Example sentences of "[adv prt] of the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tamar had allowed Victoria to stay up late to watch the leading in of the last load , which was a ritual joined in by all the estate workers . |
| 2 | Horror stories abound , originally fuelled by the publication of Ruth Harrison 's Animal Machines ( 1964 ) , a book which in Britain directly influenced the setting up of the first parliamentary inquiry into the new methods of animal husbandry under the chairmanship of F.W.R. Brambell . |
| 3 | The trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in 1876 for republishing one of Knowlton 's pamphlets gave the birth-control movement wide publicity and created the demand for more information , and led to the setting up of the first organisation to campaign on birth control , the Malthusian League . |
| 4 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
| 5 | Under these conditions the human observer sees a chevron , made up of two of the gratings , moving against a background made up of the third . |
| 6 | I suppose this could be a flare up of the last one . |
| 7 | It 's like throwing fookin' people 's briefcases out of the fifth floor at school . |
| 8 | FOR reasons that go deep into its past , Hungary has not done well out of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | The three-time world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday lost vital points when she was ruled out of the seventh race after her board broke . |
| 10 | Jim is a hard hitting sort of individual who knows where he is going in racing and he has brought Down Royal , I feel , out of the 17th century into the 20th — not quite the 21st — in a matter of a couple of years . |
| 11 | All that remains now is for the draw , which will be made in the Rome Sports Palace late this afternoon , to avoid such minor irritations as Holland joining England in Sardinia , thereby doubling the security problem ; Scotland renewing hostilities with Uruguay , whom they have refused to meet in friendlies since the 1986 World Cup ; and Austria playing West Germany , which would revive memories of the cynical conspiracy in 1982 which froze Algeria out of the second phase . |
| 12 | Hull moved out of the Second Division relegation zone for the first time since mid-September with a 2-1 win over Plymouth last night — their fourth win in their last six games and their third successive victory under the new manager Stan Ternant . |
| 13 | American driver Ross Cheever , winner of the first race of the series , went out of the second round event after tangling with German Volker Weidler , also in a Reynard . |
| 14 | Vivien 's good idea became a big-budget shambles , and Spellbound seemed to be eased out of the second series . |
| 15 | He listened to Nigel Cramer for several minutes , nodded and gave his own orders to the dozen men who had clambered out of the second and third helicopters . |
| 16 | Yesterday he left out of the second Test against the West Indies his second humiliation of the winter after being 12th man for the first Test . |
| 17 | She was tired of kneeling , listening to their voices droning on : ‘ Our Father who art in heaven , hallowed be Thy name ’ , and ‘ Hail Mary , full of grace ’ , which was all she could make out of the second bit , because what followed was just a mumble . |
| 18 | What would they do out of the second pizza ? |
| 19 | Right you 'd get two twelfths out of the second pizza as well there 's another two twelfths so you 'd have four twelfths all together . |
| 20 | Now what 's the chance , that we 'll get a blue out of the first bag , and a blue out of the second bag ? |
| 21 | So you 're saying , there 's more chance of getting the blue out of out of the second , than there is of just |
| 22 | Pluralists agree with Mills that it is a post-war phenomena and arises due to the United States ' need to take on a new world role The military fill the political vacuum which exists in foreign policy-making , and this brings them into close contact with the industrial firms which prospered out of the Second World War . |
| 23 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 24 | I would n't call last season debacle making the right decisions , my own personal opinion of him is that he was the right manager to get us out of the second divsion , but I feel that given the players and money avail able to him he maybe could have done better . |
| 25 | Because the second year where no costs come out of the second year 's er payment that 's our that 's where we make our money . |
| 26 | We do n't want any costs to come out of the second year cos that 's where we make our profit . |
| 27 | Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn . |
| 28 | Injured Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis has ruled himself out of the second round second leg leaving his side woefully short of striking cover as they attempt to recover a 3-1 first leg deficit . |
| 29 | And it was only after John had given up playing that Palace at last fell out of the 1st Division , so it was only right that in September 1974 the club gave him a richly deserved Testimonial for his magnificent services . |
| 30 | Moore 's England props , Paul Rendall and Jeff Probyn , belatedly return for Wasps , at home to Blackheath , after being left out of the first two First Division games . |