Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the 316th year of the society , but events such as wars with Napoleon , ‘ Kaiser Bill ’ and Hitler have occasionally prevented it from taking place . |
| 2 | On the 17th day of June he left by plane with his section to join his squadron commander in France . |
| 3 | On the 17th day of the month of Ramadan , the anniversary of the murder of Ali , in the year 559 ( 8th August 1164 ) under the ascendancy of Virgo and when the sun was in Cancer , Hasan 2nd ordered the erection of a pulpit in the courtyard of Alamut , facing towards the west , with four great banners of four colours , white , red , yellow and green , at the four corners . |
| 4 | Artemesia Gentileschi was a painter of extraordinary talent , considered in the 17th Century as second only to Caravaggio . |
| 5 | Jim is a hard hitting sort of individual who knows where he is going in racing and he has brought Down Royal , I feel , out of the 17th century into the 20th — not quite the 21st — in a matter of a couple of years . |
| 6 | On the timber side , an enormous selection of old doors ranging from the 17th century to Art Deco is available . |
| 7 | Delft is proud of its association with the Dutch master painter Jan Vermeer and the old town centre has changed little since the 17th century with drawbridges , tree-lined canals , large churches and narrow medieval streets and the view of this quaint red-roofed town from the 100 metre high steeple of the 14th century Nieuw Kerk is worth the climb . |
| 8 | Gnoll Park — A designated Historical Landscape Garden dating from the 17th Century with a reservoir , cascades , lakes and playgrounds , together with many other landscape features . |
| 9 | It is quite acceptable to mix , say , the feeling of the 17th century with the very modern ; country pieces with glass and chrome ; modem bentwood with early Victorian ; a nice Regency side table with a scrubbed pine table . |
| 10 | Long extracts from the inspectors ' reports conjure up the smells of the 17th century in sickening detail : the open graves , the streets piled high with faeces , the butcher 's shop ‘ full of all kinds of filth , excrement , guts and other muck ’ , and so on . |
| 11 | This typical Pennine longhouse with thick stone walls , Viking timbers and mullioned windows was built in the 17th century in a style originated by the Norsemen . |
| 12 | Universal languages and scientific taxonomy in the 17th century by M. M. Slaughter , Cambridge UP , pp 277 , £25 |
| 13 | Greystones opened the scoring in the 17th minute with a try by outhalf Gerry Harvey set-up by a thrust through the centre of the midfield by No 8 Dave Barrett . |
| 14 | Nick Thompson , with his first goal for England in the 17th minute after a good move down the right by Steve Batchelor , started England off . |
| 15 | Among prominent Tory women , Mrs Edwina Currie , 45 , the outspoken former junior Health Minister , rode a determined Labour challenge to retain South Derbyshire with a much-reduced majority while Lady Olga Maitland , 46 , daughter of the 17th Earl of Lauderdale , former gossip columnist and tireless campaigner against nuclear disarmament , held the safe seat of Sutton and Cheam . |
| 16 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |
| 17 | While the men put on their gear Turner checked the position of the 17th green on his map of the course and pin-pointed the target area on his OS map . |
| 18 | This followed an armistice agreement signed by representatives of France and the Democratic Republic the previous day accepting the division of the country along the 17th parallel with a demilitarised zone between . |
| 19 | A total of 13 people were reportedly injured and 90 others arrested following violent confrontations with riot police during ceremonies and demonstrations on Sept. 11 , marking the 17th anniversary of Allende 's death . |
| 20 | According to the Foreign Ministry statement , the former officials were released on April 30 , the 17th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to the communist forces . |
| 21 | At last I made it — to Hong Kong that is , for the 17th playing of the Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Sevens . |
| 22 | Appendix 4 to the 17th Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Community states that ‘ Parliament does not require to be consulted before or during negotiations on a treaty or before a text is initialled ’ . |
| 23 | Mr. Michael Alison ( Second Church Estates Commissioner , representing the Church Commissioners ) : During 1989 the Church Commissioners will be producing a range of publications including their report and accounts for 1988 , the 17th report of the central stipends authority , a series of leaflets describing the work of the Church Commissioners , and a brochure on commended entries for the parsonage design award competition . |
| 24 | Fever for development struck again , this time on the basis of selling a plot of land behind the 17th tee for private use which it was estimated would yield of £1,500–£2,000 . |
| 25 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 26 | The UNMLO deployment was made possible by the relative stability of the 15th ceasefire in the Yugoslav conflict between the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) and Croatia . |
| 27 | Mrs Barzach will have a much more difficult time retaining her seat in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , which she has represented for only the past three years and where she is standing against the well-established local RPR mayor ( and deputy mayor of the capital ) . |
| 28 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |
| 29 | Between the 1st day of July 1987 and the 15th day of October 1987 conspired together and with other persons fraudulently to induce persons to enter into agreements for acquiring or subscribing for securities , namely shares in Blue Arrow plc , by making statements which they knew to be misleading , false or deceptive or by dishonestly concealing material facts or by recklessly making statements which were misleading , false or deceptive namely : 1.1 By failing to notify the Company Announcements Office of the Quotations Department of the International Stock Exchange by way of a Class 2 announcement ( as provided for by Section 6 of the Council of the Stock Exchange 's admission of securities to listing ) following the purchase of shares in Manpower Incorporated for a consideration in excess of 5 per cent of the consolidated net assets of Blue Arrow ; 1.2 By concealing the fact that the level of Acceptances of provisionally allotted new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow was 38.04 per cent at the expiry of the offer by way of rights issue at 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.3 By concealing the fact that 54,625,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow were taken up after 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.4 By falsely stating that , in connection with the rights issue of 504.4 million new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow , acceptances had been received in respect of 246.5 million shares which represented 48.9 per cent of the rights issue . |
| 30 | I was born in 1810 , in September , the 15th day of the month . |