Example sentences of "[adv] the [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since you can pick up a no-frills steam iron for £40 or £50 I assumed it would take all the angst out of what is arguably the last of the genuinely ghastly domestic chores . |
| 2 | This is presumably the first in a series of large format paperbacks , with a fairly substantial text giving a concise summary of campaign history backed up by numerous black and white photographs from government sources ; and pages of coloured artwork mostly devoted to uniformed figures , with a few showing aircraft , armour and artillery . |
| 3 | Valmorel is effectively the fourth of the Three Valleys and is approached from Aigueblanche , just outside Moutiers . |
| 4 | Croatia , Slovenia , and Montenegro ( especially the first of these ) have large earnings from tourism , and all regions receive substantial amounts from remittances . |
| 5 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ George Foreman is the big fight for Lennox right now and the second defence could be against American Tommy Morrison — and perhaps the third against Frank Bruno in 1994 . ’ |
| 7 | Barnes was perhaps the last of the great illiterates , one case in the mould of Brindley . |
| 8 | So the thirtieth of September we 'll meet here again . |
| 9 | And so the 13th of August found me waving farewell to my friends and relations at King George V Dock , London . |
| 10 | The lake has no drainage system — excess water flows south to the marshes of Lake Poopo then evaporates into sand — so the last of Peru was a sodden plain fringed by snow-capped mountains . |
| 11 | So the next of the packages to wander through rejoices in the title Fun Pack — it 's obviously not a word processor , but it may just interest you a little . |
| 12 | By four o'clock the last of the mist had disappeared , even down in the valley below the cemetery . |
| 13 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 14 | And , if the situation with regard to individual psychological development and the evolution of culture is as I have represented it , then this is merely the first of many profound insights into the psychology of the ego — and perhaps most especially the superego — which can be expected but which were totally unobtainable as long as the individualistic fallacy blocked the way . |
| 15 | Encounters have been all the rage of this Italian election campaign — only the 12th since the republic 's first in 1948 . |
| 16 | This design/build contract is only the second of its kind to be let in Scotland and will be the first to be completed . |
| 17 | For example , they selected only the second of Byrd 's two four-part In Nomines , and neither of the models ( by Tye and Parsons ) that were evidently in Byrd 's mind when he composed his own pair . |
| 18 | This was the 10th occasion on which Congress had requested the appointment of a special prosecutor , and only the first on which it had been denied by an Attorney General . |
| 19 | Indeed , only the first of the seven features Doniol-Valcroze made was shown publicly in this country . |
| 20 | The initial change in Singer from shuddering zombie to desperate fighter for life is only the first of several metamorphoses — all caught with bravura vividness in Antony Sher 's phenomenally versatile performance . |
| 21 | In vitro fertilisation is only the first of a long line of reproductive technologies which may be developed in the future . |
| 22 | She had made four previous films : Shenandoah ( 1965 ) , The Singing Nun ( 1966 ) , Mr Buddwing ( 1966 ) and Games ( 1967 ) , but only the first of these had any merit . |
| 23 | I shall consider only the first of these here , since theory has no independent insular life , and in an order only partly chronological . |
| 24 | It was only the first of many devices that articulated party opinion against governments that the party theoretically supported . |
| 25 | If it is partitioned in the form unc where Y is of order ( n × p ) and unc square , of order p , ( 2 ) gives unc and only the first of these equations concerns us . |
| 26 | That 's right , if you 're organizing something like that and thinking about it from now , this is only the first of September , but |
| 27 | Quine offers as examples of single-word sentences ‘ Red ’ , ‘ Rabbit ’ and ‘ The tide is out ’ , though he says that taken with maximum strictness only the first of these would qualify ( Quine , 1960 , p. 44 ) . |
| 28 | There are a surprising number of villages between Arreau and Saint-Lary , but curiously , only the first of them , Cadéac , is on the river , all the others , on either side , standing somewhat back from it , towards the high ground , on terraces deposited there by the glacier . |
| 29 | I would like to add that it is only the first of many Platinum Hotels I intend to open throughout the world . ’ |
| 30 | Their Lordships agree that the mere existence or recital of a prior request is not sufficient in itself to convert what is prima facie past consideration into sufficient consideration in law to support a promise , as they have indicated , it is only the first of three necessary preconditions . |