Example sentences of "[vb base] the [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | TITLE-CHASING Orrell make the first of two ‘ do or die ’ league trips to London in nine days when they face Wasps at Sudbury today . |
| 2 | Both linguistic and legal grounds make the second of these hypotheses the more plausible : the response seems to be tailored ( drastically ) to fit the preceding enquiry , in which only subsequent debts are considered ; there is no reason why this trust clause should be thought invalid , as other texts confirm . |
| 3 | At Great Bedwyn we stop for welcome break and cheer the first of the singles through . |
| 4 | The rain eases as I head west ; I catch the last of a wide , bloody-looking sunset over Skye and the Kyles and the floodlights turning Eilean Donan 's grey stones green ; I make it to Strome in four hours twenty minutes from home , arriving just as the stars are coming out above in the purple spaces between the dark , heavy clouds . |
| 5 | announce the second of their Preliminary Badge scheme . |
| 6 | In this chapter we consider the first of these problems : the growth of public expenditure and the difficulties surrounding its control . |
| 7 | As we head back towards Heimæy I watch the last of the light tinkering with the wave-tops . |
| 8 | Open the first of April . |
| 9 | We 'll go out for a meal after the performance , ’ said her husband , slitting open the last of his letters . |
| 10 | ‘ I think we 'll have to wait until they notify the next of kin before they release that information . ’ |
| 11 | We negotiate the first of the infamous swans . |
| 12 | Add the last of the bourbon to the cloth , swathe the cake in it , then wrap the plastic film around the cloth . |
| 13 | Fireworks are what youngsters are waiting for all year round when they remember , remember the fifth of November . |
| 14 | At the Manor Ground they 'll remember ; remember the 3rd of November for some time . |
| 15 | Remember , remember the 5th of November |
| 16 | REMEMBER , remember the fourth of November . |
| 17 | it just happened that way you know the twentieth of November and there 's the nineteenth of February |
| 18 | Put both ribber levers to holding position and knit the first of the three circular rows with the ribber needles in hold position . |
| 19 | e.g. fluvial and glacial exemplify the first of these stages , while deltas represent a second stage division of the former . |
| 20 | Still to come : a full round up of the day 's news from the City , and we preview the first of the season 's major snooker tournaments . |
| 21 | The shielding protects you — though you still need to do some fancy flying to stay stable within the radioactive thermals — then as the cloud dissipates you cut out and down , across the mountains — they look tiny ! — swoop across the closed valley , loose the missile when the base 's defence radar picks you up and use the last of your fuel to escape over the far side while the missile takes out the base . |
| 22 | I drain the last of my whisky and look into the empty glass . |
| 23 | She would be able to give up her job as secretary in the medical physics department at Larksoken Power Station and start the first of the two children she had planned . |
| 24 | Er so I think the first of my four points is the is the airframe agility , clearly the the ability to m manoeuvre . |
| 25 | Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders . |
| 26 | The sun shines on the ferry as we do the last of the packing , The kayaks have lifted snouts and two holes , one at each end , closed and sealed by hard rubber covers . |
| 27 | THE Teesside Union of Golf Clubs play the second of their Yorkshire Inter-Union league matches on Sunday when they entertain the East Riding Union at Teesside Golf Club . |
| 28 | Managed by former Test captain Jackie McGlew , they play the first of seven matches on tour today . |
| 29 | Right , er next evening we settle the thirteenth of September then ? |
| 30 | Taking a leaf out of NCR Corp 's book of strategies , Unisys Corp will next week unveil the first of a new line of highly configurable Intel Corp and EISA-based personal computers that , with few if any changes , will magically turn into Unix-run workstations and entry-level servers early in the second quarter . |