Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 2 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 3 | Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular . |
| 4 | Social work has begun to evaluate its effectiveness in the last fifty years , and Sheldon ( 1986 ) has described two separate waves of reviews and researches . |
| 5 | Iran declared its neutrality in the First World war , but most Iranian sympathy lay with German because she was fighting Great Britain and Russia . |
| 6 | Medieval Serbia reached its zenith in the fourteenth century during the reign of Dušan ( 1331–55 ) , who was crowned Tsar ( Emperor ) of ‘ the Serbs and Greeks ’ in Skopje in 1346 . |
| 7 | The Seljuks ' cultural and political dominance was soon overtaken by that of the Ottomans , a more powerful invading force from Central Asia , whose empire reached its peak in the 15th and 16th centuries and whose influence is still in evidence today . |
| 8 | Almost as this detailed organisation reached its peak in the fourteenth century it was , as we shall see , to break irreversibly . |
| 9 | The representative middle-class institution was the family , which reached its apotheosis in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Slowly there emerged the rural three-class system which reached its apogee in the eighteenth century : aristocratic landowners could live in civilised leisure from the rents of tenant farmers who in turn employed landless wage-workers . |
| 11 | GDP actually reached its trough in the second quarter of 1992 , since when it has grown by 0.2% each quarter . |
| 12 | Other measures were announced which it was hoped would enable the Russian government to balance its budget in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 13 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |
| 14 | It could be argued that the best way of dealing with attempted suicide would be to prevent its occurrence in the first place ; but this is not an easy task , and one that often extends beyond the reach of the clinician . |
| 15 | The definitive chassis , designed by Englishman Tony Southgate , is expected to make its debut in the last two WSC races this year . |
| 16 | Pythagoras and his pupils in the sixth century BC taught of the rotation of the Earth , and Archimedes calculated its rotation in the second century BC as scientifically as modern astronomers do now . |
| 17 | Hand signals can be developed to a greater extent to train a dog which is deaf , although there is always the problem of attracting its attention in the first instance , particularly if it runs off . |
| 18 | As the war in Europe neared its end in the last week of April and the first week of May 1945 , Allied armies were closing in on Austria from west , east and south . |
| 19 | All three are [ in different degrees ] illusions , which make the weight of life bearable — to those of sufficient stature to feel its weight in the first place . |