Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes its name from Betchworth Castle , a medieval mansion that was altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but is now a ruin . |
| 2 | That appeal was heard between the 10th and 19th of July . |
| 3 | The first category , compare and contrast positive and negatives , involves a comparison between positive and negative adjectives describing the person used together to form the final opinion ; for example , ‘ [ I ] weighed all good points against all bad points ’ or ‘ as far as I was able to tell , every person was described by three positive/favourable adjectives and three negative/unfavourable ones … just as an impression was formed it was negated by the 5th or 6th words , giving it a cancelling out effect . |
| 4 | Those that remain in villages are the survivors of a larger number of such groupings which were much reduced by the policy of enclosing open fields which was pursued during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 5 | Originally built by order of Constança Rodriguez , the wife of Zarco , it was rebuilt in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 6 | Its west façade was rebuilt in the eighteenth and also in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | They started to put up big screens behind the altar blocking off some of the stained glass and writing on those big screens the Creed or the Lord 's Prayer in English , which was done in the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 8 | The house was built between the third and fourth centuries and was located less than three feet underground . |
| 9 | The great campanile , over 300 feet in height , was built between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 10 | A distinction was drawn in the eleventh and twelfth centuries between ordinary homage and ‘ liege ’ homage . |
| 11 | Consensus was reached with the third and current criterion : that each solicitor must have ‘ substantial criminal experience . ’ |
| 12 | Publication was stimulated by the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century revival of interest in folk customs , and accounts from many places throughout the British Isles and beyond are to be found in published collections , often by county . |
| 13 | Constantine the Great , it is true , gave the bishops a more substantial role in the administration of justice , but this was reduced during the fourth and fifth centuries . |
| 14 | Accordingly , the AKT was administered during the first and last of the group sessions and constituted a straightforward method for evaluating the success of the first course objective : specifically , to increase participants ' alcohol knowledge so that future alcohol use can be more informed and therefore more prudent . |
| 15 | In reality , however , the Russians ' ’ higher , culture was represented in the seventeenth and eighteenth century by soldiers ( men of service ) and colonial administrators out for personal gain , and by peasants , whose building-tools were of the simplest — the axe , gouge and spokeshave ( although they could do wonders with these ) . |
| 16 | The development of such trading centres is only relevant here in as far as they point to the direction in which economy was evolving in the sixth and seventh centuries . |
| 17 | Sometimes referred to as the " book-cover " or Koran design ( pl. 34 ) because it was evolved during the 15th and 16th centuries from the magnificent tooled leather covers used to bind the Koran ; these had themselves been inspired by the inside of a mosque dome , with its central boss and intricately decorated surround . |
| 18 | The wooded slopes of the mountains inland from Dalmatia supported forests of oak and pine , in contrast to the barren interior , which lay behind the southern ( African ) shore of the Mediterranean , where the Arab empire was established in the seventh and eighth centuries . |
| 19 | The framework for the investigation of ‘ sensory coding ’ was established in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when the business of explaining perception was transformed into the more specific project of correlating the physical properties of perceived objects and events with patterns of activity in the nervous system and the latter with the subjective properties of the experience : |