Example sentences of "[adj] of the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half of the first rebleeds occurred within 12 months of initiation of sclerotherapy . |
| 2 | Nearly half of the first papers derived from Ph D research in the present study are jointly authored , and in nearly half of these cases , the thesis author is not the first author . |
| 3 | Since Britannia ‘ ruled the waves ’ for at least half of the 19th century and for the early part of the 20th century , and since profitable shipping was of paramount British national interest , British legislators and judges were sympathetic to the British carriers ' use of extremely broad disclaimers . |
| 4 | By the time Huy arrived at the house he was free of the last traces of the tormentors in his head . |
| 5 | As Dr Jaffery pointed out , the British of the last century must take much of the blame for this . |
| 6 | However , one will do well to reflect on the following remark of Bentham ( of which some of the second part of this work might be seen as an endorsement ) . |
| 7 | Collegians had a great season last time out , but coach Brian Carruth 's entire forward line is pregnant which means early chances for some of the Second XI who won the All Ireland Costley Cup . |
| 8 | The experiences of some of the Second World ( communist ) countries , those who had escaped from the grip of global capitalism , particularly the Soviet Union and then China , seemed to lend support to the argument . |
| 9 | Arthur was saying some of the second hand stuff at Bromley High is quite good . |
| 10 | Some of the first Lombard Scheme MBA graduates with the Institute 's President |
| 11 | Some of the first signs that Britain and the United States might draw together against a new common threat appeared in the Middle East , a region ironically where the British had been particularly anxious to uphold their predominant influence , even against the Americans . |
| 12 | Amongst her many other interests , Ann initiated some of the first Medau Classes for children and she also worked widely with young folk through scouting etc . |
| 13 | Although we have no record , the Magnolia Grandiflora from the United States that clothe the wall of the north wing of the house must have been some of the first plantings of magnolias at Lanhydrock ; I would guess that are now well inside their second century . |
| 14 | Some of the first customers were the crew of aircraft carrier HMS Invincible on a courtesy visit to Hong Kong . |
| 15 | This school was to have been patronised by some of the first noblemen and gentlemen of the country , and Clark had the fullest assurance that the government would aid and support his venture . |
| 16 | Yes , I mean you may well have seen on the television , some of the first film of some of the camps , that the first sort of rioting was about water . |
| 17 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
| 18 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 19 | It is possible Minton also knew that the house was built on the site of former warehouses where some of the first slaves brought to Britain were unloaded and where many died . |
| 20 | Atrium Technologies Inc , Austin , Texas , the new start-up by Tivoli Systems founder Bob Fabbio ( UX No 419 , is going to preview its never-before-seen software packages this week at ComNet , some of the first stuff built for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment , DCE . |
| 21 | In 1898 , on the Torres Straits expedition , he performed some of the first experiments in cross-cultural psychology and also developed the genealogical method as a key to the study of social organization . |
| 22 | [ since ] the aim of achieving a strong competitive position in international markets , or at least the concern not to be at a disadvantage in comparison with competitors in other countries was one of the chief arguments advanced by some of the first employers ' associations against proposals for social reforms through protective labour and social legislation . |
| 23 | Some of the first life course sociologists assumed that this gradual ageing process was also socially unidirectional , towards ‘ disengagement ’ , as if in acceptance that life itself was ebbing away . |
| 24 | Some of the first Americans to urge a tougher anti-Soviet stance were also quick to see closer relations with Britain as an obvious corollary . |
| 25 | On examination , it appears that some of the first papers were published in specialist journals , none of which appears in the highly-ranked journal set . |
| 26 | Thus , in some of my own research into theatre audiences , at a time when virtually nothing was known about who goes to the theatre , some of the first surveys I carried out were concerned with eliciting data on people 's age , education , social class , who they went with , how they heard about the play , and so on . |
| 27 | Yet the same writer lamented that some of the first students ‘ in many cases alienated the more thoughtful minds from the denomination ’ . |
| 28 | As a result of this feedback , we are now considering adding extra modules to the original specifications for some of the first phase of general SVQs . |
| 29 | As we drive from mine to exhausted mine I chat with some of the first group about doing geology . |
| 30 | Since an earlier study ( Wing , 1988 ) had reported no improvement in client experience of some of the first people to move out of Darenth Park Hospital , in services which themselves turned out to replicate many of the organizational features of the hospital , it was decided to include some measures of the physical and social environment as well as of client experience . |