Example sentences of "[vb base] the [num ord] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 2 | Throughout the Germanic West , in the decades 680–700 , ‘ appear the first elements of a renaissance , a forerunner of the great Carolingian renewal ’ . |
| 3 | They emanate from a time about 300,000 years after the Big Bang and show the first signs of fluctuations in the density of matter in space . |
| 4 | Enjoy the first flowers of Spring or the last leaves of Autumn — on the longest night or the longest day ! |
| 5 | BOUTS of nausea and vomiting that accompany the first months of pregnancy may be good news for the mother , according to two new theories on the cause of morning sickness . |
| 6 | As we approach the last years of the 20th century , environmental damage to the earth , air and water threaten the basic resources on which we depend . ’ |
| 7 | We have got the fastest rising unemployment anywhere in Europe and the figures destroy the last vestiges of credibility for the Conservatives on the economy . ’ |
| 8 | understand the first principles of what being a woman is , if that 's what |
| 9 | Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden feel the first flutterings of love and , for once , we are offered a complete family ( the Victorian habit of removing one , or both , parents was a convention that survived into Ransome 's time ) . |
| 10 | It is good for vegetarian recipes , too , and the pudding collection is inspiring — try the first gooseberries of the year with a saffron honey custard , for instance . |
| 11 | Do the first lines of this fragment contribute to answering the question asked ? |
| 12 | Vulcanian eruptions sometimes form the first phases of a longer eruption , when the volcano is ‘ clearing its throat ’ for the real business , and as such , there may be no new magmatic material involved , and all the material that is showered up as ash to form the ‘ cauliflower cloud ’ may be merely old , cold , solid lava which was previously blocking up the throat ; if this is the case , the eruptions are sometimes called ultra-vulcanian . |
| 13 | But as the tenth century was turning into the eleventh we have the first signs of a new outlook . |
| 14 | In the fourteenth century mystical awakening we see the first signs of a deeper and more committed type of religion , which would finally culminate in both Protestant and Catholic reformations . |
| 15 | They often represent the last vestiges of the ancient practice of hacking back the vegetation along well-used tracks . |