Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sixteenth century saw the Ottoman conquest of Hungary , the surrender of the Morea and Cyprus by Venice , the sieges of Malta and Vienna and the battle of Lepanto . |
| 2 | The responsibility which the aristocracy took most seriously was that of political life , and the eighteenth century saw the virtual elimination of the fierce independence shown by Stuart gentry and townsmen , particularly in East Sussex . |
| 3 | The mid-Sixteenth Century found the English mining industry bereft of skill , and of diminished material benefit to the state . |
| 4 | The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West , and also a determined effort by the papacy to reform the Church . |
| 5 | In a driving snowstorm , the German 77th Brigade crossed the flooded Meuse at Brabant and Champneuville , redeeming its earlier failure . |
| 6 | The eighth century saw the wholesale introduction of Chinese political institutions , religious ideas and legal theory , as well as Chinese educational practice . |
| 7 | The fifteenth century saw the final phase of Gothic architecture in France , when many richly ornamented buildings were erected in the flamboyant style . |
| 8 | John Major 's first budget pleased the Tory party but scared the financial markets . |
| 9 | The Ayrshire Cattle Society was founded in 1877 and its first herdbook published the following year , but there continued to be conflict between those who bred for show and those who bred for commercial production . |
| 10 | The first bomb rocked the 26-storey Bombay Stock Exchange , smashing windows and sending shards of glass lancing across the busy trading floor . |
| 11 | The first bomb rocked the 26-storey Bombay Stock Exchange , smashing windows and sending shards of glass lancing across the busy trading floor . |
| 12 | In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade . |
| 13 | Candidates eliminated in the first round included the current President , Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the PCT , and interim Prime Minister André Milongo . |
| 14 | That first incident started the never-ending process of strengthening and sanctifying the Created God . |
| 15 | The First Pilot raised the small blaster in his left foot . |
| 16 | Few stations of the first generation survived the vast increase of railway traffic , but some did and they are well worth seeing Railways added a vast amount of detail to the English landscape , besides manipulating it at times on a large scale . |
| 17 | The stone church built by St Wilfrid in the seventh century enlarged the small monastery of which he was the second abbot . |
| 18 | Aloud he said , ‘ Is Fergus completely lost to us ? ’ and for the first time saw the golden-eyed creature hesitate . |
| 19 | Despite Kipling 's dictum that " Never the twain shall meet " , the East had reached out and touched the West with a premonition , perhaps , of the planetary holism which was to grip our minds less than a century later when we walked on the moon , looked back , and for the first time saw the whole earth rising as a single bubble of life . |
| 20 | On death row in San Quentin , California , Maureen Timmins for the first time met the convicted murderer she 's convinced is innocent . |
| 21 | The pressures on space created in Nottingham ( q.v. ) by the rapid expansion of the lace industry in the nineteenth century caused the partial dispersal of the work to other towns within easy reach of the chief centre , and Beeston was one of the main beneficiaries . |
| 22 | The Illyrian Movement which developed during the early nineteenth century adopted the idealistic stance that all Slavs were one people , with four dialects Russian , Czech , Polish and Illyrian . |
| 23 | Behind much of the theology of the nineteenth century stood the towering figures of Kant and Hegel . |
| 24 | Dalton in the opening years of the nineteenth century introduced the atomic theory , which gave a theoretical background to the ideas of definite proportions : if definite numbers of atoms of each element combine , then the total weights combining must also be definite . |
| 25 | As the twentieth century progressed the family-owned firm became less and less important in British capitalism . |
| 26 | This is not to say that the twentieth century saw the total disappearance of open opposition to democracy . |
| 27 | Scientific discovery and the disillusionment of the twentieth century made the future look less interesting than the nature of time itself . |
| 28 | It was the Church , and more specifically the papacy , as Ullmann pointed out , that from the mid-eighth century kept the Roman law alive in the West by its own transmission and absorption of Roman law and Roman law principles of government , and in particular in the imperial idea which the papacy began to foster from the end of that century . |
| 29 | The next chapter saw the Prime Minister , Toshiki Kaifu , being questioned in parliament about the £2,000 he is alleged to have received . |
| 30 | The third defendant became the managing director of C.M.C. at or soon after its incorporation . |