Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 32 | Over 60 trade stands will now be housed indoors alongside the new arena — ideal for the first of your Christmas shopping ! |
| 33 | For the first of these ( bar 1 ) , hold the C chord I 've diagrammed : press the tremolo arm to lower the C note ( string 5 , fret 3 ) to a B ( equivalent to fingering at fret 2 , and the reason I 've written ‘ 2 ’ in the tab as the lead-in . |
| 34 | The next sizeable raid occurred on 5 March , and on this occasion 7/JG 26 was to enjoy some reinforcement for the first of two occasions . |
| 35 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 36 | On a recent flight over the area a crane was to be seen alongside the existing hangars , and the timber-framing for the first of the new houses was already taking shape . |
| 37 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 38 | Now she waited , husbanding strength for the first of many visitors . |
| 39 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 40 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Labs — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 41 | So , while for the first of these two failures Owen may be criticised , for the second he must be excused . |
| 42 | As for the first of these concepts , we have seen that to a considerable extent in most schools the project achieved the objective of broadly based participation in devising curriculum-related library plans . |
| 43 | As dialogue continues down on the floor the Inlay Operator prepares for the first of his ‘ big moments ’ ; the establishing shot of the city as seen by the time-travellers . |
| 44 | The minute for the first of April begins " In the spring of the present year a few friends convened themselves together for the purpose of considering the possibility of opening a News & Reading Room . " |
| 45 | Her hands were shaking as she reached for the first of the envelopes . |
| 46 | During the first week of December 1986 , Donleavy came down to the Windfrey hotel at River Chase , Alabama , just south of Birmingham , for the first of several briefing sessions . |
| 47 | The contract for the first of these smaller cutters was given to Brooke Marine Shipyard at Lowestoft . |
| 48 | I also think it 's quite er symbolic that we 're commemorating both the birth of the new public service union , UNISON , for the first of July , and also on Monday the forty fifth anniversary of the N H S. |
| 49 | Because of this , my aunt and I returned home and ate before setting off for the first of our two destinations . |
| 50 | The 26-year-old right back , capped for the only time two years ago , increases to 26 the squad that manager Graham Taylor expects to fly out to Katowice next Thursday for the first of the Group Two qualifiers next Saturday . |
| 51 | Success for Bonallack was not to be long delayed , for in 1961 he won the championship for the first of what was to be five times , the fifth being at Royal Co Down in 1970 , the last occasion on which it was held in Northern Ireland . |
| 52 | Fama and MacBeth also found that the intercept ( ) was significantly different from the risk free rate for the entire period and for the first of the sub-periods , which tends to lend support to the zero-beta version of the CAPM rather than the risk-free rate variant . |
| 53 | Two years later a new Diploma in Professional Studies in Education was approved , for the first of which — in health education — guidelines were approved in December 1977 . |
| 54 | The American Psychiatric Association has chosen eating disorders for the first of its series of detailed practice guidelines , derived from the literature and from a consensus of expert reviewers , to assist doctors in clinical decision making . |
| 55 | The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances . |
| 56 | The situation there is that the , there 're , if you have double rooms as doubles then there would be , we do have a relatively low occupancy but the committee had decided to move towards double rooms being used as single occupancy only and on the , I 've got the latest figures for the first of January in front of me just by ch really just by chance |
| 57 | As a matter of urgency I think chairman , be because if we 're going to apply , we need to apply for the first of April |
| 58 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 59 | But for the first of the month you have these two letters E R. |
| 60 | Erm I think accounts are gon na be pushed f pushed for the first of March . |