Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Corinthias celebrated the fall of the Bacchiad tyrants in the sixth century by building the great temple of Apollo — and also by reorganizing and strengthening their tribal system . |
| 2 | In addition , NeXT 's Portable Distributed Objects system for distributing applications across a network will enable NeXTStep objects to be deployed on HP-UX servers from the end of the year ; the company 's NetInfo network management software will interoperate with Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView system management tools and will also be available on HP-UX servers from the fourth quarter of this year . |
| 3 | In addition , Next 's Portable Distributed Objects system for distributing applications across a network will allow NextStep objects to be deployed on HP-UX servers from the end of the year ; the company 's NetInfo network management software will be integrated with HP 's OpenView system management tools and will also be available on HP-UX servers from the fourth quarter of this year . |
| 4 | It is a lyre-horned breed which was originally white with red muzzle and ears and a few red freckles on the sides , but the use of Ayrshire bulls during the nineteenth century increased the area of red in the coat and in the 1970s the use of NRF bulls darkened the colour cline to the brindle or red lineback of today . |
| 5 | P&O EUROPEAN FERRIES ( Portsmouth ) are acting as Principal Sponsor of the Chichester Festivities for the third year running . |
| 6 | Japan 's Constitution , drawn up under United States auspices after the Second World War , had limited the country 's military activities to self-defence , in recognition of the Japanese aggression in the region during the 1930s and 1940s , and the possibility of changing this had caused considerable consternation among various South and East Asian countries . |
| 7 | HGCA figures for the first half of the 1992–93 season show Ipswich exporting ten per cent of all British wheat . |
| 8 | As prepared to leave the Basingstoke premises for the last time , she said : ‘ While it is difficult to take in the reality of the situation after all this time , we are delighted that the initials continue to have prominence under a new and synergetic banner . ’ |
| 9 | Meanwhile , former Newcastle midfielder Phil Mason , 21 , aims to crown his fightback from a life-threatening car crash two years ago by helping Blyth Spartans into the second round at Southport 's expense . |
| 10 | The Diary of Samuel Pepys , 11 vols. , 1970–83 ; Violet A. Rowe , Sir Henry Vane the Younger , 1970 ; B. Bailyn , The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century , 1955 ; Public Record Office , E.351 , Declared Accounts , Navy ; PROB/11/PCC 47 Penn , 129 North , 174 Pett . ] |
| 11 | The right results could see the East Anglians overhaul faltering favourites Blackburn Rovers for the first time . |
| 12 | No doubt the Alderney and the Guernsey had a shared ancestry : both islands were colonised by Normandy monks in the eleventh century . |
| 13 | The effects of this move were that in 1990 Hungary 's trade with the European Communities ( EC ) was expected to exceed that with Hungary 's COMECON partners for the first time . |
| 14 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
| 15 | Between them , Worcester men in the first half of the seventeenth century had at least 100 different occupations . |
| 16 | More than 50,000 passengers used Braathens services in the first year more than double the airline 's predictions . |
| 17 | And let's not forget that Waqar shot out the first four England batsmen in the second innings at The Oval with a new ball — and he was scarcely getting it off line . |
| 18 | Dorset Dishes of the 17th Century , edited from MS. receipt books and published by J. Stevens Cox , The Toucan Press , Guernsey , 1967 |
| 19 | Quoted in Dorset Dishes of the 18th Century , edited by J. Stevens Cox , published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society , Dorchester , 1961 |
| 20 | From Dorset Dishes of the 18th Century , already quoted above . |
| 21 | Acquisition of the Macedonian mines in the mid-second century B.C. brought in further notable gold resources and these were still further enlarged by Trajan 's conquest of Dacia early in the second century A.D. |
| 22 | His patrons , the Fuggers , the Wall Street tycoons of the sixteenth century , were a similarly ruthless lot . |
| 23 | He served in the Queen 's Own Cameron Highlanders during the last war and has since held many executive positions which have brought prosperity and jobs to Scotland . |
| 24 | At Vergina in 1977 the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos , excavating the royal Macedonian graves of the fourth century BC at Vergina , found a bronze tripod dating from the mid-fifth century . |
| 25 | Then in the 89th minute Ian Muir , who had replaced Kenny Irons in the 65th minute , combined well with Chris Malkin and volleyed home superbly past Cherry in the 89th minute . |
| 26 | Any one of these teams could inflict more damage than a wing of Luftwaffe bombers in the Second World War . |
| 27 | And speedway action returns to Oxford tonight as the Cheetahs try to takes the sting out of the Coventry Bees for the second time in a week . |
| 28 | Since the election of the Tory Government of 1979 , which allowed the pound to rise on the back of North Sea oil in the early eighties and left British industry defenceless in the face of foreign competition , or ( according to your point of view ) exposed its inefficiency ( Vic inclines to the first view , but in certain moods will admit the force of the second ) , one-third of all the engineering companies in the West Midlands have closed down . |
| 29 | There was also a major upset in Ballymena , where the DUP lost control of the council to the Ulster Unionists for the first time in 15 years . |
| 30 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |