Example sentences of "of the [num ord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary said it was 20 June because that was the night before the solstice , the longest day , and Rufus said it was the 24th and he , Adam , said it was the 23rd because that was the eve of the 24th which was Midsummer day . |
| 2 | From the beginning of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth there had been relatively little change in the age-distribution of the population . |
| 3 | As an example of the first we can cite pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs . |
| 4 | And the arrival of the first Its had inspired him , as it had Williams in Birmingham and Lloyd in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | Delivery of the first one was scheduled for 1992 . |
| 6 | She said to the driver of the first one , who was standing within the shelter of a doorway smoking , ‘ I … |
| 7 | In the case of the first one to be founded after 1850 — Dundee in 1853 — a deaf person , Alexander Drysdale who was then headmaster of the Dundee School for the Deaf took the lead to establish an adult mission . |
| 8 | In other times she would have been obsessively at her pen or her typewriter ; as it was , she harassed her scribes and possible scribes continually — to death , it would appear in the case of the first one . |
| 9 | I was thinking of the first one which was reproduced in Herbert Read . |
| 10 | The second charge is brought in in the presence of the first one . |
| 11 | of the first one to boil and boil all that off and then you 're left with the other one . |
| 12 | And then what would we do with so that 's the first pizza that 's dealt with and they got a piece like that out of the first one . |
| 13 | JUST WHEN you thought that too many of them had been offed at the end of the first one , out rides the sequel . |
| 14 | He was fixing to get rid of the first one in the divorce courts . |
| 15 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 16 | And your cousin was one of the first one of the few women I ever knew , who could take shorthand in Welsh . |
| 17 | JUST WHEN you thought that too many of them had been offed at the end of the first one , out rides the sequel . |
| 18 | Excellent , a little bit of the first one you just said , joint life , if you want to be |
| 19 | Right so what we 're saying really , I , I know we 've got three other people to come to but what comes out of the first one is , alright , you 're saying you 've got an organised day , and I 'm sure you have , and I do n't have any problem as such . |
| 20 | SCOTTISH Amicable is to launch a second Capital Guarantee Bond , following the success of the first one which took in £22.5 million following its launch last October . |
| 21 | Also it 's called another thing , heavenly Jerusalem with millions of angels in general assembly and the congregation of the first one which is the first fruits are n't they ? |
| 22 | It had 2 big inns , and we 're more or less , well , we are on the site of the first one , Blue Boar Inn , and on your map , rather strangely , it seems to be built across the opening of Blue Boar Lane , I do n't know if you can see . |
| 23 | He became the doyen of British physicists , and incidentally one of the first whose voice we can still hear , preserved in a primitive recorder at Glasgow University . |
| 24 | This was the first poem Dana showed me , and one of the first I reworked with him . |
| 25 | One of the first he had received from Sloane reported on a new hothouse at Chelsea and listed the exotics already growing there . |
| 26 | David 's was one of the first she organised , but Marie was impressed with the ceremony . |
| 27 | I remember Gary , Gary it was one of the first it was when he |
| 28 | This suggests that what Mill may have meant in saying that one pleasure is of higher quality than another is that it may be pleasanter without there being a quantifiable relation between them , in terms of which there must be some amount of the second which is as worth while , in hedonic terms , as the first . |
| 29 | Attach the first fabric panel by centring it between the outside edge of the first vertical batten and the middle of the second one . |
| 30 | This guideline has not attracted as much comment as the previous two , and has sometimes been seen as part of the second one . |