Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the [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 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | From 1877 , to receive a little more income , the School accepted School Board Foundationers , of whom the first was John Dunville . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Anglesey meanwhile , have two debutantes in their line-up one of them the first RAF Valley player to be selected for a decade . |
| 16 | At present there are over 500 contributing institutions , of which the second defendant is one . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There are 7–8 simple glassy arm spines of which the second dorsalmost is the longest , up to 3 arm segments long . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Suppose , for example , you are employed for three years , of which the first is to be spent abroad and the other two in Great Britain . |
| 22 | These radial coaches , of which the first was built in 1882 , were 42ft long over bodies , with a total wheel base of 32ft ; the end pair of wheels were 8ft centre to centre and 1 6ft between the centres of the middle wheels . |
| 23 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 24 | There are essentially two reasons , of which the first is the munificence of W. C. T. 's London cousins . |
| 25 | Even the recipe for George Washington 's mother 's gingerbread allegedly found " in an old worn cookery book " dated 1784 , of which the first item on the list of ingredients is ½ cup of margarine , could be said to be honest in the sense that it is candidly admitted that margarine is what is actually now used in the kitchens at Claverton Manor , the American Museum near Bath where both the gingerbread and the leaflet giving the recipe are purveyed to the public . |
| 26 | All of these activities meant that he could not get on with his new play , of which the first two scenes were already drafted and which he had planned , tentatively , to finish in time for the Edinburgh Festival of 1952 . |
| 27 | Henry ( 1947–48 ) and ferris ( 1947 ) consider that the head comprises six segments , of which the first three give rise ti the labrum , the clypeus plus hypopharynx , and an oculo-antennal region broadly equivalent to the frons . |
| 28 | The radius ( R ) is typically 5-branched : its main stem is convex and divides into two , of which the first branch ( R1 ) passes directly to the wing-margin : the second branch or radial sector ( Rs ) is concave and divides into four veins ( R2 to R5 ) . |
| 29 | Three important matters remain , of which the first has to do with the things we discriminate within consciousness-the parts , segments , or passages of consciousness , as distinct from subject and contents . |
| 30 | Taking his cue from yet another of Austin 's philosophical essays , the famous and often reprinted ‘ A plea for excuses ’ , Goffmann distinguishes various forms of remedial ritual , of which the first is the so-called account . |