Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high . |
| 2 | Studies in the Coinages of the Eleventh Century ( 1981 ) , pp. 211ff ( a die chain between imitative coins with different mint names ) ; R. Reece , Coinage in Roman Britain ( 1987 ) ( the study of site finds ) ; T. R. Volk in G. Depeyrot , T. Hackens and G. Moucharte ( eds . ) , |
| 3 | Graham served in the RAF during the Second World War and it was under the war-time ‘ guesting ’ arrangement that he first turned out for Palace . |
| 4 | TOM joined the family business as the fourth generation and served in the RAF during the second world war . |
| 5 | Our American Allies were all out to see this job through and were full of stories of the RAF on the first trip which was so successful and were even more sure that the second run would be better . |
| 6 | KINGS CLIFFE AIRFIELD was seconded from the RAF by the 20th Fighter Group of the USAAF 8th Air Force which flew P38 Lightnings and , later , P51 Mustangs on bomber escort duties . |
| 7 | I should be grateful if you would amend the small advertisement for the B.A.E.C. at the next time of insertion so that the last part reads : ‘ For details , write to the Secretary , . |
| 8 | They then received conditioning trials with the light as the CS in a third context ( C ) . |
| 9 | At the seventh session of talks , on March 14 , an agreement was reached to establish the JNCC within the next week . |
| 10 | This field either contains the PSN of the last entry in this bundle assigned on that basis ( restricting the range of the search ) or contains a negative value indicating that there are no more entries of the kind in this bundle . |
| 11 | We are preparing to move back to the States within the next month , and we will miss all of those persons who have made our stay at QP a pleasant one . |
| 12 | Radical Palestinian groups claimed that the US decision demonstrated that the path of moderation adopted by the PLO at the 19th session of the Palestine National Council ( the Palestinian " parliament in exile " ) in November 1988 [ see p. 36438 ] was redundant . |
| 13 | Moreover the style faithfully mirrors the puerility of the content : to think that the barons who faced King John at Runnymede were anything like the Cokes or Hampdens who challenged the royal prerogative of the Stuarts in the seventeenth century , or that these in turn had much or anything in common with Sam and John Adams or Tom Paine , is to adopt the notorious ‘ Whig interpretation ’ of English history in a sort of parody version for grade school . |
| 14 | AS the ideological gulf between Moscow and Bucharest yawns ever wider , the Romanian leader , President Nicolae Ceausescu , has raised the potentially explosive issue of former Romanian territories annexed by the Kremlin during the second world war . |
| 15 | The UGT on May 1 held parades and demonstrations jointly with the CCOO for the first time in many years . |
| 16 | By the Tuesday of the first week , Cassie knew that she could not stay at Rose Cottage any longer . |
| 17 | We crossed the western main line by a bridge to get to the G.W.S. Outside the first shed was King George V. We went to see the broad gauge track layout with the transit shed and broad gauge signal and after that took a look at the carriage shed which contained some clerestory coaches . |
| 18 | Furniture and furnishings in Parma show a strong French influence , too , being Parmesan adaptations of the Empire style ; and the local dialect has numerous words which are purely French ( although these must have been imported at an earlier time , perhaps under the Bourbons in the eighteenth century ) — armoir for armadio ( a wardrobe ) , vin for vino , boucho for tappo ( a cork ) , artichaut for carciofo ( an artichoke ) , and so on . |
| 19 | Undoubtedly land-use practices influence flooding and erosion , but ignoring the impact of natural processes in the search for a human scapegoat is not going to pre-empt the potential land crisis of the Himalaya in the twenty-first century . |
| 20 | Poor , silly Ma Norris , who had never been quite right since her three sons were killed on the Somme in the last war . |
| 21 | I 've played it fast and loose before , and on the rare occasions when I 've disobeyed orders ( in the Rhineland during the First Crusade , in a little whorehouse in the backstreets of Byzantium , and on a cargo ship bearing perfumes from Punt ) I have come up smelling of roses . |
| 22 | There is nothing like this countryside in the England of the twentieth century ( though rural Ireland is somewhat similar ) . |
| 23 | So , for example , in the England of the seventeenth century , Anglicans , Puritans , Presbyterians and others all made the same appeal to the Bible ; but their different convictions about what the Bible was chiefly saying often seemed more prominent than their shared allegiance to it . |
| 24 | This is why Leavis recommends that students be prescribed a piece of extended work dealing with the process of change by which " the England of the seventeenth century " became the " England of today " . " |
| 25 | In the interests of maintaining " fair competition " between public and private providers and the efficient use of capital , a system of capital charges was introduced into the NHS for the first time , and all hospitals were made responsible for meeting the interest and depreciation costs of their existing assets and new investment . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , after the Romans left in the 4th century , very little is known of the inhabitants of the area until the arrival of the Normans in the 11th century . |
| 27 | The first stone ridge was built over the Vltava in the 12th century . |
| 28 | On Saturday lunchtime people will be standing six and seven deep here as the crews from Oxford and Cambridge take to the Thames for the 135th University Boat Race . |
| 29 | Leaving Mongolia aside , the leaders of each country are the linear descendants of ‘ Muscovite ’ Communists , sheltered in the USSR during the Second World War and brought to power in the van of the Red Army : in times of friction , it takes little to remind Eastern Europe 's leaders not only how their bread is buttered , but how they got into the larder in the first place . |
| 30 | The Church of St Helen , in Bishopsgate , which has been wrecked , survived both the Great Fire and the efforts of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War . |