Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [conj] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The floor , laid down between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , is now largely roped off from the thousands of tourists who visit the basilica each month .
2 The route has now taken a bit of hammering with a Yugoslav bagging the third ascent and Sean Myles and Andy Pollitt steaming in for the fourth and fifth ascents soon afterwards .
3 Rostand had grown rich on the royalties from his astonishing verse drama , Cyrano de Bergerac , which was first performed in 1897 and so successfully that its author was reportedly made a knight of the Légion d'Honneur on the opening night in between the fourth and fifth acts .
4 Ampofo was being outboxed , but then amazingly put his opponent down in the third and fifth rounds .
5 So who 's coming down on the eleventh or twelfth of November ?
6 ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations .
7 ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ .
8 It was also found that C-terminal flanking sequence down to the 127th or 165th amino acid residue slightly stimulated the activity of clone 1–110 .
9 Gilford forged a three-stoke lead when he chipped in at the seventh but first Spence , with birdies at the tenth and eleventh , then Ames with strikes at the fourteenth and fifteenth , cut his lead to only one .
10 Kevin Tamati 's men led 24-2 at the break with Coleman going over in the 32nd and 34th minutes .
11 The oral tradition lived on into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries .
12 Summing up on the first and second reasons , it is evident that the main objection to Article 86 legislation is that business does not relish the prospect of fines for abuse of monopoly power , because it would have to take competition policy more seriously in future .
13 The rest we had to transport up to the second and fourth floors , up steep , dark steps !
14 Going back inside the house , the two staircases up to the first and second floors were dark as neither had windows , the only light available came from open bedroom doors .
15 Things will really hot up around the 12th or 14th — just remember your worth ; your time and talents must be bough and paid for in full .
16 Independent fieldwork for an honours thesis is carried out between the third and fourth years of study .
17 He listened to Nigel Cramer for several minutes , nodded and gave his own orders to the dozen men who had clambered out of the second and third helicopters .
18 The basic requirement is for a carry flag , a one-bit processor register which is set according to whether or not carry occurs out of the accumulator during an arithmetic operation ; the carry is out of the left-hand or next to the left-hand bit position , depending on whether the left-hand bit Position participates in multiple.length arithmetic or not .
19 ‘ I 'm just really happy I was able to come back in the second and third sets , ’ said Sukova , who held three set points in the first set , including two in the tie-break , before Sanchez took the decider 9–7 .
20 Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade .
21 There , in this country , more so than any other country in Europe , there 's a tradition of adults abusing children quite legitimately as well in the form of beating them and erm indeed headmasters of Eton back in the eighteenth and nineteenth century were often selected , not because of their scholarly ability , but because of their size and strength .
22 The system of Heliopolis can be traced back to the Second and Third Dynasties .
23 The docu-drama then has Erik taking the girl , played by west Belfast actress Cheryl O'Dwyer , back to the eight and ninth centuries when the Vikings invaded and settled in Ireland .
24 The first known use of carburisation and quenching of iron dates back to the eleventh and tenth centuries BC in Cyprus and Palestine .
25 This housed oriental manuscripts , many of poetry , mysticism and jurisprudence , going back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries .
26 Some of the property dates back to the fifteenth or sixteenth century and have old world gardens .
27 Old maps help , especially if they go back to the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries , and surveys of earthworks can also show early elements .
28 The origins of Coombe House lie in the 14th century ( the surrounding farms date back to the 10th and 11th ) ; today it is a Georgian building with an attractive garden , the perimeter of which has been left to flourish without the interfering hand of man .
29 He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for .
30 All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people .
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