Example sentences of "of [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But she was very late — which is almost unheard of for a second birth , ’ he recalls . |
| 2 | McCrum had his eye on a century when he cruelly slipped at the crease and was run out , but his stand of for the second wicket with John Gilliland , who made 32 , put his side firmly in the driving seat . |
| 3 | In total , monks and nuns disposed of between a sixth and a seventh of all Domesday landed value . |
| 4 | There are two stars of between the fourth and fifth magnitudes , one rather brighter than the other , making up a wide naked-eye pair . |
| 5 | They are conceived of as a last resort when all else fails , including a mandatory three-day cooling-off period and a further five days while a ‘ conciliation commission ’ will attempt to produce agreement between the parties . |
| 6 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 7 | Just two years ago , the MP for Henley was being talked of as the next Prime Minister . |
| 8 | A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
| 9 | Yeah well she 's sort of with the third year and will admit she 's so fed up ! |
| 10 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
| 11 | However , the term general can be conceived of in a third way , in terms of the all-round development of the individual . |
| 12 | And erm there has been some research done , they produced a plan of what they actually consisted of in the 17th century . |
| 13 | Its name is derived from a remarkable Chase , the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem , which monuments do now exist as I have there described them . |
| 14 | Charity at 4 per cent interest was nothing to be ashamed of in the nineteenth century and it was much more commonplace for unsatisfactory tenants to be evicted than is the case today . |
| 15 | ‘ So what has Liveseys ' business consisted of in the last ten |
| 16 | Branson had drawn up what was to become known as the ‘ Million List ’ — the number of things that had to be taken care of in the next three months before the airline could fly . |
| 17 | Craig 's is an untypically simple case inasmuch as his surplus arose as early as the second count and was disposed of in the third . |
| 18 | Travel for pleasure was almost unheard of until the nineteenth century when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote , ‘ For my part , I travel not to go anywhere , but to go . |
| 19 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 20 | Not much was said of over the next four hours , and the identities of Sixsmith 's supplicants emerged only partially and piecemeal . |
| 21 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 22 | Oh Lord , we did so many extravagant things — all sort of at the last minute . |
| 23 | These were lots 228 , a South Indian bronze figure of Siva-Nataraja of around the eleventh century , estimated at Rs 75,00,000–85,00,000 , and 238 , a South Indian bronze figure of Sukhasana Siva , Chola , of around the twelfth century , estimated at Rs 50,00,000–60,00,000 . |
| 24 | The most accomplished of the Benin castings are the high relief plaques of around the 17th century . |
| 25 | These were lots 228 , a South Indian bronze figure of Siva-Nataraja of around the eleventh century , estimated at Rs 75,00,000–85,00,000 , and 238 , a South Indian bronze figure of Sukhasana Siva , Chola , of around the twelfth century , estimated at Rs 50,00,000–60,00,000 . |