Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] of the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horror stories abound , originally fuelled by the publication of Ruth Harrison 's Animal Machines ( 1964 ) , a book which in Britain directly influenced the setting up of the first parliamentary inquiry into the new methods of animal husbandry under the chairmanship of F.W.R. Brambell . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
| 4 | I suppose this could be a flare up of the last one . |
| 5 | Blowing awfully quickly , that 's the second out of the sixth that you bought yesterday . |
| 6 | That 's your share out of the first pizza |
| 7 | I 'm , I 'm personally delighted to be here er it 's almost er like er page out of the first chapter of er I think the should be expressed to those of you here and any who are missing er for undertaking this magnificent project . |
| 8 | We took his four- poster bed down that he wanted taking down that he cherished for some peculiar reason , and then we moved all the other bits of furniture , and as we w were sort of getting most of the furniture out of the first bedroom he said Do n't forget the loft will you ? |
| 9 | On the other side of Ayrshire , Ally MacLeod discovered how painfully short his Ayr United side are of becoming genuine challengers for promotion out of the First Division . |
| 10 | Er normally as I said earlier payable at the age of sixty erm and the benefits are based on average salary which is the best three hundred and sixty five days out of the last ten ninety five so it 's the best year out of the last three years salary . |
| 11 | It differs slightly from the average salary which is which is the best year out of the last three . |
| 12 | PP : It was absolutely fatal , of course , to have made a royal gala out of the first night . |