Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 2 | However , he would n't be surprised if it was announced at DECUS in Cannes in September and first shipments came right after the first of the year . |
| 3 | It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 4 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 5 | The first of July will no doubt be much like the thirtieth of June — such is the tragedy of Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 7 | El grip has been discarded , along with the last of the Band-Aids . |
| 8 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 9 | Both these elements are needed in an understanding of soil erosion conservation , but hitherto it is only the first which has usually been considered — and only in the first of the three location-specific senses at that . |
| 10 | Kristeva 's own voice is recorded in this volume only in the first of the essays , ‘ The Adolescent Novel ’ , but each of the subsequent pieces variously addresses aspects of her work . |
| 11 | yes I see , I think er unfortunately doctor I in this particular case I ought to make an order for certificate for counsel erm in the current , in respect of the costs incurred below on the thirteenth of August seems to me do er the proper kind of case in which to instruct counsel . |
| 12 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 13 | And so to the first of our summer sporting specials . |
| 14 | And so to the last of the Sicilian references , 109/774 : |
| 15 | Please come to the station at three o'clock on the 30th of the month , if this is a suitable day . |
| 16 | And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July . |
| 17 | In on the fourteenth of July of nineteen ninety three the defendant took out a summons with a view to having all the outstanding matters resolved and er this summons came before erm deputy master on the twelfth of August nineteen ninety three and he gave various directions including an enquiry in relation to how the surgery premises er ought to be dealt with as in court in the winding up of the partnership and that matter went before Mr Justice long in December and he decided those issues and gave directions in relation to and how the premises are to be sold , the effect of the directions very vaguely , is that the premises have to be offered to the partners , if only one of the partners shows any interest then there is provision in the relevant deed for ascertaining the price and this is put to that partner at that price , if more than one partner wishes to buy the premises then there is provision for a fixing of a minimum figure and then each of the partners has to put in sealed offers er and the premises will be sold to the partner , the former partner who put in the last offer , that broadly speaking I think is the substance of Mr Justice order . |
| 18 | Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year |
| 19 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |
| 20 | The series moves to Candlestick Park tonight for the first of three games on the West Coast . |
| 21 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 22 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 23 | Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’ |
| 24 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 25 | Tonight in the first of two reports , Richard Barnett looks at the traditional family links that have sustained the regiment down the centuries , in The Glosters … |
| 26 | Inspector Morse returns to our screens tonight in the first of what will be the penultimate series . |
| 27 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 28 | And the entire thing was preceded by a death at one of the near farms , just before the first of the storms came . |
| 29 | They rode through just before the first of the big gate timbers descended in an explosion of sparks . |
| 30 | Then just before the last of us left the island , a fisherman brought one in , lashed to the side of his canoe . |