Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And therefore it was wrong because the argument goes that liberalism and nationalism are the great triumphant er ideologies of the nineteenth century and the Vienna settlement 's not only wrong , but it was historically erm in a sense doomed because it was trying to oppose the growing erm unstoppable er ideologies of er erm of er of Europe . |
| 2 | Right , er minutes of the last meeting has anybody brought them with them . |
| 3 | There are three bells in the tower — age unknown — but they were mentioned in the churchwarden 's accounts in the 17th century . |
| 4 | Huguenot refugees from France settled here in what became one of London 's ghettoes in the eighteenth century , and brought their weaving skills with them . |
| 5 | Britain 's opponents in the First Division are the USSR , France , Italy , Sweden and the Netherlands . |
| 6 | Stockport are Liverpool 's opponents in the first round of the National Veterans Knockout Trophy . |
| 7 | De Gaulle 's opponents in the Third Force feared as much . |
| 8 | Sian , 24 , was counting out the day 's takings after the last race when the killer struck . |
| 9 | Arthur Conan Doyle 's experiments with fairies , Professor Johan Zollner 's trips into the Fourth Dimension courtesy of Henry Slade — these not only provide illuminating parallels with current happenings but still , after myriad exposure and confessions , retain their adherents . |
| 10 | But it 's reminded me of one of my father 's books about the First World War , in which the author writes about the demise of a certain kind of army and a certain kind of warfare : cavalries organised in elegant formation for the war of movement . |
| 11 | On Friday 's show Tim will choose one of this week 's winners for the first prize of fish and chips in a Limo with champagne . |
| 12 | The WWF also launched a Caring for the Earth Campaign for Change , seeking pledges from individuals to make personal contributions to the strategy 's goals over the next year by using energy-efficient light bulbs , cutting car mileage by 25 per cent , planting 10 trees and helping to organize recycling initiatives at their workplace . |
| 13 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 14 | There is n't that sudden moment when the music stops and you look into one another 's eyes for the first time , or whatever . |
| 15 | Fei Yen rose slowly , meeting the prince 's eyes for the first time and seeing how quickly he re-directed his gaze . |
| 16 | Strong and justified pressures for a New International Economic Order also make it imperative for the implications of Europe 's relationships with the Third World to be taken into serious account . |
| 17 | Developments such as these were to occupy some of Newton 's successors for the next couple of centuries . |
| 18 | I enjoyed Amanda Archibald 's articles in the last newsletter and I agree with her that the British government and people ( especially the arts and media ) have failed to build pride and patriotism in young people . |
| 19 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 20 | He 's currently developing a play about Lawrence 's experiences in the First World War and he 's been asked to look at Lawrence 's novel Kangaroo , by the BBC . |
| 21 | Won a national competition — well a competition in a national magazine — by imagining how to put together three exceptional outfits for three occasions : a job interview , meeting a partner 's parents for the first time , and addressing a conference . |
| 22 | The volume of beer sold through Greenall 's pubs over the last couple of months has shown a fall on 1988 levels , said the group financial director , Mr Michael Davis , as he unveiled profits up 10.5 per cent to £52million for the year to September . |
| 23 | Using what little facts as she could chronologically find Dei then placed a perspective on this through ’ reading about the time she lived in and finding out about women 's lives in the 17th century Rome . |
| 24 | The first round of the National Clubs competition has now been completed with the holders Linden , of Birmingham , drawn against Nottingham 's Cliftonettes in the second round . |
| 25 | The buildings of the Garden of England are extensively surveyed in Anthony Quiney 's English Domestic Architecture : Kent Houses ( £35 ) , a fully illustrated survey of the county 's buildings from the thirteenth century to the present . |
| 26 | Another archaic art-form known to us only from one find is the gold-and-ivory cult-statue : not on the vast scale of Pheidias 's creations in the next century ( below , p. 102 ) , but fragments of several life-size figures have been found buried under the Sacred Way at Delphi , probably from a burned treasury . |
| 27 | They are most commonly found in women 's graves of the sixth century accompanied by a relatively large quantity of grave-goods . |
| 28 | TREATY : An agreement signed by Europe 's governments as the next step towards political and economic unity . |
| 29 | The report , the product of four years ' work by a special WEC committee , attempts to bring renewable energy sources into the council 's calculations for the first time . |
| 30 | Others pointed to the inevitable and embarrassing shadow the embassy occupation would have cast over next weekend 's celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the founding of East Germany . |