Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeman plugged away with constant strikes and both his colleagues joined in on the 17th end when continued Brackley accuracy brought the game to a premature conclusion . |
| 2 | ‘ Major Bagshot accompanied Bonzo to the 15th green where he found a ball and a complete set of Henry Cotton ‘ St Andrew 's ’ clubs lying , abandoned . |
| 3 | Nothing better illustrates the change in English religious life produced by the nineteenth century than the proximity of the Wesleyans ' new Central Hall to the Anglicans ' new Church House ( put up between 1891 and 1902 ) and the Roman Catholics ' Westminster Cathedral further down Victoria Street . |
| 4 | west London ; much less important in the nineteenth century than it is now , Oxford Street runs east-west , dividing Mayfair to the south from Marylebone to the north . |
| 5 | The scene was more reminiscent of the nineteenth century than the twenty-first . |
| 6 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |
| 7 | This responsiveness of the specialist press to popular tastes remained extremely important throughout the nineteenth century as modern organized sports came into being . |
| 8 | This was more so in the nineteenth century as Nonconformity grew stronger and more involved in the mainstream of national life , but it had always been the case . |
| 9 | Timber staithes remain at this port on the River Tyne , some of the last such structures built in the nineteenth century as wharves for unloading coal from the railway on to waiting ships . |
| 10 | It accelerated in the nineteenth century as industrialisation took place , and increased even more rapidly in the twentieth century under the impact of advanced technology and science . |
| 11 | Monarchy was as widely taken for granted at the end of the nineteenth century as is universal suffrage today . |
| 12 | But it would not be difficult to construct post hoc explanations for fertility decline occurring earlier in the nineteenth century as well . |
| 13 | The portrait sometimes drawn of middle-class women of the nineteenth century as proto-modernisers , the forerunners of the sexually liberated American housewife of the late twentieth century , is therefore misleading . |
| 14 | Indeed , apparently traditional flail-threshing barns continued to be built throughout the nineteenth century because of their ability to house the threshing machine as well as the crops . |
| 15 | The official statistics for this period are not directly comparable with those of the nineteenth century because they represent all cases known to the authorities less those cases which the police believed false . |
| 16 | It is easy to see this in the nineteenth century because the development of local government reflected economic organization and the political processes which derived from it . |
| 17 | However , many pieces are unworthy and ungrammatical , and are likely to join the dusty piles of discarded music in vestry cupboards , produced in great quantities in the nineteenth century because of the relative ease of finding publishers . |
| 18 | In Hampstead : Building a Borough , 1650–1964 ( 1974 ) Professor F. M. L. Thompson has shown how the old settlement preserved its isolated character well into the nineteenth century because it lay off the main lines of communication out of the capital . |
| 19 | They remained common amongst the poor in Wales and Scotland well into the nineteenth century though they occasioned bafflement amongst middle-class observers . |
| 20 | This is equivalent to obtaining one tableau from the other by pivoting in the jth column while ( 9.8 ) has a non-negative solution with . |
| 21 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 22 | Pride held shut the gates of Famagusta until the fourteenth day after Epiphany had expired without bringing rescue . |
| 23 | While the widespread building of town walls in the second half of the fourteenth century provided a measure of safety against marauding forces ( even against the Companies ) , such fortifications could not be ignored by an enemy bent upon conquest . |
| 24 | For most of the period , from the first conquests in the fourteenth century until the rise of the South Slav nationalist movements in the nineteenth century , the empire was either preparing for a war against its Christian neighbours , fighting a war or recovering from a war . |
| 25 | ( c. 1235–1296 ) , judge , was probably born in or before 1235 in Shropshire , perhaps at Hopton Castle , which his family had held since at least the mid-twelfth century as major knightly tenants of the honour of Clun . |
| 26 | According to Ali , the Ayasofya medrese was already a 60-akce medrese In Mehmed II 's time ; and it appears generally to have been the case that it and , from the time of Bayezid II , the medrese of Murad II in Bursa ( the Muradiye ) and , more particularly , that of Bayezid II himself in Edirne , completed in 893/1488 , ranked higher in the first half of the sixteenth century than the Sahn in the sense that the muderrises appointed to them were normally promoted from the Sahn . |
| 27 | It is far easier to trace one 's ancestors in the second half of the sixteenth century than in the Middle Ages , and the information that can be collected is usually much fuller than before . |
| 28 | This teleological approach , which presents revolutions of the sixteenth century as failed attempts to realise the political programmes of the Enlightenment , runs through Le Roy Ladurie 's work , and informs his attitude to specific classes of phenomena . |
| 29 | Two prehistoric cairns stand above what was described in the sixteenth century as |
| 30 | He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett . |