Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 32 | The provision of council housing therefore links up the second basis of local — newcomer conflict , which relates to broadly environmental issues . |
| 33 | Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement , Unita . |
| 34 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 35 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 36 | If they succeed , they will give up the last vestiges of the party state and refute the criticisms that they are only interested in the power and money accumulated by the Communists over the past 40 years , without accepting any blame for their actions . |
| 37 | Léonie swished her fork around her plate to gather up the last vestiges of sauce mornay . |
| 38 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 39 | The small group struggled up the last piece of the embankment , Teversham necessarily in the rear and Francis Morgan stumbled almost on to McLeish 's feet . |
| 40 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 41 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 42 | They are , according to recent research , bringing up the next generation of offenders , truants , divorcees and generally inadequate people . |
| 43 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 44 | They reached the next landing and swung themselves around it , clambering up the next set of stairs . |
| 45 | The shadow was turning on that landing , moving up the next set of stairs after them . |
| 46 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 47 | The Lima to Huancayo train in Peru reversing up the next section of the highest railway in the world . |
| 48 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 49 | ‘ Come on ! ’ yelled Cardiff again , dragging them both up the next flight of stairs . |
| 50 | In February , the Bibliothèque des Arts will publish L'âge d'or espagnol by David Boone and , in April , a Dictionnaire des peintres de l'Ecole de Paris , having recently brought out the fifth volume of the catalogue raisonné of Theodore Gericault , complete with a critical study and documentary material and edited by Germain Bazin . |
| 51 | And the company also rolled out the second generation of its fault-tolerant Redundant Array of Inexpensive Systems environment , which it claims extends the RAID redundant disk array to a higher level . |
| 52 | And the company also rolled out the second generation of its fault tolerant Redundant Array of Inexpensive Systems ( RAIS ) environment , which it claims extends the RAID redundant disk array to a higher level . |
| 53 | This one 's doing a product called Dazel , due out the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 54 | They then used bogus invoices to fool Lloyd 's into covering their alleged losses , before carrying out the second stage of a ‘ double sting ’ stealing £1.2 million of the £1.8 million insurance pay-out from their company , London-based Inca Gemstones . |
| 55 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 56 | ‘ How is Christine , these days ? ’ she said as she worked along the racks , pulling out the second set of changes for the show that was just about to start . |
| 57 | On Sept. 17 , Polish inspectors in the Netherlands carried out the first inspection of a NATO member state by a unit from a Warsaw Pact country . |
| 58 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 59 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 60 | The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members . |