Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] fifth [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the chapel they 've taken the thing that we 're sorriest about , which is the cockfighting chair that Alexander Pope the poet used the two summers that he spent working here in what 's now called Pope 's Tower , translating the fifth volume of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 2 | The unit of 17,500 men , forming a fifth division of the South African Police ( SAP ) and called Internal Stability , would be specially equipped and stationed in areas of frequent unrest . |
| 3 | The move coincided with the publication of a catalogue marking the fifth anniversary of their firm . |
| 4 | The far-reaching reorganization of the government had been foreshadowed in Babangida 's address broadcast on Aug. 27 , marking the fifth anniversary of his taking power , when he said that " we shall from now on systematically deregulate and demilitarize the process of politics and governance in the period leading to 1992 " and that his adminstration had become " critically conscious of the need to start the process " . |
| 5 | The far-reaching reorganization of the government had been foreshadowed in Babangida 's address broadcast on Aug. 27 , marking the fifth anniversary of his taking power , when he said that " we shall from now on systematically deregulate and demilitarize the process of politics and governance in the period leading to 1992 " and that his adminstration had become " critically conscious of the need to start the process " . |
| 6 | President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali , in a speech marking the fifth anniversary of his assumption of power on Nov. 7 , 1987 , announced reforms of the civil service , but failed to announce a timetable for multiparty democracy . |
| 7 | The two leaders , attending the fifth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) [ see pp. 37856-57 ] , agreed that a third round of talks at thelevel of foreign secretaries would be held in Islamabad on Dec. 18 . |