Example sentences of "[num ord] [prep] a [n mass] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This is the first of a series of biennial exhibitions which will include painting , sculpture , photography , installation and video . |
| 2 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 3 | From the demonstrations of British pluck and enterprise in The Wooden Horse ( 1950 ) , the first of a series of escape pictures , and the celebration of one woman 's heroism in the Anna Neagle-starring Odette ( 1950 ) , through action films such as The Dam Busters ( 1955 ) , The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 , Pursuit of the Graf Spee in US ) and Sink the Bismark ( 1960 ) , there is a sense of well-known events being played out for an audience that already knew about them . |
| 4 | Blanche , smiling blandly so as to appear co-operative , was ushered over to a corner of the room to record the first of a series of television interviews . |
| 5 | The first of a series of world hunting trips to collect animals for the newly endowed Sherman Field Museum of Natural History — the latest public shrine to celebrate the force and virility of the male Sherman line — had seemed to promise her a refreshing diversion from the dull routine of Tidewater Virginia and the house of political convenience in Georgetown . |
| 6 | Six people ( five Iraqis and a Jordanian ) were on May 19 sentenced by a martial law tribunal to prison terms of up to 15 years , having been convicted of collaboration with the Iraqi occupation forces in the first of a series of war trials [ see p. 38166 ] . |
| 7 | In the Garden : Planning to beat a leafy retreat at home : In the first of a series for novice gardeners , Anna Pavord stresses the value of careful forethought |
| 8 | Axil also introduced an Open Look-based fax/modem package called AxilEnvoy as the first in a series of software products to provide added functionality such as voice mail , conversation record/playback , multimedia document support , security , image filtering and editing and optical character reading . |
| 9 | The car is the 13th in a series of Art Cars commissioned by BMW . |
| 10 | The CDU 's choice of Schäuble , 49 , who had been confined to a wheelchair since an attempt on his life in October 1990 [ see p. 37763 ] , was the last of a series of leadership elections by all four main parties in November . |
| 11 | DERBY ROAD Motive Power Depot was the last of a series of locomotive sheds built in Southport by the various pregrouping railways . |
| 12 | Like a camera my restless mind followed the rabid mongrels of Puno as they roamed down the narrow streets , through the tight patchwork of market stalls , over the rubble-lined railway track , to fight at last over a pair of cow 's horns I had seen earlier topping a pile of refuse . |