Example sentences of "[prep] [art] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact to judge the book as a whole in determining if it was obscene had generally been the practice in law for the hundred years since the Hicklin case . |
| 2 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 3 | During the hundred years or so after Constantine Christianity could be a passport to office , power , and wealth . |
| 4 | A similar approach has been used in the attempt to define the extent of the Celtic kingdoms in Britain during the hundred years before the Roman conquest of AD43 ( fig. 7 ) . |
| 5 | The trams have had events of their own to celebrate during the hundred years , generally firsts , rather than lasts . |
| 6 | If , then , we recall that there were degrees of nobility and aristocracy , we can admit that the leadership of French and English armies during the Hundred Years War was very largely noble . |
| 7 | This is a fortified church , because during the Hundred Years ' War the walls were raised and a chemin de ronde or covered battlement was added all the way round the building , deducible from outside from the row of arched apertures for the defenders set close together under the roof-line , like large pigeon-holes . |
| 8 | Kit 's success would make Rebecca 's father rich , much richer than the family had ever been since the squandering of the fortune made in the service of the Earl of Warwick during the Hundred Years War . |
| 9 | Kentish archers were considered among the finest in the country and it is not unlikely that archers from Halling were present with Lord Cobham during the Hundred Years War and also at Agincourt , where the archers of Kent were in the fore front and played a major part in the defeat of the French Cavalry . |
| 10 | ‘ They were fortified towns built in the Middle Ages , some by the French and some by the English , from which they preyed on each other , particularly during the Hundred Years ’ War between our countries . |
| 11 | In fact , during the Hundred Years War ( 1337 to 1453 ) , the people of Bordeaux took the English side , and many of the vineyards were destroyed in revenge . |
| 12 | After one hundred polls he started again from one , and the teller marked off the hundred votes . |
| 13 | After a hundred lines of the coarsest prose the final juxtaposition shows a gap of ethos as wide as that between Troilus and Pandarus , but more threatening : Her intended customer is the nobleman Lysimachus , and to begin with Marina speaks a docile prose with the bawds ( IV.vi.51ff. ) , continuing with aggressive word-play in order to shame Lysimachus into naming the vice he is engaged upon ( 66–91 ) . |
| 14 | So there 's there we are , and these are ten metres each time , so ten , twenty , thirty and let's say after after a hundred metres fifty forty . |
| 15 | After a hundred metres you 've got The Chair , that 's where The Chair is . |
| 16 | He had no clues to its mystery but those contained in Chant 's letter , and after a hundred readings they were exhausted . |
| 17 | After a hundred years of true blue Conservative control , the electors decided they wanted a change . |
| 18 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 19 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 20 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 21 | But I think I 'd actually like to support that idea , I think we ought to er er write back to them and say it 's a splendid idea , erm let's have more of it and and thank you to the local government commission for s er seeing to this after a hundred years . |
| 22 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 23 | After a hundred miles or so , she came off the motorway to pick up fuel and drink a cup of coffee . |
| 24 | After a hundred yards , I ask , ‘ Different ? |
| 25 | And eighty of the hundred women here say , yes , despite the responsibilities which have been outlined , they would go for parenthood . |
| 26 | The Museum is on the eastern spit of one of the hundred islands that make up the city of Leningrad , and the spit links two of its six hundred and twenty bridges . |
| 27 | If only he had pushed his advantage home the night the Dorking brothers gave their party ( ‘ The Night of the Hundred Cans ' , as it was still known in Wimbledon ) . |
| 28 | The history of the hundred hectares is as extraordinary as the place itself . |
| 29 | Fifty of the hundred questions set by Dr. DAVID FORD of the ‘ Aquarian Advisory Service in the 1992 round are shown below , with an explanation of the answers expected . |
| 30 | the heroes of the Hundred Savings |