Example sentences of "of the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Flank Companies of the 1st Guards ( Grenadiers ) certainly later reinforced the Coldstream and 3rd Guards but they were not part of the original garrison . |
| 2 | Here , if the cellos are equally divided , the balance will be satisfactory because of the powerful and penetrating tone of the 1st cellos on their top string . |
| 3 | Six hundred and fifty Germans , including the whole Regimental Staff of the 12th Grenadiers , perished . |
| 4 | The shelling of the Muslim village of Konjevic Polje forced the soldiers , members of the 9th/12th Lancers , to look on helplessly as women and children were killed and injured . |
| 5 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 6 | To elderly people with long memories Korea connoted a localised crisis at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries resulting from the decline of the Ch'ing dynasty in China , the landward expansion of the Russian empire , and the beginning of the Japanese colonial empire in the Far East . |
| 7 | The last decades of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth centuries saw a major attempt at moral restructuring which had its effects both in legislation and in the tone of public life . |
| 8 | As Thomas ( 1963 ) wrote , people were affected by trains to some extent even in the most remote parts of England during the latter half of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries . |
| 9 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 10 | After all , it was the British and the Russians who had dominated Iran through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries . |
| 11 | Despite such setbacks , the Germans continued their infantry frontal attacks with supporting parachute infantry outflanking Allied positions , and after nearly a month of confused fighting the Independent Companies were withdrawn through Bodö along with elements of the 24th Guards Brigade and Norwegian troops . |
| 12 | Sir , — My regiment The Queens Royal Irish Hussars was formed by the amalgamation of The 4th Queens Own Hussars and The 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars , in 1958 . |
| 13 | The transition perhaps partly explains why representative democracy is so much less associated with national liberation today than in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 14 | A senior officer , when employed , was able to place young men in the line of command by securing their entry as midshipmen , an appointment which became increasingly in demand with the expansion of the navy during the wars against France at the end of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 15 | Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature . |
| 16 | Three-quarters of the population throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries lived by the land . |
| 17 | A group of silver-mounted back pouches sold at mid-range prices ; but the current interest in Indian Army material was reflected in the price of £580 achieved by one back pouch of the 29th Lancers ( Deccan Horse ) , circa 1907 . |
| 18 | The third defendant is , or was , the partner in charge of the fifth defendants ' London office . |
| 19 | Dot tried not to think of Hitler , nor of Dick Barton Special Agent , nor of the Fifth Columnists , nor of those giant nuns with rifles and huge booted feet beneath their long black skirts who were enemy soldiers in disguise . |
| 20 | Palestine towards the end of the sixth and in the course of the fifth centuries BC ) , it is significant that the principal concern of the Priestly Code ( the code with which we are primarily concerned , see p. |
| 21 | This permanent ‘ encratite ’ tendency was given powerful impetus in the debates about Christian perfection at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth centuries . |
| 22 | However , the judges awarded it one of the fifth prizes for a War Department design . |
| 23 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 24 | Scott was awarded the highest prize , with third on the Foreign Office list , Deane and Woodward were fourth , and Street was awarded one of the fifth prizes on the same list . |
| 25 | And finally , the three lucky winners of the fifth prizes are Ray Smith of Normanton , Kirsty Stevens of Wavertree , and H P Doherty of Bletchley . |
| 26 | Two years ago , use of the rave-dance drug Ecstasy was virtually unknown in Wales , but now 5pc of the fifth formers questioned said they had tried it . |
| 27 | It is possible Minton also knew that the house was built on the site of former warehouses where some of the first slaves brought to Britain were unloaded and where many died . |
| 28 | Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy . |
| 29 | Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy . |
| 30 | Some difficulties were experienced in the interpretation of SCOTVEC guidance documents , but this was to be expected as we were one of the first colleges to be involved in developing units for the HNC Pilot Scheme , and telephone communication with the SCOTVEC Curriculum Development Officers , who were most helpful , usually resolved them for us . |