Example sentences of "[pron] the [num ord] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had felt at the instant the idea suggested itself to me the first glimmer of positive thought : suddenly I knew I was not going to sink . |
| 2 | To me the last part of the poem is the one that really contains the message of futility suggested by the title : |
| 3 | It brought closer Home Office control and local authority subsidy to reformatories for children for whom the first resort of probation had either failed or was thought inappropriate . |
| 4 | This makes them the first chain of salons in the U.K. specialising in both Afro and European hairdressing . |
| 5 | First , if the specimen is subjected to axial stress — as well as the twist , then as Biot ( 1939 ) has shown , Equation ( 5.3 ) needs to be modified so that where is the applied torque and I the second moment of area of the cross-section with respect to the twist axis . |
| 6 | Yet the circumstances in which ( 2d ) might be uttered are likely to be quite different from those in which the first sentence of extract ( I ) was uttered . |
| 7 | A good example is provided by his comment on the way in which the first editor of the journal Nature allowed his personal opinions to intrude upon its pages : ‘ [ Norman ] Lockyer sometimes forgets that he is only the editor and not the author of Nature . ’ |
| 8 | The rise of the hill is dominated by a statue of Robert the Bruce on horseback , and within a swirl of concrete rotunda is the Borestone , at which the first blow of the battle was struck and by which Bruce set up his standard . |
| 9 | This general outline story of the first Passover is called the Haggadah , after which the first part of the special Psalms for Passover are sung , known as the Hallel Psalms ( Psalms 112–13 ) . |
| 10 | The work to be considered in this chapter provides for a temporary completion of the argument concerning the nature of objectification to which the first part of this book has been devoted . |
| 11 | On Oct. 18 , 1989 , the World Bank approved two loans totalling $89,000,000 , through its soft-loan affiliate , the International Development Association ( IDA ) ; $45,000,000 represented the second tranche of an industrial sector adjustment credit , of which the first tranche of $62,000,000 had been released in 1988 . |
| 12 | These are the Fieldnames but in many spreadsheets the cells in which the first row of data is entered are just as important , if not more so than the names themselves . |
| 13 | A start state , state 0 , must always be included , into which the first version of a module following the model will enter . |
| 14 | But there is a more general condition , which the first use of ‘ Here ’ shares with the second , namely , the possibility of distinguishing one place from another . |
| 15 | The HAT has purchased extra land at each site on which the first phase of new houses will be built . |
| 16 | ( b ) Allocate the total cost of the payroll to the calendar month in which the last day of the time sheet falls . |
| 17 | To those who , like me , find it difficult to relate the education of the young child to a future market place and to the , as yet unknown , technological changes which the last decade of this century and the first decade of the next will bring , the debate is somewhat arid . |
| 18 | It is then developed in seven statements to a climactic definition of the nature of the fire of love ; they are brought to a triumphant conclusion by juxtaposing a negative statement with its positive form to indicate ways in which the third degree of singular love fulfils and transcends the longing of the earlier stages : The phrase from The Song of Songs ( 5:2 ) which heralds the arrival of the beloved , here conveys a sense of a transformed newly awakened consciousness where longing and the unquiet ego are quenched . |
| 19 | Shem 's family comes last , as these are the nations around which the next stage of the narrative develops . |
| 20 | Its the first operation of its kind in Britain , and six police forces are pooling their resources to spread the net right across the Central region . |
| 21 | its the second leg of the first round of the coca cola cup tomorrow night … |
| 22 | this week its the third round of the coca cola cup … our only survivors are Swindon … they 've got Oldham from the Premier League at the County Ground tomorrow night … kick-off is at seven forty five … |
| 23 | … in Rugby its the third round of the cup this weekend … |
| 24 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 25 | He was himself the first discoverer of that ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ . |
| 26 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 27 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 28 | I have asked no one else , I have given you the first opportunity of owning these things . ’ |
| 29 | What I 'll do is I 'll read you the first paragraph of rule six and actually bend the rule and put those words in and it really does n't make any sense at all , so listen carefully on this one and do n't be surprised if you do n't understand me . |
| 30 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |