Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 2 | More than thirty works by Balla , Boccioni , Marini , Medardo Rosso , Fontana and Manzó figure in ‘ A Short History of Modern Italian Sculpture ’ opening on the 22nd at Baldaccio-Daverio and lasting until 6 June . |
| 3 | A second tricky little pattern was appearing beside the first on Alice 's form . |
| 4 | date in your diary , you know , the draw 's happening on the thirtieth of November , and you know , er |
| 5 | Note that the law relating to the last of these excuses , concerning distance to school from home and transport arrangements , has been amended following the decision of the House of Lords in Rogers v Essex County Council ( 1986 ) . |
| 6 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 7 | Corgi 's answer to All the Sweet Promises , a long , absorbing , atmospheric Second World War tale of four different girls meeting as the first of the WAAFS and contributing courageously to the fight . |
| 8 | The collection totals approximately 150 items comprising an historical survey of first-class material ranging from the first to the nineteenth century AD . |
| 9 | All the music played was written by composers who were chemists ( or almost so ) , ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth century , from Campion to Elgar . |
| 10 | On offer are paintings , drawings and works of art ranging from the seventeenth to the 20th centuries . |
| 11 | 31 Italian Old Master paintings ranging from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries are to be sold by the J.Paul Getty Museum . |
| 12 | Todedo 's 168 pieces of Roman mould-blown glass , dating from the first to sixth centuries AD , constitute the world 's largest and finest collection of examples of this technique . |
| 13 | The exhibition spans the period from 3,000 BC to the sixteenth century , with most of the exhibits dating from the first to the third century AD . |
| 14 | Palatinate of Durham Within the Department of Palaeography of the University of Durham , established in 1948 for the promotion of the study of manuscript material mainly from the northern counties , there are major collections dating from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries . |
| 15 | More than 120 paintings dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth century have been loaned from The State Museum of Ukrainian Art , Kiev , the majority nineteenth-century portraits and genre scenes but also some fine icons such as ‘ The Miracle of Saint George ’ , second half of the fifteenth century , from the Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross , Zvyzhen ( Galicia ) , and a group of avant-garde works from the private collection of the Kiev collector Ihor Dyehenko . |
| 16 | Other lots include a seventeenth-century Florentine bronze pacing stallion from the workshops of Antonio Susini ( est. £40,000–60,000 ; $61,200–92,000 ) , and a collection of about seventy ivories dating from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries , comprising French gothic reliefs , South German concentric turned goblets , several statuettes and a number of tankards . |
| 17 | The Perls Collection is a recent gift to the Metropolitan Museum ; this is the catalogue of the exhibition of 149 sculptures and other items from Southern Nigeria , including the Yoruba kingdoms of Owo and Ijebu , dating from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries , many of great beauty , which closed 13 September . |
| 18 | Item No 5 : is a sandwich-type buckle-plate , dating from the 14th to 15th century . |
| 19 | She tipped one ear to the road , listening to the last of Mitch . |
| 20 | The reason for this , according to the second of the two studies just cited , is that " large firms … had more rationalised hiring systems and were better able to identify when temporary workers could be used efficiently " . |
| 21 | Item No 4 : the large loop would normally be attached to a belt as this is a purse frame dating to the 15th to 16th century . |
| 22 | I attended the last charity meeting on the thirtieth of November . |
| 23 | Last year we had the annual parish meeting on the thirtieth of April . |
| 24 | there is evaluation plan for this year is meeting on the fifteenth of September , so for C Os there 's some work on consumer evaluation . |
| 25 | And the annual parish council meeting on the fourteenth of May . |
| 26 | ‘ And you have ? ’ said Bob , nibbling at the last of his cheese . |
| 27 | In looking at the first of these it must be recognized that no map , however detailed or carefully compiled , can perfectly represent the ‘ ground truth ’ , while in the second instance , the digitizing process merely serves to compound the errors present in the original map ( Poiker 1982 ; Blakemore 1984 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ To think I may be looking at the last of the Corbetts . ’ |
| 29 | The Ryehill Course near Bloxham in Oxfordshire is where we 're going for the first in a new series of the Friday Feature . |
| 30 | It should be worth waiting for the last in which Mick Ryan 's Les Amis ( 3.40 ) is well drawn and must be fancied on her two lengths defeat of Quinta Royale at Folkestone . |