Example sentences of "of the first [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the first session of interviews , there was inevitable frustration . |
| 2 | From the day of the first admission of patients no fewer than 90 persons had applied for medical relief . |
| 3 | ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students . |
| 4 | Two more of the nave lights had been switched on but the church was still dim compared with the harsh glare of the arc lights trained on the scene and it took him a minute to locate Father Barnes , a dark shape at the end of the first row of chairs under the pulpit . |
| 5 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 6 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |
| 7 | Next month , France commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first convoy of Jews to be sent from Paris ' Gare de l'Est to the Nazi concentration camps . |
| 8 | Karl Egon von Fürstenburg , who died in 1757 , was a president of the first Academy of Sciences . |
| 9 | This was the year of the first wave of reforms in Hungary , when thinking communists were beginning to realise that something had gone awfully wrong . |
| 10 | By 1927–8 many of the first generation of intellectuals had already left , disillusioned by increasingly sectarian politics and rigorously disciplined organisational structures . |
| 11 | The centenary of the first settlement of Ukrainians on Canadian soil is being celebrated by the Art Gallery of Hamilton with ‘ The Spirit of Ukraine ’ ( 9 April–15 June ) . |
| 12 | Your TESSA will mature upon the fifth anniversary of the receipt of the first deposit of funds to the TESSA ( or upon your earlier death ) or if that falls on a non working business day the next working day . |
| 13 | Looking through the contents list of the first edition of Observations , I cam across the following titles — ‘ Money from SOED ’ , ‘ Local Authority Support for Teacher Research ’ , ‘ Classroom Observation ’ and ‘ Your Observations ’ , and I realised that the report of a small scale study which I recently submitted to RIU contained all these features . |
| 14 | The SNC agreed to issue an appeal to the UN Secretary-General proposing the quick dispatch of the first group of troops of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) . |
| 15 | Many people still remember — perhaps less painfully in hindsight — the hectic days leading up to the publication of the first list of modules . |
| 16 | After consideration of the first set of results , it would be decided whether to abandon the material or to investigate further . |
| 17 | While none of the first set of ideas may be feasible or even relevant , they can be built on , allowing the flow to continue freely no matter how perverse the line of argument . |
| 18 | While none of the first set of ideas may be feasible or even relevant , they can be built on , allowing the flow to continue freely no matter how perverse the line of argument . |
| 19 | ( 8 ) Until the date of the first renewal of licences provisionally granted under subsection ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above after those licences have been declared final , subsections ( 2 ) to ( 5 ) of section 30 of this Act shall have effect in relation to those licences with the substitution in subsection ( 3 ) of section 30 of a reference to one year instead of the reference to three years . |
| 20 | Nineteen full-time legal practice courses ( replacing the old finals examination and due to start in September 1993 ) were validated in the completion of the first round of validations of course providers . |
| 21 | Obviously it may be too early to answer some of these questions fully , but the fact that I , in common with the majority of arts teachers working in secondary schools in this country , have been grappling with the very difficult process of assessing , marking and moderating the work of the first batch of pupils to take the GCSE examination will , I believe , give added force to some of the things I intend to say . |
| 22 | 2 Notice of the first meeting of creditors |
| 23 | It was the Controller of the Household who later established that no one in authority who was within a reasonable distance of the incident could have realised that the members of the first team of bearers , most of them worthy if nervous burghers of Kinsai , had doctored strung-up nerves with wine and k'miss to such an extent that they were no longer capable of reacting with either fortitude or common sense to the kind of diversions which were now to be expected as part of the rejoicing . |
| 24 | The Mackinnons lived here , on land owned by the Macdonalds , ‘ of the first rank of tenants ’ , Johnson wrote to Mrs Thrale , ‘ where we were entertained better than the landlords ’ . |