Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing surprising , therefore , in the fact that new conceptions should have been formulated — of the ‘ developmentalist ’ state , the ‘ interventionist ’ state , the particular forms of the state in ‘ industrial ’ or ‘ post-industrial ’ societies — or that political development in the twentieth century and its antecedents in the nineteenth century should have been reinterpreted in terms of democracy and totalitarianism , and of the rise of the nation state as well as the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 2 | The army was , of course , to play a recurring part in Spanish political life in the twentieth century with the Nationalist insurrection against the second republic , and before that , the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera from 1923 until 1931 . |
| 3 | Write out a list of local phone numbers and any instructions that the next occupants of your home will find invaluable — like how to open up that funny cupboard in the second bedroom that always sticks . |
| 4 | She had given in because she found him irresistible and , looking at his strong brown back in the first grey light of dawn , she still found him so . |
| 5 | On a turgid turner that had thwarted the seamers ' efforts until the 199th over of the match , Essex required a further 29 to avoid the follow-on on the final morning with four wickets intact , only to be denied by a spell of 3 for 1 in 14 deliveries that ultimately allowed Nick Cook to give the hosts ( and Britannic Assurance Championship leaders ) a right old grilling in the second dig ; but for Ambrose he might never have had the chance . |
| 6 | This document is central to Florentine cultural history in the fifteenth century . |
| 7 | The considerable locational advantages possessed by West Ham which gave rise to its extraordinary growth were to become fetters on the ability of its industry to adapt to a transformed economic environment in the twentieth century . |
| 8 | Some examples of these stories are included , collected from German oral tradition in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | This house believes that the British Govt. was solely responsible for the improvements in the quality of life of the British working class in the 19th Century . |
| 10 | From that point there was no way back for the Prestwick man , and Corsie went on to add another 7-2 win in the third set , thanks mainly to a count of 4 on the third end that finally sealed Gourlay 's fate . |
| 11 | IF BRITISH foreign policy in the 20th century has anything to teach the world , it is how to win important wars and lose the subsequent peace . |
| 12 | The style as a whole points to the continuing exchange of ideas between England and the Continent and also how at this social level in the first half of the seventh century the paramount members of society employed their own craftsmen to produce exotic display items demonstrating their success in leadership ; it also reflects their success in exchange in acquiring the necessary raw materials in large quantities . |
| 13 | It is a rare example of the genre at this social level in the seventeenth century , and a testimony to the power of radical religious belief to inspire resistance to patriarchal authority . |
| 14 | She has already established a number of landmarks in political history and psephology : the first woman Prime Minister in any major western industrial state ; the first leader since Lord Liverpool in the 1820s to win three elections in a row , and Prime Minister for the longest uninterrupted spell in the twentieth century . |
| 15 | From humble beginnings sales have quadrupled and are set for further high growth in the next three years . |
| 16 | Scores of black people played a prominent part in British public life in the nineteenth century , often as members of radical organizations and participants in some of the major political events of the times . |
| 17 | The republic saw brutal ethnic violence in the Second World War , when its wooded hills and lush valleys were transformed into killing fields . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the degree to which a writer complicates his style by applying syntactic transformations might be one linguistic measure of markedness ; we shall consider another such measure in the next section . |
| 19 | Peppered with infinitely quotable one-liners and featuring some seriously over-the-top set-pieces , Lehmann 's film is a relentless attack on the vacuous youth of America , let down by some lame moralising in the last 30 seconds . |
| 20 | We discuss this later version in the next section , but we begin with the first ( and now obsolete ) version of the logogen model since the evolution of the second version from the first is instructive . |
| 21 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 22 | Despite losing winger Carl Gibson with a broken left leg in the 16th minute , Leeds boss Doug Laughton saw his million-pound outlay in the past 15 months reap rich reward . |
| 23 | Alison MacKenzie , second year student of Maths and Computing at Stirling University played hooker for the Scottish national team in the first ever full international women 's rugby match against Ireland . |
| 24 | They had another lucky escape in the second half when Ollie Ralph 's header was headed off the line by David Jeffery . |
| 25 | Dick Crossman was deputy-director of British psychological warfare in the Second World War and knew the murky , ruthless world of intelligence organisations from inside . |
| 26 | STUDENT and part-time chef Michael Pearson has won a top national prize in the first competition he has entered . |
| 27 | After wing Gerald Cordle left the field with a suspected fractured jaw in the eighth minute , they conceded two tries in quick succession . |
| 28 | In fact , we only meet this good man in the last few months of his life . |
| 29 | The transnational capitalist class in the Third World |
| 30 | The transnational capitalist class in the Third World will undoubtedly be connected with foreign TNCs , though its members will not necessarily work for them . |