Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While other people waste time injecting their five-second expertise into decisions which do not call for their real expertise , the Profitboss gets ahead with his own expert profit-orientated decisions . |
| 2 | Scott 's instructions to proceed with working drawings followed on 17th March with a request for a list of builders willing to tender for the work . |
| 3 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 4 | This followed an armistice agreement signed by representatives of France and the Democratic Republic the previous day accepting the division of the country along the 17th parallel with a demilitarised zone between . |
| 5 | Charlotte , who has seen more than 20 prime ministers come and go in Britain since she was born in 1877 , received her 15th telegram from the Queen . |
| 6 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 7 | Altogether , Glasgow provided 26 battalions , like the 15th , 16th , and 17th battallions of the HLI , the latter including many members of the Tramways department , becoming known as the ‘ Tramways Battalion ’ . |
| 8 | The remains of Colinton Castle built in 16th and 17th centuries including the fine dovecot can still be seen in the grounds of Merchiston Castle School . |
| 9 | It offered itself also as an ideology of movement against aspects — abolitionists feared and hoped symptomatic aspects — of the established system of the later eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries without requiring confrontation with the central features of the metropolitan order . |
| 10 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 11 | In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews . |
| 12 | An alternative explanation here tested is that while many of the key-types are of great antiquity , the majority of so-called local designs were fixed and standardized in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a result of inter-firm competition based on product differentiation and changes in the methods of marketing and distribution . |
| 13 | The criteria for discrimination are very variable and when European writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at last began to realize ( perhaps inadvisedly ) that the word religion might be applied to other systems of thought besides Christianity this was one of the factors on which the classification of religions was based . |
| 14 | Similarly , estimates based on parish records suggest that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on average about 19 per cent of all families with children were lone-parent families ( Snell and Millar , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | The collection spans the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries with sheets by 199 artists , more than half of whom are new to the gallery ( including Peruzzi , Ribalta , Coypel , Schinkel , Landseer , Doré and Alma-Tadema ) . |
| 16 | There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the chasm which was to grow up between the established Anglican church of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with its close links to the powerful secular state and English nonconformity with its tenacity and separateness , than to contrast the pride and grandeur of Wren 's St Paul 's with the humbleness and lack of pretension of Jordans meeting-house . |
| 17 | Scotland 's population was very mobile in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with high levels of migration abroad and , within Scotland , from rural areas to the towns . |
| 18 | The first major survey of French art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be shown in London for many years will open at the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery on 24 March ( to 11 July ) . |
| 19 | Winter frosts would have annually disrupted the surfaces , as happened to the coach roads of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries before the invention of Mr Macadam ; the end result would have been a series of monumental ruts and pot-holes . |
| 20 | Marx himself used the example of the destruction of Indian cotton manufacturing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by British capital using the ‘ battering rams of cheap prices ’ . |
| 21 | It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf . |
| 22 | Most county record offices will have estate plans showing parks in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in considerable detail . |
| 23 | They were first stated in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in terms of combining weights . |
| 24 | Ian took over in 1974 and will soon be celebrating his 90th programme in the chair . |
| 25 | Air Touring of Biggin Hill , Aerospatiale 's English distributors , kindly lent us Golf Bravo Lima Yankee Delta , the 518th aircraft off the production line , some 1300 hours into its life for the task . |
| 26 | Its narrator 's confessional outpourings are given an ironic descant by his obsession with James Buchanan , the 15th President of the US . |
| 27 | Their realism wo n't help you explain a hundredth part of the real events which have actually occurred . |
| 28 | Sir Walter Raleigh said that the incomes entered in the subsidy books represented ‘ not the hundredth part of our wealth ’ . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) A member of a licensing board who holds a disqualifying interest in a company shall not take part in any proceedings before the board in which that company is an applicant or an objector , and in this subsection " disqualifying interest " means a beneficial interest in shares or stocks of a close company within the meaning of section 282 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 which have a total nominal value exceeding £ 50 or which amount to more than one hundredth part of the nominal value of the issued share capital , or stock , as the case may be , of the company or any class of such capital or stock . |
| 30 | Like most labels , it 's amusing and it 's slick and it tells about a hundredth part of the story . |