Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is that Fincara will send me and my sisters into the last battle between the light and the dark ; and that we will conquer .
2 The position that was presented by myself and my colleagues at the last er er er at the last last er last meeting was to indicate a higher level of fire cover within the Service that Councillor wanted and the Committees supported the view that we should have a higher level subject to further discussions of the fire of the fire .
3 Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission .
4 There is nothing surprising , therefore , in the fact that new conceptions should have been formulated — of the ‘ developmentalist ’ state , the ‘ interventionist ’ state , the particular forms of the state in ‘ industrial ’ or ‘ post-industrial ’ societies — or that political development in the twentieth century and its antecedents in the nineteenth century should have been reinterpreted in terms of democracy and totalitarianism , and of the rise of the nation state as well as the growth of the socialist movement .
5 The series will cover the history of painting in Britain from Holbein to the present day , in its wider context of European art and its development through the 19th and 20th century .
6 In spite of the fact that there has been a very long tradition of work on rural land use , including the invaluable land use survey of the 1930s ( Stamp , 1962 ) , and its revival in the second survey of the 1960s and 1970s * ( Coleman et al , 1974 ) and much other detailed work from other sources ( Hart , 1980 ; Coppock , 1960a ; Best , 1981 ) as shown in Table 8. 1 , there is still a desperate need ( Hall , 1 974 , 414 ) for a ‘ national Domesday book for land use , preferably updated every 10 years at the time of the population census ’ .
7 The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland .
8 This volume is an attempt to review both the achievements of the Council and its impact upon the next quarter-century .
9 say ( x , y ) — and its coordinates in the second — ( x , y ) .
10 Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence .
11 Elegy is further accompanied ‘ by a diffused , resigned , melancholy sense of the passing of time , of the old order changing and yielding to a new one ’ ; while true of Beowulf and The Idylls of the King this is conspicuously truer of The Return of the King and its dissolution of the Third Age .
12 FREED prisoner Karl Maxwell-Smith flew home to Britain from Thailand yesterday — and met his granddaughter and her mum for the first time .
13 Here her expressive rubato is freer , so that in the first movement the opening theme is more impulsive , and her freedom in the second subject vividly conveys the sort of magic you find in her live performances .
14 She was doing well at St Hilda 's College in Oxford , and her devotion to the Seventh Day Adventist Church gained admiration from the congregation .
15 This study extends the work of a pilot study funded by ESRC ( C/00/23/2220 ) which examined the interaction between dear parents and their infants in the first 12 months of life .
16 Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years .
17 These students had opted to take the stylistics course as part of the Language " track " of their degree ; all were well motivated and their work in the first and second years had revealed that all had demonstrable ability for language study .
18 Gramsci 's Prison Notebooks represent not only a stirring monument to the human spirit under adversity , but a significant turning-point in the history of Marxist ideas and their relevance for the twentieth century .
19 Mid-year , they present the strategic thinking for the next edition of their rolling five-year plan , and in November they present the five-year plan itself and their budget for the next year .
20 2.6 Major Causes of Death and their Control in the Nineteenth Century
21 Their income and their finance for the last year ?
22 Claiming that the full impact of the transitional proposals had not been fully appreciated , Mr Gourlay said : ‘ If these changes are implemented , several of our members will have to reconsider their obligations under existing licences and their applications under the 14th round . ’
23 The modern environmental movement began to emerge during the post-war period , although its initial emphasis was still on protection rather than conservation , and most of the effort was directed towards preserving large animals and their habitats in the Third World .
24 When Dulé and his companions regained the beach , they were so stunned and wearied by the water and the flames , the howling and frantic clangour of their rout , that they dragged themselves and their boat to the first cover they could find , and lay face down against the earth ; they could sense it trembling as if it were an animal alive beneath them .
25 Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture .
26 And it is to be noted that the initial mistake was that of the judge who made his ruling and his reference to the second statement without argument and in unfortunate terms .
27 His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers .
28 His son Graeme must take some of the blame for this , for his approach at the first extra hole found sand and his drive at the second left his father with an uneven stance on a bank .
29 A triumph of the 1991 Avignon Festival the company , Ches Panses Vertes from Picardy , create vivid with sombre imagery of the battlefield with a structure of sand and barbed wire … a mystical garden in which two men re-enact with tiny wire figures some of the experiences of Cendrars and his experiences of Cendrars and his companions during the first year of the 1914–18 war .
30 The Führer , too , had demonstratively donned field-grey at the start of the war , to emphasize his unity with his troops and his image as the first soldier of the Reich , whereas the unpopular Party hacks were often seen as shirkers , avoiding their duty at the Front .
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