Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thus obtain unc Also , we may now choose unc and using the second of Equations ( 6 ) we now find unc We now have to find |
| 2 | Indraugnir howled and lashed out at the Bloodthirster with renewed fury , using the last of his fading strength to keep the Blood God 's follower at bay . |
| 3 | The late afternoon slid into night , bringing a touch of frost and sapping the last of warmth and cheerfulness . |
| 4 | Pamela was just completing the fourteenth of the 15 lengths of backstroke she did every morning before breakfast when she realised she was n't alone . |
| 5 | He was eating the last of the pie with gusto . |
| 6 | ‘ Catching the last of the sun 's rays , ’ said Luke . |
| 7 | Right now he 's away on a skiing holiday catching the last of the snow . ’ |
| 8 | Then it is across the road to the social club for the third pint , before tackling the first of the long uphill stretches to the Lamb at Denholme and the fourth pint . |
| 9 | Party leader John Bruton , launching the first of the campaign manifestos , said the Reynolds ' government had still left unemployment at a near-record high level . |
| 10 | He played only 95 full games for Arsenal and is now peddling the last of his talent at Exeter , where he 's rumoured to have fallen out with manager Alan Ball . |
| 11 | It opens with the words for the period ending the third of December nineteen ninety one . |
| 12 | Spatz bowed , then returned behind his desk , opening the first of the files , running his finger over the apparently blank page , the warmth of his touch bringing the characters alive briefly on the specially treated paper . |
| 13 | The approved final designs and rental arrangements for the Hanseatic Trade Centre in Hamburg were unveiled recently , enabling the first of five building phases to begin . |
| 14 | Upon our arrival at the foot of the stairs the dog made it plain that stairs were an innovation he 'd not encountered before , by staging the first of many sit-down strikes . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's brilliant , a Verdon for bumblies ’ I had joyfully called down to Mick , on climbing the first of these pitches during an earlier attempt . |
| 16 | Slowly , almost imperceptibly the towers and battlements grew , reaching upwards , the darkness of a bad dream devouring the last of the day . |
| 17 | Devouring the last of the berries were redwing , too . |
| 18 | We are now validating and approving the last of the three batches of courses for the new system and , apart from a few special cases , this will mean that all students beginning an advanced course after the summer will be enrolling for a modular , rather than traditional , course . |
| 19 | They were passing the last of the houses now . |
| 20 | ‘ We would n't have been here then , ’ the one in the nun 's costume said , snapping the last of her buckles . |
| 21 | Smoking the first of five cigarettes from his case which had been undamaged in his rear pocket ( matches from escape kit ) Harry made up his mind to head for a port , walking north-westerly to avoid Potsdam . |
| 22 | If this solution were not efficient we would have , for some ( x 1 , x 2 , … , x n ) , and multiplying the first of these by W K and the remainder by w k and summing gives which would contradict the assumed optimality of ( x 1 * , … , x n ) . |
| 23 | Swallowing the last of the scone he ran over the drive and into the house to see Martin disappearing into the study . |
| 24 | Swallowing the last of his orange juice , he replaced the glass on the table . |
| 25 | By the mid 1950s the OCU was also training the first of the foreign aircrew whose governments had bought various marks of Canberras . |
| 26 | The young soldier Lev Tolstoy made his literary debut by publishing the first of three Sevastopol " Stories in The Contemporary in June . |
| 27 | When they moved into this house in January 1945 Edie began writing the first of two consecutive five-year diaries . |
| 28 | There is a problem about investigating the first of these hypotheses in that the dreams that are remembered are presumably the ones that have more logical structure . |
| 29 | He said that there were three preconditions for happiness — stupidity , selfishness and good health — and that he was only sure of possessing the second of these . |
| 30 | It was when he was testing the third of those with his stethoscope that Carrington beckoned to Talbot , who came and listened in turn . |