Example sentences of "[pron] in [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of childbirth , which in the nineteenth century so often proved fatal , there was a certain disposition — at least among males — to believe that to relieve the pains of labour would be to interfere with what had been divinely preordained ; indeed the Bible could be quoted to this effect . |
| 2 | The technique by which in the fourth century B.C. the Chronicler rewrote and modernized the Books of Kings reminds us of the technique by which in the late fourth century Ephorus and Theopompus rewrote and modernized Herodotus and Thucydides . |
| 3 | Mills kicked himself in the 13th minute when he missed from two yards . |
| 4 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 5 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 6 | Several different views have been put forward ; we shall consider them in the next chapter under three headings : |
| 7 | We betrayed the Arabs over the Balfa declaration , we betrayed them after they cleared Africa and the Middle East under Lawrence , we betrayed them in the last war when they backed our rear and allowed the ninth army , and I was there , to join the eighth army and get out , and directly the last war was over , we betrayed them again — there 's a complete betrayal of the Arabs in the Middle East . |
| 8 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |
| 9 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 10 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 11 | well I suppose their motto is , she had a C D ten on her driving licence , I suppose she should n't of had it in the first place so if she had n't of had it , he would n't of got it ! |