Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [num] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was a theme that was to be taken up by mediators between the two kingdoms until the outbreak of the Hundred Years War .
2 We have no other details of this aspect of Anglo-French relations before the outbreak of the Hundred Years War .
3 The outbreak of the Hundred Years War itself was not unconnected with intrigues on behalf of men such as Robert of Artois in which northern Frenchmen had important vested interests .
4 Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships .
5 The effect of the six weeks time limit will be considered within the general context of exclusion of remedies .
6 This was reduced from eight to six years by the Court of Appeal in 1990 , but the court then ruled that his remaining two grounds of appeal could not be argued in the light of the 1984 Lords decision .
7 I refer , or course , to the pitiful coverage of the Five Nations Championship provided by the corporation .
8 In May , fund-raisers will be pounding the streets from Alexandra Pottery to the Barlaston Pavilion Club in a sponsored walk or run and during June and July organisers hope to take advantage of the Six Towns Celebration .
9 THE CAUSES AND PROGRESS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR
10 Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings .
11 GAIL DEVERS , winner of the 100 metres sprint , saw a second gold medal cruelly ripped from her grasp yesterday .
12 In the case of the Hundred Years War , the causes of the conflict were to be found both in the long historic links between England and France , links which were gradually becoming weaker , and in the need to express in new terms the relationship between the two countries ( arguably the two most powerful in western society in the late Middle Ages ) taking into account elements such as national consciousness and diverging methods of government ( to name but two ) which historians recognise as being characteristic of late medieval European society as a whole .
13 This would apply , for example , in the case of nominees and controlled companies and also ( as in the case of the 1985 Companies Act ) where there is a written agreement relating to the exercise of voting rights in concert ; the test of control is , in general terms , a subsidiary test rather than the UK 's present one-third voting-power test , which can therefore be continued .
14 The armoury was founded by Altgraf Ernst Salentin ( 1621–84 ) who inherited and began restoring the castle in 1645 following the damage of the Thirty Years War .
15 The Museums and Galleries Commission is hoping that these considerations will lead the Charity Commissioners to reconsider their decision under the cy-pres ( i.e. next best thing ) provision of the 1960 Charities Act , which allows a charitable bequest or trust to be altered where the original stipulation is no longer relevant .
16 The first XI have gained promotion to the 1st Division of the four Counties League .
17 We wish to express our deep concern with regard to the proposed ending of the twenty years tax concession granted to mining companies operating in this State , by the Government .
18 Yet , the fact remains that , although we are dealing with an age when history was not decided by battles at sea , the first major battle of the Hundred Years War was fought at sea in June 1340 .
19 Brown says the lack of network transparency and support for Display Postscript compares unfavourably to the flexibility of the X Windows system offered by Unix .
20 When a respondent , in reply to the ‘ who am I ? ’ question of the Twenty Statements Test writes ‘ I am a man ’ , ‘ I am a student ’ … it is reasonable to believe that we have far more solid knowledge of the attitudes which organize and direct his behaviour than if , on a checklist and among other questions , we had asked ‘ do you think of yourself as a man ? ’
21 Peter III was personally responsible for the abrupt cessation of hostilities against a prostrate Prussia in the midst of the Seven Years War .
22 Er three months and at six months and then again at sort of the twelve months time
23 At the most critical moment of the Seven Years War it amounted to 4.4 per cent of the total population of the country , the highest proportion of this kind reached in any State during the century .
24 In December 1959 Congress announced the cancellation of the B-70 weapons system , leaving NAA with only permission to proceed with a single XB-70 prototype .
25 Traditionally the period of the Hundred Years War has been regarded as the time when the crown of France made great steps forward towards the achievement of a policy of centralisation begun under the Capetians some two centuries earlier .
26 The emergence of a Five Nations cup , a handsome piece of silverware has signalled the end of an era .
27 Above The Abbey Hotel in Great Malvern , venue of the 1993 CUBs conference
28 Plans to make this the theme of the 1993 rights meeting follows the decision of the fair organisers to allocate electronic publishing a special area of its own at Frankfurt for the first time this year .
29 England , who won the Home Countries Under-18 Championship last weekend , take on Spain in their opening match of the six nations tournament which gets under way at Clifton College and Clerical Medical Sports Ground , Bristol , today , writes Cathy Harris .
30 Tracking the selectorial spoor had left one convinced that , going into the last day of the Five Nations championship , Scotland had ten players still very much in the running .
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