Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeremy Taylor 's The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying ( 1651 ) continued to be a well-loved book of solace and meditation throughout the nineteenth century ; seven editions were published by Pickerings , and Rivingtons brought out a new edition as late as 1889 . |
| 2 | Colonic transit was similarly assessed with the four colonic segments and effluent as the fifth segment . |
| 3 | There are underprivileged individuals and groups in the First World , as well as in the Third and Second Worlds . |
| 4 | The traditions and attitudes of the seventeenth century were also continued in the importance attached , particularly in the first half of this period , to questions of diplomatic precedence . |
| 5 | Oxford and Swindon in the first clash of '93 . |
| 6 | And erm one of the girls that was on there became a very very famous soprano in the country , erm Connie Shackelock you 've probably not heard of her , she 's sort of a bit before your time but er she always used to sing Land of Hope and Glory on the last night of the Proms a few years ago . |
| 7 | But what the District continued to seek was the 90% grant which the WEA 's national negotiators had raised unsuccessfully with the Ministry in 1954 and early 1955 : this goal became a recurrent theme of District meetings and literature through the second half of the decade . |
| 8 | At Birkbeck , Joyce passed the intermediate examination for his BA and then read English language and literature for the second part of his degree . |
| 9 | Yet fifty years after Ramsey 's book a good judge of religious thought and literature during the twentieth century declared it to be an enduring masterpiece , which pointed forward to the road which Anglicans and not only Anglicans would follow . |
| 10 | Enjoy the wit and ingenuity of the 20th century automata . |
| 11 | For the first in the series , seventy paintings from the Museum of Modern Art in New York have been loaned to form a survey of the key movements and artists of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | For a thousand years there has been a manor on this site , which belonged to Hesdins , Wriothosleys , Badds and Worgans until the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Then capping it all is a ceiling of absolute if intricate formality , a prelude and preparation to the first floor rooms that were never to be worked . |
| 14 | The general value of practical placements and projects during the first degree stage is becoming more widely recognized . |
| 15 | They are , in short , symbols of eminence and are normally granted only to peers and knights of the first class of the orders of chivalry — although some baronets also have armorial supporters . |
| 16 | The parquet of the floors alternates with stone and the colours of the walls were chosen after innumerable trials : mostly pale grey and tobacco brown , with pale green for the Neo-classical works and terracotta for the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | The clouds have dropped down over the mountain so that the evangelicals and charismatics on the first contour above the town have vanished into the mist . |
| 18 | It will include access ramps for the disabled , new heating , fire alarm and fire detection systems and toilets on the first floor . |
| 19 | Yet , as the British returned to Menorca as holiday-makers and emigrants during the 20th century , cricket returned with them . |
| 20 | The result is an instrument that comes as close as is possible in the late 20th century to making the sounds the composers and musicians of the 16th century expected to hear . |
| 21 | The last week in August 1939 saw the 1st Bucks Battalion , still members of the 145th Infantry Brigade and part of the 48th Division , just returned from the annual camp at Lavant , near Chichester . |
| 22 | These were thrown down by the Persian invaders in 480 , and shattered remains preserved for us in terraces and foundations of the fifth century . |
| 23 | Burco Ltd produces and sells two products : X and Y. During the last year 700 labour hours were worked and the operating results were as follows : |
| 24 | Images and objects from the 18th century onwards illustrate the traditions of market day alongside associated activities such as butchery , wool trading or brewing . |
| 25 | I was turned around and frog-marched to the last flight of stairs leading to the foyer , then thrown down the last six steps . |
| 26 | None the less the sheer ability and enthusiasm of the first generation established the value of the MRO and the important contribution he or she could bring to teachers and schools , both primary and secondary . |
| 27 | The dances of the Concerti da camera ( Nos. 9–12 ) are engagingly portrayed , as you will quickly find in the Allemande and Corrente of the Ninth Concerto , for example , and there are some pleasing arabesques from the plucked string continuo . |
| 28 | Instead they have imaginatively reconstructed the imaginary town 's historical development over eight centuries : from the time that the first stone buildings would have been erected , through the period of canal-building and land-reclamation in the seventeenth century , to the twentieth century with its emphasis on the development of ‘ a comfortable urbanity ’ , exemplified by turn-of-the-century villas . |
| 29 | Where the Toffler of The Third Wave was confident about the future , albeit with the ‘ smokestack ’ politicians and institutions of the second wave of mass society in its way , this Toffler is hesitant , fearful of violence , repression , global instability and the yearnings for a new Dark Age . |
| 30 | King Hussein visited Iceland , Canada , the USA , France and Germany during the first half of March . |