Example sentences of "[det] of the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As half of the first full-time two man drug squad in the North-East of England , I was tasked with defining and dealing with the new social aberration of ‘ flower power ’ , ‘ the counter culture ’ , and the ‘ psychedelic trip ’ . |
| 2 | Nearly half of the first papers derived from Ph D research in the present study are jointly authored , and in nearly half of these cases , the thesis author is not the first author . |
| 3 | Half of the first rebleeds occurred within 12 months of initiation of sclerotherapy . |
| 4 | Since Britannia ‘ ruled the waves ’ for at least half of the 19th century and for the early part of the 20th century , and since profitable shipping was of paramount British national interest , British legislators and judges were sympathetic to the British carriers ' use of extremely broad disclaimers . |
| 5 | ‘ What sort of a day have you had ? ’ she asked him lightly , and spent the first course and half of the second in hearing how he did n't think he was giving so much concentration to his job as he should just lately . |
| 6 | But I reckon the company has made CPP losses in more than half of the last 15 years . |
| 7 | However , one will do well to reflect on the following remark of Bentham ( of which some of the second part of this work might be seen as an endorsement ) . |
| 8 | The experiences of some of the Second World ( communist ) countries , those who had escaped from the grip of global capitalism , particularly the Soviet Union and then China , seemed to lend support to the argument . |
| 9 | Collegians had a great season last time out , but coach Brian Carruth 's entire forward line is pregnant which means early chances for some of the Second XI who won the All Ireland Costley Cup . |
| 10 | Arthur was saying some of the second hand stuff at Bromley High is quite good . |
| 11 | No matter how bad the weather , you can always find some sheltered stretches , and there is normally the bonus of seeing some of the first swallows and martins of the year as well . |
| 12 | With a dry wit and an infectious Brooklyn drawl , Karen , as part of the Flatbush-based Soulboys group of club-runners , was responsible for some of the first illegal parties in New York , as well as having the much-coveted job of doorperson at various Manhattan clubs . |
| 13 | When Spurgeon opened Pastor 's College in 1856 some of the first pupils were illiterate but he insisted that his aim was to equip ‘ a class of ministers who will not aim at lofty scholarship , but at the winning of souls — men of the people ’ . |
| 14 | Yet the same writer lamented that some of the first students ‘ in many cases alienated the more thoughtful minds from the denomination ’ . |
| 15 | Some of the first references are to a fulling mill , known during the latter part of the 17th century , as Fields Mill . |
| 16 | Some of the first life course sociologists assumed that this gradual ageing process was also socially unidirectional , towards ‘ disengagement ’ , as if in acceptance that life itself was ebbing away . |
| 17 | They were some of the first cars to be withdrawn when the fleet was modernised , and they were scrapped in 1934 . |
| 18 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 19 | Thus , in some of my own research into theatre audiences , at a time when virtually nothing was known about who goes to the theatre , some of the first surveys I carried out were concerned with eliciting data on people 's age , education , social class , who they went with , how they heard about the play , and so on . |
| 20 | This school was to have been patronised by some of the first noblemen and gentlemen of the country , and Clark had the fullest assurance that the government would aid and support his venture . |
| 21 | As we drive from mine to exhausted mine I chat with some of the first group about doing geology . |
| 22 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 23 | [ since ] the aim of achieving a strong competitive position in international markets , or at least the concern not to be at a disadvantage in comparison with competitors in other countries was one of the chief arguments advanced by some of the first employers ' associations against proposals for social reforms through protective labour and social legislation . |
| 24 | Atrium Technologies Inc , Austin , Texas , the new start-up by Tivoli Systems founder Bob Fabbio ( UX No 419 , is going to preview its never-before-seen software packages this week at ComNet , some of the first stuff built for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment , DCE . |
| 25 | Bull has already revealed details of its Integrated Systems Management effort , based around the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , and is now working on some of the first practical applications to run on top . |
| 26 | It is possible Minton also knew that the house was built on the site of former warehouses where some of the first slaves brought to Britain were unloaded and where many died . |
| 27 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
| 28 | ROGER GANN FASTENS HIS SEATBELT AND TESTS SOME OF THE FIRST 33MHz PCs TO STORM ONTO THE SCENE . |
| 29 | Some of the first newly-planned settlements were established by Victorian industrialists themselves , but a long process of government legislation culminated in the passing , between 1945 and 1950 , of comprehensive Town and Country Planning legislation , including provision for New Towns and National Parks but also a characteristically negative policy toward the expansion of cities themselves . |
| 30 | Some of the first of these were made by a pupil of McConnell 's , Allan Jacobson , in Los Angeles , who announced in 1965 that if he trained rats to approach the food dispenser of their cage when a light flashed or a clicking sound was made , then killed the animals , extracted the RNA from their brains and injected it into the gut cavity of untrained animals , these now tended to approach the dispenser when the appropriate stimulus — click or light — was given , even though the dispenser was now empty of food and the animals received no reward . |