Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 2 | One of them extends the Fourth Directive to both partnerships ( whether limited or unlimited ) and unlimited companies , in either case where the partners or shareholders themselves have limited liability . |
| 3 | A number of tentative poems took shape , and five of them form the first section of The Prodigal Son . |
| 4 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 5 | Five other nice but provocable strategies ended up nearly as successful ( frequent in the population ) as Tit for Tat ; indeed , one of them won the sixth run . |
| 6 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 7 | Five thousand of them covered the last mile of the march through the Berkshire fields in silence , despite the coldest and wettest Easter for forty years . |
| 8 | stolen , one of which contained the last and only |
| 9 | But it was a neat chaos of boxes piled on each other , cakes still in the tins they came in and hatboxes , one of which contained the last remaining ball of her long-ago childhood . |
| 10 | It 's still used for target practice — a poignant reminder of the Cold War , the end of which heralded the last post for RAF Hullavington . |
| 11 | It is belted over a long overfold the lower edge of which makes a second horizontal accent , less marked and less regular than that of the belt . |
| 12 | Erm well as many of you know the first one of the first things that you see , if you 're c approaching the town from from the A six one two , from er . |
| 13 | She listened in such a way as to make every remark of mine appear the last word in wit . |
| 14 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 15 | The chance of it getting the first word-METHINKS — right is 1/27 for each of the 8 letters , therefore ( 1/27 ) x ( 1/27 ) x ( 1/27 ) x ( 1/27 ) . , |
| 16 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 17 | ‘ Because it would be good for some of us to see the first moments of your great fame . ’ |
| 18 | On to the last day and Nicklaus — who was putting in a charge in front of us attempting the third part of the grand slam , having won the Masters and the US Open in 1972 — and everything was going reasonably well until the 7th , the hare hole . |
| 19 | 3 This agreement is on the assumption that you are the owner of the materials , and that in the event of your employing a third person or persons to provide part or the whole of the materials , that the copyright of those materials have been assigned to you . |