Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May the force be with you : West Indies ' bowling heroes Curtly Ambrose ( left ) , who had match figures of 8–81 , and Courtney Walsh , whose spell of 11–7–8–4 on the last morning was decisive . |
| 2 | What 's the state of play on the second one , did it were , were the trustees all dismissed , or did Brown Wilkinson 's judgment stop that ? |
| 3 | WALES captain Andrew Puddle led by example in his side 's six-wicket Minor Counties win over Dorset at Cherborne School — a victory that did n't look possible at the start of play on the second day . |
| 4 | New Zealand were within 33 runs of their first home Test victory in three years at close of play on the fourth day against Australia in Auckland . |
| 5 | But Wednesday took the lead against the run of play in the 27th minute . |
| 6 | There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . |
| 7 | Architects for the conversion were Cecil Denny Highton and Partners and the work was carried out in two phases , the contractors for the first being Newman and Kerry of Aldershot , and J. Edwards and Sons of Waterlooville for the second . |
| 8 | Manager Brian Kettle has been having talks with several players with a view to signings and is hopeful of progress within the next week . |
| 9 | Consider the resolution of the pronoun for each choice of verb in the second sentence of |
| 10 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 11 | On 31 July , he again signalled his frustrations about lack of support from the Eighth Army to the Deputy Director of Operations : ‘ As impossible function more than 20% of capacity under existing arrangement with army , I suggest that L detachment comes under temporary R.A.F. control . |
| 12 | Such has been the rate of change in the last few years that the 1981 Census has become woefully outdated . |
| 13 | and there 's so much of the kind of change in the last few chapters leading up to this which suddenly got Jesus being spat at Saint Mark is telling us that Jesus has now been condemned . |
| 14 | I have discouraged the use of adjectives in the last two chapters but here you can see them used with superb skill . |
| 15 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 16 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 17 | Karsten foresees a mass culling of products in the next six months and a polarisation into four big brands : Guinness ' alcohol-free lager Kaliber , Bass ' low-alcohol market leader Tennents LA , Whitbread 's White Label low-alcohol bitter and his own Clausthaler as the ‘ premium imported ’ brand . |
| 18 | One national newspaper is offering a bottle of champagne for the first reader who can give more information about Norma 's former boyfriend . |
| 19 | One of the major findings of criminology in the last decade has been the importance of repeat victimisation as a contributor to the overall crime rate . |
| 20 | As an example of the geographical comparison of normal patterns we can compare the relative incidence of coins of the first two centuries AD in two different areas such as Britain and Italy . |
| 21 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 22 | The Act stated that other schemes could be formed from the schedule of twelve by advancing or postponing the day of payment of the first instalment , provided that the first payment was not made sooner than the eleventh day , and that not more than one penny per pound was added to the interest for every thirteen days of such postponement . |
| 23 | Pressnell suggests that only a brilliant speech by Keynes prevented its rejection in the Lords.The loan was damaging to British pride , while among its terms the insistence on sterling convertibility within a year of payment of the first instalment was particularly ominous . |
| 24 | A time capsule containing personal messages of hope for the next generation will be buried during closing ceremonies . |
| 25 | It 's no more astonishing than was the growth of industrialisation in the first place . |
| 26 | The use of herbs during the twentieth century had dwindled so much before their present popularity that it had been reduced to the culinary few , such as parsley and mint , with adventurous cooks experimenting with chives , sage and thyme . |
| 27 | The Domesday Book gives a good indication of the status of certain places as caputs at the heads of estates in the eleventh century . |
| 28 | Time zero is the time of admission to the first hospital . |
| 29 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 30 | I was lucky to be given a great deal of freedom with the first draft . |