Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] of [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Eighth Army turned and stood for what was to be the first battle of Alamein , a tiny force consisting of the 11th Field Regiment and a part of the Essex Regiment was rushed to the Ruweisat Ridge with orders to plug the vital gap between the South African positions on the coast and the New Zealanders on the edge of the Quattara Depression . |
| 2 | His loyal and seemingly very level-headed wife Nesta says of the second sex scandal he has been involved in during their marriage : |
| 3 | In The Faerie Queene , Spenser wrote of the first man and woman as ‘ Elfe … and Fay … [ of ] whom all Fayres spring ’ : |
| 4 | In front of the King , the marshes and mud-flats of Earnbank were already filled with struggling men as his own dismounted vanguard disposed of the last of the fifty intruders from the Forth landing . |
| 5 | The first group consisted of the first 15 consecurive patients and 11 consecutive volunteers who were asked not to swallow any saliva ( they were asked to spit it out ) . |
| 6 | Essex , one of the new universities born of the last years of Macmillan 's rule , was occupied . |
| 7 | A number of objections can be raised , however , against both Marx 's method and the subsequent use made of the third department for arms production . |
| 8 | Maximilian Novak speaks of the eighteenth century as the ‘ Age of Disguise ’ , and Terry Castle treats the masquerade as a central metaphor of eighteenth century culture Leapor adamantly refuses to conceal herself . |
| 9 | Though there have always been differences between countries outside the First World , for a long time it did appear to make sense to speak of The Third World , the title of Worsley 's very influential book ( 1973 ) on the subject . |
| 10 | With such a clear overview and a balanced feminist perspective in your History of the World NI 196 , how is it possible that you failed to mention the witch burning of the 16th and 17th centuries , when nine million women , men and children were executed ? |
| 11 | ‘ Five minutes up Old Nick 's Entry and th'pockets cleaned of every last farthing ! ’ |
| 12 | Yet a large part of the French memorandum consists of a third category of conditions — such as a demand for broad and deep increases in the market access of goods and services — that are constructive , even if ambitious . |
| 13 | The former British champion from Sunderland took the first step back on the road to championship level by stopping Clarkson with 65 seconds gone of the fifth round . |
| 14 | It is with great pleasure that I now enclose a copy of the video film made of the first semi-final round . |
| 15 | In contemporary political debate it is ‘ Victorian values ’ which are presented as the high point of family responsibilities , implying that Utopia existed somewhere around the middle to end of the nineteenth century ( West , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | This will particularly be the case when the adverse effect is upon the livelihood or the ability to earn of the second person or body . |
| 17 | In the example below , the filter set consisted of the first 30% of the core vocabulary . |