Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church . |
| 2 | The officially published diaries of Ceauşescu 's engagements reveal that Yasser Arafat was his most frequent guest : on average they met six times a year and saw each other for the last time only a month before the revolution . |
| 3 | During the first century AD a number of homesteads on islands and in coastal regions were fortified , possibly against Roman slave traders . |
| 4 | By the middle of the first century AD a less restrained taste prevailed in idealised art as in portraiture . |
| 5 | Here Trogus introduces a note of realism which is echoed by Livy when he describes how at the beginning of the second century B.c. a third of the Greeks of Ampurias — a secondary settlement of the same Phocaeans — manned their walls every night in fear of the neighbouring Jberians ( 34.9 ) . |
| 6 | From the middle of the eighteenth century onwards a growing chorus of voices had championed the creation of a professional police . |
| 7 | from the seventeenth century onwards a version of the Manchurian house with hypocausts became widespread among the peoples of the Amur . |
| 8 | Little wonder then that the Forest system was heartily detested by all classes of the king 's subjects , and that from the twelfth century onward a bitter and determined struggle was carried on between Crown and people for its abolition . |
| 9 | Rebuilt in the twelfth century over a sixth century site the Church of S. Theodore is square in plan excluding a double narthex at one end and the bema at the other . |
| 10 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 11 | By the first century BC a straight-edged Greek cloak , often made of fine cloth , had become fashionable for men and women . |