Example sentences of "of the [num ord] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to the large-scale survey of American art of the twentieth century at the Martin-Gropius-Bau ( 8 May-25 July ) the gallery plans a show in May with one of their American artists . |
| 2 | The division between the private and the public sphere , which was located both in economic development ( the separation of work and home ) and in social ideology , was by the end of the nineteenth century at the heart of moral discourse ; as a corollary , not surprisingly , the development of social purity was to have profound effects between the 1880s and the First World War on the regulation of sexual behaviour . |
| 3 | I doubt that an historian of welfare policy in the 1970s could access data and run it ( i.e. view it ) just as was done by the policy makers of the 1970s and their advisers , yet we can read the parliamentary reports of the nineteenth century at exactly the same speed and in exactly the same form as the policy makers who used and created them . |
| 4 | It 's like throwing fookin' people 's briefcases out of the fifth floor at school . |
| 5 | A significant difference between Phaistos and Knossos arises because virtually the whole of the first temple at Phaistos was replaced when the site was redeveloped after the 1700 BC destruction : only the Central Court remained . |
| 6 | Bryan Robson 's injury , a legacy of previous combat , was diagnosed when he had to be substituted 20 minutes from the end of the first leg at Portsmouth only 13 days ago . |
| 7 | The uncertainty of the fat child or the onset of puberty which can make swimming baths one of the first circles of hell for the adolescent , so vividly evoked by Kathryn Ensall 's ‘ Girls in Line at the Swimming Baths ’ ( 1988 ) , or the terrifying prospect of the first day at school captured by Shanti Panchal are all expressions of modern sensibility and above all , of childhood and adolescent anxiety , constructed out of an acute embarrassment with themselves and their situation . |
| 8 | The US Department of Energy paid £3.5 million of the £11 million total cost of the first installation at the Dragon Products Company cement plant in Maine , under the Innovative Clean Coal technology Scheme . |
| 9 | A generation of politicians is now in power whose opinions have been shaped not only by the Stalinist dictatorship but also by the defeat of the first attempts at reform . |
| 10 | But you see , Mrs Sutherland , he handled that and being one of the first non-whites at St Andrew 's School . |
| 11 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 12 | Irrigation was improved , including the building in 1902 of the first dam at Aswan , while the economy was pushed ever more towards the monocrop culture of cotton , primarily for export to British textile mills in Lancashire . |
| 13 | Nicholson was one of the first students at the college to which A. W. Hofmann was appointed professor . |
| 14 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |
| 15 | Place the cursor on the first character of the first word at the top of the column to be moved ( eg the G of GENERAL in Task 23 below ) |
| 16 | There is no evidence that all jurists early practised toleration of defective trusts , for we have seen that up to the end of the first century at least there was opposition to allowing them validity . |
| 17 | Fifty years after the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove , JD Lang wrote of Australia 's Aborigines : ‘ ( we have ) despoiled them of their land , and given them in exchange European vice and European disease in every foul and fatal form … ’ |
| 18 | Lane sprang out of the first car at his approach . |
| 19 | Blonde Sue was one of the first people at his hospital bedside in Manchester Royal Infirmary . |
| 20 | A retrospective analysis was undertaken of the results of the first attempt at in vitro fertilization ( IVF ) treatment to evaluate the effects of cigarette smoking by either partner in events preceding and during oocyte recovery , fertilization , implantation , and early pregnancy in a group of patients undergoing IVF-ET . |
| 21 | Earlier , it was stated that the two circles cross each other in the shape of the ‘ Vesica Piscis ’ of sacred geometry , but that for this to be perfect , the radius of the second circle is marked out from the perimeter of the first circle at the same radius . |
| 22 | To an extent , therefore , and inevitably , the presence of the names of the First Empire at the Court of the Second seemed to underline the fact of continuity between the two regimes . |
| 23 | The winners of the first Festival at Brighton were the Paisley Branch . |
| 24 | The book opens with a narrative passage evoking first the scenes in a typical day early this century , leading up to the arrival of the first train at Craven Arms , and then a poignant shorter evocation of the way things looked shortly after the closure . |
| 25 | Israel 's special festivals , like the weekly sabbath , reflect a pattern of sevens — pointing back to God 's hallowing of the seventh day at the creation . |
| 26 | HERBIE HIDE , Norwich 's unbeaten heavyweight prospect , laboured to stop former European champion Jean Chanet after 30 seconds of the seventh round at the Norwich Sports Village last night . |
| 27 | ANDY HOLLIGAN produced an Aintree iron of a left-hook to knock out Manchester 's Tony Ekubia in 31 seconds of the seventh round at the Everton Sports Centre last night . |
| 28 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |
| 29 | Similarly , the Wallabies were unable to play with continuity in the first half of the Second Test at Ballymore because of a string of penalties but were finally able to chain together some magical passages of play . |
| 30 | Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn . |