes in the district . |
5 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
6 | Most of them were refugees from East Africa living in substandard conditions and paying exorbitant rents ; for them a second income was desperately needed , and going on strike seemed a dangerous business . |
7 | When the cotton trade began to boom in the 1780s , Africa and Asia took between them a fifth of cotton goods exported , with Europe and America sharing the rest almost equally . |
8 | My father may well wish for me a second marriage , and to that end I must be at offer soon , and with a proper dowry . |
9 | Please reserve for me a sixteenth of a page space in the August issue of Folk Roots . |
10 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
11 | Exploratory talks were held in Beijing on in November and December [ see pp. 37860 ; 37818 ] , after which a first round of full normalization talks was held in Pyongyang in late January 1991 and a second in Tokyo in mid-March [ see p. 38098 ] . |
12 | This general outline story of the first Passover is called the Haggadah , after which the first part of the special Psalms for Passover are sung , known as the Hallel Psalms ( Psalms 112–13 ) . |
13 | But the vision was a long way off from Britain , for which the first two years of the Fifties were a continuation of wartime in civilian clothes . |
14 | The first and second layer spacing is obtained similarly from α c measured along directions for which the first and second layer atoms lie in the same place . |
15 | It is acceptable to use the same name as someone else if it is used for a different class of goods or services to the ones for which the first mark is registered . |
16 | A similar effect is seen with a shorter ( GC ) n insert [ ( GC ) 4 G ) , data not shown ] for which the first GC step is cut with lower efficiency . |
17 | This information has been taken from an article ( Saunders and Hon-Chung , 1984 ) in the Journal of Sales Management for which the first author was editor . |
18 | But the states for which the nineteenth century had been a success story , Germany and still more Great Britain , showed little or nothing of the desire for officially-backed dissemination of their culture and advertisement of their intellectual achievements which was so noticeable in France . |
19 | About 30 police of whom a third were armed surrounded the semi-detached house and evacuated neighbouring homes . |
20 | From 1877 , to receive a little more income , the School accepted School Board Foundationers , of whom the first was John Dunville . |
21 | or , William ( 1617–1701 ) , MP , was baptized at St Peter le Poer , London , 10 April 1617 , the eldest of the ten children ( five sons and five daughters ) , of whom the last three died in childhood , of Sir Henry Garraway [ q.v. ] , draper and lord mayor of London in 1639–40 , of Broad Street , London , and his wife Margaret , daughter of Henry Clitherow , merchant of London . |
22 | As I passed the two of them a second security guard came out of the doorway , holding a fat canvas money-bag . |
23 | Anglesey meanwhile , have two debutantes in their line-up one of them the first RAF Valley player to be selected for a decade . |
24 | The possessions of William Willesley of Leckhamstead , who died in 1521 , amounted to 57s. 9d. , of which a third represented the value of three mares , while the rest consisted of clothes and bedding . |
25 | Price Waterhouse surveyed 120 companies across Scotland of which a third were reckoned by the respondents to be appropriate for an MBO . |
26 | At present there are over 500 contributing institutions , of which the second defendant is one . |
27 | With these we may compare the more primitive diagrams of reactions set out in an earlier and elementary work , J. B. Scoffern 's Chemistry no Mystery , of which the second edition was published in 1848 . |
28 | There are 7–8 simple glassy arm spines of which the second dorsalmost is the longest , up to 3 arm segments long . |
29 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
30 | A rare approach to library use from the reader 's point of view is Frank Hatt 's The reading process , of which the first two chapters are essential reading . |