Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 My own favourite example concerns the determination of the atomic and molecular weights of naturally occurring elements and compounds in the nineteenth century .
2 The cross is a masterpiece of red jasper , gold , gilded silver and jewels and dates from the eleventh or twelfth-centuries .
3 There were plenty of thrills and spills as the first round of the East Senior knockout cup got underway .
4 As a great many parishes had invested in new pulpits and lecterns during the fifteenth century , few were erected during Elizabeth 's reign , but following the issuing in 1604 of new ecclesiastical canons which ordered that ‘ a comely and decent pulpit ’ should be kept in every church , the reign of James I saw a notable upsurge in pulpit-building .
5 All traffic will be diverted down York Place , a one way street , and major changes are being planned to bus routes and stops during the next few days .
6 Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War .
7 Yet/in any event we have a firm idea about the most effective path and unreservedly recommend that at the beginning of the project one looks at the list of telephone numbers and addresses on the last page of this brochure .
8 A more intensively studied pathway is that leading from the cerci or paraprocts through the last abdominal ganglion up ascending giant axons in the ventral nerve cord .
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