Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 High Aragon was a region of poor crops and migrant flocks — some of the biggest transhumante flocks of the nineteenth century belonged to Aragonese magnates and villages .
2 Criminal justice systems in the nineteenth century developed along neo-classical lines .
3 In the province of Punjab the most important economic change of the nineteenth century came with British colonialism .
4 As the science of the nineteenth century advanced in analytical skills , it became increasingly possible to tie down results to specific plants and the chemicals therein , until a pure chemical could be prescribed for a particular symptom .
5 For the French the peace of the last years of the fourteenth century led to little more than the need to garrison their frontiers .
6 Estimates based on contemporary data suggest that about 90 per cent of the population of the Balkans in the sixteenth century lived in rural areas .
7 The second unit looks at formal developments in modern European theatre .
8 The second half began with some of the most remarkable scenes I have ever witnessed at a football match .
9 Well the second half started with United in tremendous form ; they pushed more and more men forward , they won two consecutive corners , they really started to get on top , but then , with forty minutes of the second half gone , Spurs scored that all important third goal .
10 So the second half settled into sophisticated rioting , with a tiny medieval version of Old McDonald 's Farm , sung with incredible vivacity by Milne , and Liu Qi-Chao 's so-na solo , Harvesting Plums — a noisy family row for instruments uncannily like klaxons .
11 Chicago showed enough life early in the second half to get within seven points of the Bucs , but ended up scoring only 35 points to Tampa Bay 's 42 , the most points scored against the Bears since 1981 .
12 West Ham doing so well in the second division went to first division Luton , and by half time they were in front , a Pariss goal after forty three minutes , but Luton hit back in the seventieth minute through Black , and these two sides must replay .
13 The CM-1300 is the second system introduced in three months from Tandem 's development partnership with NCR Corp and NCR added it as a new StarServer FT .
14 The second part dealt with mixed foil and stated that the ownership of the sellers would transfer from the foil used in the manufacture to the finished products and that these would remain the property of the sellers until full payment had been made to them .
15 The second part consists of ten exercises based on the filmed sequences and providing wide-ranging language practice .
16 The second part looks at mixed numeric/character data files .
17 The second problem comes with negative numbers .
18 The second principle used in tone-unit boundary identification is a rhythmical one : it is claimed that within the tone-unit , speech has a regular rhythm , but that rhythm is broken or interrupted at the tone-unit boundary .
19 To transfer the first 5,626 papers that came to hand would mean ignoring the 8,907 other papers on which Paisley was placed first , and the system reasonably requires that the second preferences expressed on those papers should also be taken into account .
20 On behalf of the father and the grandmother it is pointed out that the justices have specifically found that they have no doubt as to the care the grandparents could give the children and the second question raised by this appeal depends on that finding .
21 If the defining practice of a lawyer is translation , how then is the second question addressed by this paper answered ?
22 Mr Letts is the second guard killed in 25 years .
23 Then , if unc is the isolating row vector , we form unc Here unc is the first column of A except that the leading element unc is diminished by 1 ; thus the first column of unc is identical with that of A , while the ( n — 1 ) remaining columns are those of I. By Theorem IX of 1.22 unc Next we evaluate ( this step is not quite so simple ) unc so that unc Here unc is the second column of A but with the second element reduced by 1 ; unc and unc is the second element of unc Further steps follow this pattern and are obvious .
24 The second element consists of certain ways of relating to other people .
25 That was the third angry walkout in one biological day , and the second threat to resign in less than a bio-week .
26 TODAY racing followers were also in the money when Pot Luck struck for the second day running with two winning Placepot lines for a profit of over £50 at Doncaster .
27 In other words , Abingdon Weir Slalom was blessed for the second year running with good weather and moving water .
28 Manchester United registered an astonishing double for the second year running as Welsh whizz-kid Ryan Giggs won the Young Player of the Year title .
29 The second project focuses on renewable energy research , and covers such topics as solar , biogas , mini-hydro and geothermal energy .
30 The second slice came after 34 minutes .
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