Example sentences of "[adv] of the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 2 | This takes up much of the last week or more and is written out in precise detail . |
| 3 | Tamar had allowed Victoria to stay up late to watch the leading in of the last load , which was a ritual joined in by all the estate workers . |
| 4 | Mu Cephei is only of the fifth magnitude ( at least , generally so ; it is somewhat variable ) , so that with the naked eye it is not impressive even though it is actually redder than Betelgeux . |
| 5 | It is large , rich and compressed , but it is only of the eighth magnitude , and I find it very difficult with × 7 and not really easy with × 8.5 or × 12 , though with × 20 it is obvious enough . |
| 6 | But of course it is sometimes not possible , because historical research demonstrates conclusively that the kind of standardised written language which can be used to represent ethnicity or nationality is a rather late historic construction — mostly of the 19th century or even later — and in any case quite often it does not exist at all , as between Serbs and Croats . |
| 7 | To a boy who declares himself stuck about what colour to use , he says : ‘ Well , Sickert said that when in doubt put a little of the last colour into the next colour you use , and that gives harmony : it does n't work to use a colour in isolation — white and black are the two parents , red in isolation can appear like a wound in the picture — it 's like friendships , we all know the awful consequences if a new person joins a group and the friendships are n't mixed through , it 's the same with colours . ’ |
| 8 | On a sadder note , I have to report the passing away of the last Crediton chicken . |
| 9 | But on the basis of evidence available now , it seems reasonable to conclude that class is not of the first importance in structuring our experiences of family life . |
| 10 | Quadrupling the number of academics in 15 years inevitably led to some appointments of people ‘ not of the first rank ’ , as some politely express themselves . |
| 11 | There is a curious facility possessed by some writers , often those not of the first rank , which consists of an ability to create characters who step out of the surroundings in which they occur and enter the popular imagination . |
| 12 | Roy signed for aspiring Ipswich Town , then still of the 3rd Division , but helped them into Division Two the next season and then on to the 1st Division Championship . |
| 13 | Certainly little structural evidence has been found to support this implication , although in the Blackfriars Street excavations , timber buildings , possibly of the fifth century , were replacing masonry structures on the same alignments . |
| 14 | This affinity alone suggests that , like some examples of individual arrangements of squares , the multiple configurations are also of the second quarter of the fourth century . |
| 15 | In Anglo-Saxon belief , and in European popular tradition both before and after that , 25 March is the date of the Crucifixion ; also of the Annunciation ( nine months before Christmas ) ; also of the last day of Creation . |
| 16 | The other cistern , the Binbirdirek ( Cistern of 1001 columns ) is also of the sixth century . |
| 17 | This was in recognition both of the 40th anniversary of his debut with the company and of the strenuous part he has played in bringing to fruition this ambitious project . |
| 18 | The trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in 1876 for republishing one of Knowlton 's pamphlets gave the birth-control movement wide publicity and created the demand for more information , and led to the setting up of the first organisation to campaign on birth control , the Malthusian League . |
| 19 | The Hare mosaic is late ; the Tockington Park example is probably of the mid-fourth century ; while the two pavements from Gloucester and Halstock may be of the early " or mid-fourth century . |
| 20 | Of early Germanic epics the only substantial survivor is the English Beowulf , probably of the eighth century , whose text presupposes the existence of a large repertoire of lost epics . |
| 21 | It 's like throwing fookin' people 's briefcases out of the fifth floor at school . |
| 22 | FOR reasons that go deep into its past , Hungary has not done well out of the twentieth century . |
| 23 | The three-time world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday lost vital points when she was ruled out of the seventh race after her board broke . |
| 24 | Jim is a hard hitting sort of individual who knows where he is going in racing and he has brought Down Royal , I feel , out of the 17th century into the 20th — not quite the 21st — in a matter of a couple of years . |
| 25 | What would they do out of the second pizza ? |
| 26 | Right you 'd get two twelfths out of the second pizza as well there 's another two twelfths so you 'd have four twelfths all together . |
| 27 | Because the second year where no costs come out of the second year 's er payment that 's our that 's where we make our money . |
| 28 | We do n't want any costs to come out of the second year cos that 's where we make our profit . |
| 29 | She was tired of kneeling , listening to their voices droning on : ‘ Our Father who art in heaven , hallowed be Thy name ’ , and ‘ Hail Mary , full of grace ’ , which was all she could make out of the second bit , because what followed was just a mumble . |
| 30 | Hull moved out of the Second Division relegation zone for the first time since mid-September with a 2-1 win over Plymouth last night — their fourth win in their last six games and their third successive victory under the new manager Stan Ternant . |