Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the last tram ran through Glasgow in September 1962 , and two days later , the Burgh of Clydebank ran its last tram , it was like the loss of some favourite place and time a vision of childhood vanishing down the sink in the wash-house . |
| 2 | Mr R. Melbourne of Loughborough wins our first £25 award by asking you for a list of those clubs who have won the old First Division title and also played in the Fourth Division . |
| 3 | The home secretary , William Lamb , second Viscount Melbourne , and many other landowners were anxious to stifle any revival of agrarian disorder , and the men of Tolpuddle became their first victims . |
| 4 | The new Earl of Torrington faced his first challenge on 21 June , when a French squadron 75 strong , with 6 frigates and 20 fireships , was sighted off the Lizard , moving up channel as if to blockade the Thames . |
| 5 | COLIN McRAE of Scotland recorded his second runaway victory of the year when he won the Carlisle-based Pirelli International by over four minutes in his Subaru at the weekend . |
| 6 | Bearing eloquent witness to the strength of this strategy , NEC 's total computer sales in 1981 surpassed those of Hitachi to make it second only to Fujitsu among Japanese makers . |
| 7 | Hemmed in between sea and mountains , with water before them and Pharaoh 's forces at their backs , the people of Israel meet their first big test of faith — and they panic . |
| 8 | The verdict came on top of an earlier Mirror phone-in in which readers voted a massive 7-1 in favour of Di becoming our next Queen . |
| 9 | The new drum corps of McNeillstown scored their first success of the season by winning best drums with the band gaining third overall placing . |
| 10 | Despite some notorious examples of TNCs abandoning their Third World ( and sometimes First World ) workers without legal compensation , there is no evidence to suggest that TNC plants inside or outside of zones are statistically any more likely to close down than domestic companies . |
| 11 | As the People 's Republic of China celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary in 1984 , the prospects for continued agricultural improvement looked good . |
| 12 | The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy . |
| 13 | President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt paid his first visit to the emirate since the end of the Gulf war , on June 18 . |
| 14 | A turning-point was reached in the life of Magnus in 1098 when King Magnus Barelegs ( or ‘ Barefoot ’ ) of Norway led his first major military expedition against the British Isles . |
| 15 | In August 1949 the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe held its first session in Strasbourg . |
| 16 | A NEW tradition begins this week when the city of York holds its first annual St Nicholas Fayre . |
| 17 | THOUSANDS of Mirror readers yesterday voted a massive 7-1 in favour of Diana becoming our next Queen . |
| 18 | These moves have been superbly converted for the Game Boy and Prince of Persia retains its first class gameplay . |
| 19 | The Art Dealers Association of America holds its fifth annual show , The Art Show , at the Armory from 25 February to 1 March . |
| 20 | In June the Private Art Dealers Association of America published its first directory of members . |
| 21 | The Duchess of Kent did not receive the GCVO until sixteen years after her marriage , the Duchess of Gloucester received hers last year after seventeen years . |