Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not unusual for a recording to be made in Leningrad one week and to be in the machine of a listener in the far east of the country the next week . |
| 2 | On the other side of the highway the second of the big sixteen wheelers was parked , engine running and one of Rocky 's trucker buddies behind the wheel . |
| 3 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 4 | The result of all this was that , although at the end of the century a third of the population still lived below the poverty line and the diet of the poorest included items such as white bread , condensed milk , and vegetable oil margarine , the earnings of a Lancashire cotton operative in 1913 permitted him ‘ a breakfast of coffee or tea , bread , bacon and eggs — when eggs are cheap — a dinner of potatoes and beef , an evening meal of tea , bread and butter , cheap vegetables or fish , and a slight supper at moderate price ’ . |
| 5 | Nor did they find one on Belov 's body , when they pulled it out of the river the next morning . |
| 6 | Certainly , in its execution of the attack the Fifth Army had displayed a cumbersomeness and excess of caution that would never have been countenanced by most of Hitler 's captains . |
| 7 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 8 | Having defined the size of the board the next stage is to consider the circuit and the components themselves , before getting down to the job of designing the copper track pattern itself . |
| 9 | Jenny tells me the rest of the story the next day . |
| 10 | With the fall of the village the first phase of the battle ended , and an even grimmer one began . |
| 11 | Due to circumstances beyond the control of the plaintiff the last delivery was made in early September rather than late August . |
| 12 | After the turn of the leaf the next day when the the the new quarter began , every shop was queued from eight 'o clock in the morning . |
| 13 | Review Of The Week The last sweep of the Guttersnipe |
| 14 | At the end of the war the last battle was fought here , Charles the second came with a scottish army and had the final battle with Oliver Cromwell . |
| 15 | Our advertising budget two and a half percent of the market the first year . |
| 16 | All parts of the body were then to be carefully washed in spirits of wine before proceeding to the third stage , which consisted in the injection of the body a second time — his system being an amalgam of that advocated by Robert Boyle and Ruysch — and the viscera , should it be considered necessary . |
| 17 | A half-mile south of the bridge the first French staff officers were rifling the mail in Charleroi 's post office in search of letters which might have been posted by Allied officers and thus provide clues of British or Prussian plans . |
| 18 | The eldest was to receive half of them , his younger brother a third and the youngest member of the family a ninth . |
| 19 | To her dismay , as she pushed open the door of the treatment-room the first person she set eyes on was David Markham . |
| 20 | A brother or father 's brother of the bride should meet the first group ; a sister or mother 's sister of the bride the second group ; a cross-cousin of the bride the third group . |
| 21 | A brother or father 's brother of the bride should meet the first group ; a sister or mother 's sister of the bride the second group ; a cross-cousin of the bride the third group . |
| 22 | ‘ I should think it starts when you need a hair of the dog the next morning . ’ |
| 23 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
| 24 | ( ‘ Clearwater ’ ) ; at the time of the acquisition the first two respondents were directors of the petitioner . |
| 25 | On the start of the game the first child from each team pops their balloon by jumping on it . |
| 26 | Each year of the cycle the first tithe was paid to the Levites ( with the exception of the Sabbath ) and on the third and sixth year of the cycle the second tithe was a poor tithe . |
| 27 | Each year of the cycle the first tithe was paid to the Levites ( with the exception of the Sabbath ) and on the third and sixth year of the cycle the second tithe was a poor tithe . |
| 28 | I actually had to curtail part of the business the first time . |