Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 2 | Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books . |
| 3 | A river of molten rock overwhelmed the last of five big dykes , hurriedly built by villagers to protect their homes , and surrounded Signor Giuseppe Fichera 's farm cottage , only 150 yards from the nearest permanently inhabited house . |
| 4 | THE Merseyside Partnership holds the first of three Corporate Partnership Seminars at its offices in the Cunard Building today as it continues its work of promoting the region . |
| 5 | The Club played the first of several matches against Mr. H.R. Blaker 's ‘ golf-cricketer 's team ’ which included several staff and minor players of the Kent County Cricket Club . |
| 6 | The Old Trafford defender collected the last of his 17 caps against Germany in September last year and is certain to play some part against Turkey because of the earlier withdrawal of QPR 's David Bardsley . |
| 7 | Merrill bit her lip , fingering the envelope in her handbag containing the last of Elise 's unpaid bills — for an elm chest , a beautiful piece of furniture bearing Woodline Design 's distinctive label . |
| 8 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 9 | Soon afterwards a wind sent the last of its bright leaves spiralling down . |
| 10 | The other girl laid the last of the flowers in position , and slammed the van doors shut . |
| 11 | Slowly , almost imperceptibly the towers and battlements grew , reaching upwards , the darkness of a bad dream devouring the last of the day . |
| 12 | In 1882 the Legislature took the first of these courses . |
| 13 | It opens with the words for the period ending the third of December nineteen ninety one . |
| 14 | Blanche , smiling blandly so as to appear co-operative , was ushered over to a corner of the room to record the first of a series of television interviews . |
| 15 | Iggy Pop handled the first of four keynote speeches with admirable aplomb , setting himself up for a neat career in stand-up comedy after this rock 'n' roll malarkey is over . |
| 16 | The sixteenth edition contained the first of the Phoenix schedules . |
| 17 | On June 5 , the Slovenian Assembly passed the last of the key laws to facilitate " the takeover of actual power " and Radio Ljubljana began a three-day presentation on the Slovenian independence process in which the Slovenian government participated . |
| 18 | THE 64-day Strangeways riot trial ended yesterday when a jury at Manchester Crown Court returned the last of their verdicts on eight former inmates . |
| 19 | The court chose the first of these two interpretations . |
| 20 | In 1907 , now working on his own , Freeman produced the first of the Doctor Thorndyke stories , the novel The Red Thumb Mark , whose plot revolved around the ‘ forgery ’ of a set of fingerprints by an ingenious mechanical device . |
| 21 | This month 's Magazine contains the first of two articles by Bill Howieson which it is hoped will help all of us when we pray for our missionary brothers and sisters . |
| 22 | Andrew , 13 , was just three years old when his father suffered the first of a series of strokes . |
| 23 | No I 'll tell you when the next course is for erm schools seventh the week commencing the seventh of February . |
| 24 | Erm we 've got one going at the moment so week commencing the seventh of February . |
| 25 | The first payment due to you which will be credited to your business bank account will be on week commencing the seventh of the February . |
| 26 | This week saw the second of their massive Kinnockathons , which set out to prove at vast length and with exquisite tedium what Punch first established in May last year , to wit : that both Hansard and the cuttings files are full of daft remarks uttered in the days when the windbag was still a firebrand . |
| 27 | Taking a leaf out of NCR Corp 's book of strategies , Unisys Corp will next week unveil the first of a new line of highly configurable Intel Corp and EISA-based personal computers that , with few if any changes , will magically turn into Unix-run workstations and entry-level servers early in the second quarter . |
| 28 | Next year , the younger son of this old man became the first of five Richard Goughs to live at Newton on the Hill , a mile or so from Myddle church . |
| 29 | National Semiconductor became the first of a stream of US and later Japanese electronics investors to take the bait . |
| 30 | It was a relief to see the last of them . |