Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money which in the sixteenth century had played merely a marginal , though a necessary part , now became the one thing necessary for the maintenance of life … |
| 2 | These meetings were often passionate affairs : the deadening decorum which in the twentieth century has come to be identified with religious gatherings did not prevail in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | However , it was precisely the lack of consensus about Thebes ' — or anybody else 's — leadership which in the fifth century led to federalism of so unusual and developed a kind , and which gave Boiotia the cohesion , and the manpower , to defeat Sparta at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 4 | In 1651 the Dutch republic forbade its diplomats to accept gifts from foreign governments ; and in 1692 regulations were issued in Sweden which for the first time specified the value of those to be given to foreign representatives on their departure . |
| 5 | We 'll all get one sixth that 's dealt with one pizza what about the next pizza ? |
| 6 | Graffiti around his house sneer ‘ Ustasha ’ , the name of the puppet government which during the last war collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 7 | Her heart sank as she remembered the phone call which for the first time began to make sense . |
| 8 | Below me were Ribblehead and the viaduct , while to my right was Ingleborough which for the first time in days looked fresh and green instead of glowering and grey . |
| 9 | This was an adaptation , evolved by the courts , of the writ of account which from the thirteenth century had been available against bailiffs , factors and receivers . |
| 10 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 11 | Shortly afterwards Metzinger published an article in the literary review Pan on the work of Picasso , Braque , Le Fauconnier and Delaunay in which he proclaimed a new type of painting which for the first time broke with hellenic traditions . |
| 12 | Behind the showroom was the Farrs ' house which on the first floor extended to the street . |
| 13 | Female friendship is expressed in fiction and especially in letters through language which by the mid-eighteenth century used terms of ecstasy almost by convention : |
| 14 | Moreover , since there is no irreducible kernel of class interest which in the last analysis guides all else , the ideas , the culture , the religion of a given society may well play a critical role in explaining social and political development . |
| 15 | A consciousness of belonging to a coherent professional group was both expressed and strengthened by the appearance , from the mid-nineteenth century onwards , of guides and yearbooks which for the first time listed the diplomats and foreign office officials in the service of most of the European states . |