Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of recent commentators have argued that evidence of lesbianism among eighteenth century writers is very difficult to assess . |
| 2 | I would have sworn there had n't been time for you to make any kind of progress since last night . |
| 3 | It is difficult to come to a firm view on these matters , but the nature of support for third parties is clearly of particular significance and affords a crude test of the Alt view — especially in the case of new parties where there can be no established sense of partisan identification . |
| 4 | My sister took a bit of stick at first , too , and although she 's two years younger than me and was in a different class , we stuck together at break times and tried to avoid the sneering eyes . |
| 5 | Provided ( i ) the audit file explains the context in which particular stamped documents have been examined , and ( ii ) the significance of special audit marks or ticks are standardised and understood by the audit staff , there should be little risk of misinterpretation by third parties after the event . |
| 6 | They normally come to the attention of the police by neighbours , ringing up , There 's an argument or there 's a lot of noise from next door . |
| 7 | Group II was patients without signs or symptoms of toxoplasmosis at first assessment ( classes A1–A3 , B3 , and C3 ; 2 patients had cryptococcal meningitis , 3 Kaposi 's sarcoma ) but who produced toxoplasma-specific antibodies ( table ) . |
| 8 | Although there is a wealth of literature on second language acquisition — usually in children of primary school age or younger , and usually as a consequence of schooling in a second language — the processes of the foreign language classroom are not necessarily identical or even generally comparable . |
| 9 | In his contribution to the present volume , the distinguished Soviet historian , Leonid Goryushkin , has added fresh insights to the body of literature on nineteenth and early twentieth-century peasant migration patterns by demonstrating how these reflected the fluctuating social , economic and political policies of the late tsarist regime and by analysing their impact on the agrarian economy and village industries of Siberia in the decades before the first World War . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 11 | We have offered what we consider to be the best works of fiction by Third World writers — not just of this year , but of any year . |
| 12 | Nothing in this Policy or in any document thereon shall affect the right of any person indemnified by this Policy or of any other person to recover an amount under or by virtue of the provisions of the law of any territory in which the Policy operates relating to the insurance of liability to Third Parties . |
| 13 | Nothing in this Policy or in any Endorsement thereon shall affect the right of any person indemnified by this Policy or of any other person to recover an amount under or by virtue of the provisions of the law of any territory in which the Policy operates relating to the insurance of liability to Third Parties . |
| 14 | In a recent essay she claims to have had a strong sense of déjá-vu upon first reading theories of post-structuralism and postmodernism , for though she had never been able to articulate them clearly in conceptual form , she had discovered many of the concepts these theories present through writing fiction ( 1991a:165 ) . |
| 15 | Cost is calculated as follows : Raw materials — cost of purchase on first in , first out basis Work in progress — cost of raw materials and labour together with and finished goods attributable overheads . |
| 16 | It was the Carling tournament at Royal Birkdale , a big event with a great deal of money as first prize . |
| 17 | In the same way , the West continues to make large sums of money from Third World debt . |
| 18 | RUGBY LEAGUE : Ellery Hanley , the Great Britain and Leeds skipper who has been out of action since last November , suffered a calf muscle injury in training and has been ruled out of for Leeds ' game at Warrington on Sunday . |
| 19 | The injury will keep him out of action until next month . |
| 20 | Individual investors , unlike the S.I.B. , are given no statutory right of action against third parties ‘ knowingly concerned . ’ |
| 21 | Controlling production by massive ‘ bribes ’ in the form of aid to Third World drug-producing countries in exchange for specific measurable target reductions in production and controls on local drug merchants requires major intergovernmental agreements and even so will not prevent the illicit manufacture close to the point of consumption of man-made ‘ designer drugs ’ . |
| 22 | To comprehend all that was involved here , one must experience the full force of tragedy at first hand ; and here Act III of Tristan can be pointed to as a prime specimen of tragic art . |
| 23 | Courses prescribed by Head of Department in first year , and thesis in second . |
| 24 | It should also be noted that many universities offer extra-mural courses which have no fixed entrance requirements , that the Open University is open entry in terms of prior qualifications , and that many institutions are now developing ‘ access ’ courses which provide non-standard routes of entry to first degrees . |
| 25 | It is not at all clear to what extent threats of violence to third parties will negative consent . |
| 26 | The pairing was the one feared most , because of painful memories of violence at last year 's European championship in West Germany . |
| 27 | ‘ We hope to organise another contest when the next ship comes in — but plan to get a bit of practice in first . ’ |
| 28 | the amount of turnover to third parties other than Government and the amount of central and local government payments shown as revenue ; |
| 29 | A fountain of blood at first pours from his chest , but soon subsides to become a steady trickle . |
| 30 | If one took analogies seriously and from such a definition … of ‘ so-called primitive capitalist accumulation ’ , then literally the whole of capitalism , right up to its death would end up in the ‘ pre-history ’ of capitalism : for capitalism obtains surplus profits from ‘ third persons ’ throughout its entire existence ; there is and will be no such stage in the life of capitalism when profits were not to come its way on the basis of exploitation of third persons . |