Example sentences of "[num ord] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they and th , what I am saying is they produce , they produce stuff like the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth , do n't be fooled because their kids have n't got enough to eat and stuff |
| 2 | Two days earlier , at the 168th and last general congregation , 2,392 Council fathers had been present . |
| 3 | The history of the poor law between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries was one of attempts to make this formula work — for local initiative with broad guidelines laid down centrally — despite social changes . |
| 4 | Elizabethan musicians and dancers have been taking to the streets to publicise a meeting between queens from the sixteenth and twentieth century this weekend . |
| 5 | It is in this more informal context that his draft for a sixteenth and ironical discourse should be read . |
| 6 | These animals , introduced by pirates and whalers between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries , denude the vegetation and compete with the giant tortoise ( Geochelone elephantopus ) . |
| 7 | In Western Europe this change has been located anywhere between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 8 | First , it is necessary to take account of changes in the scale of societies , whether brought about by a growth of population or by political and military means , as in the creation of nation states out of numerous smaller units in Western Europe between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries ( see Chapter 5 ) or in the process of imperialist conquest and expansion . |
| 9 | The historical reality during the sixteenth and much of the seventeenth centuries was usually some kind of amalgam , such as that expressed by Martin Luther in his evaluation of alchemy : As the earthly alchemist purified through fire , leaving the dregs at the bottom of the furnace , so , at the Day of Judgment , the divine alchemist would separate all things through fire , the righteous from the ungodly . |
| 10 | In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this jurisdiction was abandoned by the Chancellor and passed to the Court of Star Chamber . |
| 11 | Presentments for breaches of these purlieu laws were from time to time made at the Essex swanimotes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 12 | In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this cursive italic style gained ground as an alternative to secretary , although as Hector says ( op cit ) , ‘ By 1600 it was being written with such magnificent disregard of any calligraphical rules that it might be illegible to the writer 's contemporaries and compatriots . ’ |
| 13 | Clare Gittings suggests that one of the many reasons why embalming decreased during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was distaste on the part of the nobility — not so much with the practice itself as with the thought of having so many surgeons , apothecaries and wax-chandlers poring over a body at any one time . |
| 14 | Although both the credal and experimental forms of predestinarianism may now appear harsh and inflexible creeds , during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries they accorded well with the political and social realities of life in England . |
| 15 | In essence , Protestantism was a religion of the literate , and although educational opportunities continued to expand during the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , illiteracy , which was commonplace throughout the country and particularly evident in rural areas and among women , continued to exclude the majority of the laity from a full understanding of their new faith . |
| 16 | This sort of approach suited the violent attitudes of the age : as much money was invested in expeditions for private warfare against Spain as in all the trading and land-settling companies of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 17 | Japan experienced a brief period of European contact in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , but in 1639 the government of Japan , the Tokugawa ( Edo ) Bakufu , effectively severed all contact with the West . |
| 18 | It has been shown above that , on the basis of the careers of a number of Muftis in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , one might tentatively conclude that by that time it was as a practical matter desirable , if not absolutely necessary , to have taught on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn in order to have a chance to attain the highest office in the learned profession . |
| 19 | Widespread looting of the kind which had disfigured almost every war of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was very largely brought under control in this period ( in the interests of discipline rather than humanity ) . |
| 20 | Tillyard engages with the mid-twentieth century as he does with the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 21 | During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries tenants throughout the realm had found that custom did not always give them the protection that they believed they had . |
| 22 | During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries all the fishermen and most of the bargemen were freemen of fairly high status ; their homes were modest yet comfortable and they held their property on leases for years at a low annual rent but high entry fine . |
| 23 | He absorbed European culture through nineteenth-century French novels , and through the literature of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain , the Spanish cultural Golden Age . |
| 24 | The work of these revisionists has also done much to advance our knowledge of the intricacies of sixteenth and seventeenth-century theology . |
| 25 | In short , during the past four hundred years the lemon has become , in cooking , the condiment which has largely replaced the vinegar , the verjuice ( preserved juice of green grapes ) , the pomegranate juice , the bitter orange juice , the mustard and wine compounds which were the acidifiers poured so freely into the cooking pots of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe . |
| 26 | Approximately 20 million healthy young Africans were forcibly transported as slaves to the ‘ new world ’ between the sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries , and this had a critical effect on Africa 's own development . |
| 27 | He argues that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many artists adopted versions of the Aristotelian theory which asserted that colours are a mixture of black and white in different proportions . |
| 28 | There are a number of surviving features from that Old Bicester , mostly found near the Market Place , including half-timbered sixteenth and seventeenth century houses , two coaching inns — The Kings Arms and the Swan — and , above all , St. Edburg 's church with its proud pinnacled tower . |
| 29 | The house is built on an ‘ L ’ shape , and though it evolved gradually over the fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the whole gives a uniquely harmonious appearance , which must stem from the use all those years ago of essentially local materials which can not but blend . |
| 30 | ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . ) |