Example sentences of "to the fourth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is not enough time to meet even short-term demands for preparation , marking , report-writing , sorting out pupils ' disputes and clearing up heat-of-the-moment misunderstandings with colleagues , let alone to invest in the longer-term necessities of clearing the backlog of paperwork , replying to letters , ordering supplies , planning schemes of work , reorganizing last year 's course , thinking about what your tutor group can contribute to the fourth year assembly , setting up a meeting with the educational psychologist about Jessica , and spending some time with the word processor manual . |
| 2 | A roman coin belonging to the fourth year of the reign of Diocletian , AD 287 , was found on an island in Finlaggan Loch and one wonders how it got there . |
| 3 | Admission to the fourth year of an honours course depends on performance in previous ( usually third year ) courses . |
| 4 | An ordinary BSc degree may be taken at the end of the third year but the majority of students proceed to the fourth year of the BEng honours degree . |
| 5 | We rode to the fourth floor , the doors slid open , we regarded each other in silence from our chosen corners , the doors slid to , and by the time we returned to the ground floor divorce was forgotten and the marriage reconsummated . |
| 6 | He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment . |
| 7 | Then I came to the fourth floor landing and Toby 's door opened and there he was . |
| 8 | Instead of getting out at her own floor she went on up to the fourth floor , and stood in front of Matthew Prescott 's front door . |
| 9 | They walked to the lift and went up to the fourth floor . |
| 10 | ‘ Take the lift to the fourth floor . ’ |
| 11 | Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift . |
| 12 | He descended to the fourth floor platform and stopped to scrutinise the dimly lit , fog shrouded alley below , searching keen eyed for signs of the hidden watcher he knew would be there . |
| 13 | He seemed edgy and ill at ease and as they took the lift up to the fourth floor and stepped out into the corridor his eyes darted from side to side as if he was terrified at what he might be about to see . |
| 14 | Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working . |
| 15 | E. D. Vinogradoff has shown how local agrarian social and economic conditions shaped the collective political behaviour of peasants elected to the Fourth State Duma . |
| 16 | For the sequentiality , the " and then " sense of and in sentences like ( 32 ) , is simply a standard implicature due to the fourth sub-maxim of Manner , which provides a pragmatic overlay on the semantic content of and wherever descriptions of two events , which might be sequentially ordered , are conjoined . |
| 17 | We tend nowadays to see these generations not merely in terms of the underlying electronic technology , but also in terms of the organization of the hardware and software involved in a computer system ; thus the transition to the fourth generation can be seen more as a change in the way that computer systems are organized ( with the use of such techniques as virtual storage and distributed intelligence ) , than as a change in the underlying technology . |
| 18 | In the seventeen-forties Philip Miller acted as adviser to the Fourth Duke of Bedford at his Woburn estate . |
| 19 | TINDAL C.J. : The only question now remaining is upon the demurrer to the fourth plea . |
| 20 | Second replication to the fourth plea , that the agreement was in the terms of and contained in the letter set out above . |
| 21 | Demurrer to the replication to the fourth plea . |
| 22 | ERLE C.J. : The question raised by the demurrer to the replication to the fourth plea is , whether there was a consideration to support the action on the promise to pay an annuity of £150 per annum … … . |
| 23 | BYLES J. ( dissenting ) : I am of opinion that the defendant is entitled to the judgment of the court on the demurrer to the second replication to the fourth plea . |
| 24 | He does , indeed , make an attempt to meet this difficulty , by alleging , in the replication to the fourth plea , that he married relying on the testator 's promise ; but he shrinks from alleging , that though he had promised to marry before the testator 's promise to him , nevertheless , he would have broken his engagement , and would not have married without the testator 's promise . |
| 25 | In spite of William 's immediate miss that allowed Hudson his second escape , the West Indies still made up some ground when Kenneth Benjamin and Jimmy Adams acquired their first Test wickets just before tea through cut shots that were edged to Lara at first slip ; Peter Kirsten off Benjamin , a powerfully-built fast bowler with a method not unlike Colin Croft 's in the wide angle of delivery , and Hansie Cronje to the fourth ball from Adams , whose left-arm spin had been restricted to seven wicketless overs all season . |
| 26 | ( b ) The other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years of age and the actor is a member of the same household as the victim , the actor is related to the victim by blood or affinity to the fourth degree to the victim , or the actor is in a position of authority over the victim and used this authority to coerce the victim to submit . |
| 27 | ( b ) That other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years of age and the actor is a member of the same household as the victim , or is related by blood or affinity to the fourth degree to the victim , or is in a position of authority over the victim and the actor used this authority to coerce the victim to submit . |
| 28 | There were other polled cattle in Ireland throughout the ages : the ‘ maol ’ ( hornless ) types are referred to in traditional cattle-raiding stories which in some cases can be traced back to the fourth century , and remains of polled cattle have been found ( along with small , horned Kerry types ) at archaeological sites dating back three to four thousand years . |
| 29 | The remaining evidence is all later than this , ranging from late classical law ( Ulpian ) to the fourth century , the early post-classical period of the Epitome of Ulpian and the sententiae of Paul . |
| 30 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |