Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only starts counting from the first row of an entry and stops at the last . |
| 2 | The archway itself is in fine condition and dates from the third century B.C. It forms part of the Etruscan walls to the city and is the best extant example of Etruscan masonry . |
| 3 | This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century . |
| 4 | My own favourite example concerns the determination of the atomic and molecular weights of naturally occurring elements and compounds in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | The building is brick and dates from the fourteenth century , though with later fenestration and entrance doorway . |
| 6 | The cross is a masterpiece of red jasper , gold , gilded silver and jewels and dates from the eleventh or twelfth-centuries . |
| 7 | Teesside Crown Court heard he suffered a black eye and cuts in the first attack . |
| 8 | This brick building replaces a stone Romanesque cathedral and dates from the thirteenth century onwards ( 565 ) . |
| 9 | The Trondheim episcopal palace adjoins the cathedral and dates from the twelfth century . |
| 10 | There were plenty of thrills and spills as the first round of the East Senior knockout cup got underway . |
| 11 | As a great many parishes had invested in new pulpits and lecterns during the fifteenth century , few were erected during Elizabeth 's reign , but following the issuing in 1604 of new ecclesiastical canons which ordered that ‘ a comely and decent pulpit ’ should be kept in every church , the reign of James I saw a notable upsurge in pulpit-building . |
| 12 | All traffic will be diverted down York Place , a one way street , and major changes are being planned to bus routes and stops during the next few days . |
| 13 | Rejected reaffirmation of Labour 's former policy of unilaterally renouncing the use or possession of British nuclear weapons , and the ‘ unconditional removal of all nuclear weapons and nuclear bases from British soil and waters within the first parliament of the next Labour government ’ . |
| 14 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 15 | Yet/in any event we have a firm idea about the most effective path and unreservedly recommend that at the beginning of the project one looks at the list of telephone numbers and addresses on the last page of this brochure . |
| 16 | An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train . |
| 17 | The bowler returns the ball to his own end and prepares for the next delivery . |
| 18 | From then one we are taken through a Druids ' Grove to consider swords , war trumpets , and the bronze shield cover discovered in the River Witham in Lincolnshire and dates from the second century BC . |
| 19 | It has a symbolic broom and drives behind the last man on the road , ready to sweep up those who abandon the race . |
| 20 | He powerslides the car through the right , catches it again off the track and aims towards the next left-hander under full power . |