Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently scientists did not move around as they do today , or even in the 19th century , and local learned societies and journals flourished . |
| 2 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 3 | But there are copious indications that already in the eleventh century , and perhaps long before , money played a part at least as important as labour . |
| 4 | Hove , however , came back more determined than ever in the second half . |
| 5 | The population of Portadown increased more than tenfold in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Although later in the fourteenth century some limits were placed upon the vulnerable houses , those outside royal patronage which had once yielded to pressure had forfeited their immunity . |
| 7 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 8 | Recent research has shown that even in the thirteenth century the peasantry were participating much more actively in the monied economy than had previously been supposed . |
| 9 | But it is certain that even in the thirteenth century the Viscounts did not forget their Cornish connection . |
| 10 | It 's now quite sterile yet still manages to be immensely variable — to such a degree that even in the 18th century , gardeners thought all crocuses might simply be variants of it . |
| 11 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 12 | None of the studies presents an operative model ( Rosener , in our opinion , comes closest , but her model , as she shows herself , is more heuristic than empirical ) , and so in the next section a model will be set out and explained in the light of the evaluation criteria for participation and effectiveness put forward in the first two sections of this paper . |
| 13 | It can also be said that , unlike Winckelmann , Hölderlin has some intuitive appreciation of the Greek spirit 's darker depths to which Nietzsche will later attach the name " flionysiac " — although Hölderlin gives them no such definition , and only in the last draft of his unfinished dramatic poem , The Death of Empedocles , do these depths receive a comparably urgent emphasis . |
| 14 | In this period of cultural technology , and especially in the nineteenth century , the reproducibility of print was very much ahead of most other kinds of artistic reproduction , and this made the question of property in the work acute . |
| 15 | Consequently , childbearing is concentrated within the first decade of married life ( 84 per cent of births within marriage in 1956–60 , 92 per cent in 1976 ) , and especially in the second half of the decade — 33 per cent of births occurred in the fifth to the ninth years of marriage in 1976 compared to 26 per cent in 1951–5 ( figure 4.11 ) . |
| 16 | This met with some opposition , for there were those who regarded music with suspicion because of its ‘ human ’ origins and its consequent unworthiness for the offering of pure worship , Nevertheless , hymns grew in favour in succeeding years and especially in the first part of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | It will be objected that what I am suggesting will be the death of ‘ standards ’ in schools , and especially in the sixth form . |
| 18 | These recent proposals reflect Moscow 's current priority to retrench economically and militarily in the Third World . |
| 19 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 20 | And over in the last verse in that chapter it says , he who believes in the son , has eternal life but he who does not obey the son , shall not see life , but the wrath of God abides on him . |
| 21 | The railways in America could be built very quickly and cheaply in the nineteenth century partly because of the efficiency of the timber trestle bridge . |
| 22 | So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch . |
| 23 | In 1705 he wrote that he doubted whether he would see the winter through and early in the next year he died , leaving a last , unfinished letter to his young friend . |
| 24 | The equitable rules about penalties were , however , to a large extent already introduced into the Common Law Courts by statutes passed at the end of the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | The piston itself is a rectangular hardwood board 15½ × 8 × ¾in , which moves back and forth in the first chamber , pushed ( or pulled ) by two ½in rods which extend through one end of the bellows and are joined on the outside by a handle . |
| 26 | The PMDL is described in more detail and formally in the next paragraph . |
| 27 | Its west façade was rebuilt in the eighteenth and also in the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | The pathos lies in the characteristic early English understatement — ‘ so seldom ’ means ‘ never ’ or worse still ‘ just this once ’ — and also in the last phrase 's suspense between precision and vagueness . |
| 29 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 30 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |