Example sentences of "[num ord] [coord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest are second- third- or fourth-preference votes that have been allowed in the end to decide the issue between him and his chief rival , Bear . |
| 2 | Two day regional conferences are planned in Nottingham ( 27th Oct ) and Birmingham 17th or 24th Nov ) . |
| 3 | The amount donated in Belfast on 15th & 16th October 1991 was £1,224.42 . |
| 4 | It includes the present D thirty nine site , near to the sixteenth or seventeenth century Skelton Manor House , and it has important archaeological and nature conservation interests as described in reports . |
| 5 | The kanun , included in a late seventeenth-century anthology ( 1095/1684 ) , purports to reflect the practice of the time of Suleyman , but that the kanun in the form published by Uzuncarsili dates from Suleyman 's time must be rejected on the grounds both that many of the kadiliks mentioned did not attain mevleviyet status until the late sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and that two of them Kandiye ( Candia ) and Kamanice ( Kamenets-Podolskiy ) — did not come into Ottoman hands until 1080/ 1669 and 1083/1672 respectively . |
| 6 | Old maps help , especially if they go back to the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries , and surveys of earthworks can also show early elements . |
| 7 | The book is in fact a fourteenth or fifteenth-century forgery of uncertain Crowland authorship , but it is probably based partly on authentic contemporary evidence . |
| 8 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 9 | The evidence , however , is slim , and the logical conclusion — the two-second or five-second commercial — seems far away ; while so-called ‘ subliminal ’ advertising , using flashes of picture or words lasting only fractions of a second , is not only totally unproven as a technique , but banned in most countries where advertising on film is available . |
| 10 | Elizabethan musicians and dancers have been taking to the streets to publicise a meeting between queens from the sixteenth and twentieth century this weekend . |
| 11 | The history of the poor law between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries was one of attempts to make this formula work — for local initiative with broad guidelines laid down centrally — despite social changes . |
| 12 | It is in this more informal context that his draft for a sixteenth and ironical discourse should be read . |
| 13 | These animals , introduced by pirates and whalers between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries , denude the vegetation and compete with the giant tortoise ( Geochelone elephantopus ) . |
| 14 | In Western Europe this change has been located anywhere between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 15 | First , it is necessary to take account of changes in the scale of societies , whether brought about by a growth of population or by political and military means , as in the creation of nation states out of numerous smaller units in Western Europe between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries ( see Chapter 5 ) or in the process of imperialist conquest and expansion . |
| 16 | He absorbed European culture through nineteenth-century French novels , and through the literature of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain , the Spanish cultural Golden Age . |
| 17 | The work of these revisionists has also done much to advance our knowledge of the intricacies of sixteenth and seventeenth-century theology . |
| 18 | In short , during the past four hundred years the lemon has become , in cooking , the condiment which has largely replaced the vinegar , the verjuice ( preserved juice of green grapes ) , the pomegranate juice , the bitter orange juice , the mustard and wine compounds which were the acidifiers poured so freely into the cooking pots of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe . |
| 19 | Approximately 20 million healthy young Africans were forcibly transported as slaves to the ‘ new world ’ between the sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries , and this had a critical effect on Africa 's own development . |
| 20 | There are a number of surviving features from that Old Bicester , mostly found near the Market Place , including half-timbered sixteenth and seventeenth century houses , two coaching inns — The Kings Arms and the Swan — and , above all , St. Edburg 's church with its proud pinnacled tower . |
| 21 | The fortunes of individual towns varied considerably over the sixteenth and seventeenth century but many still bear considerable marks of their former prosperity . |
| 22 | The Byzantine origins and influence dominated much of Russian architecture even into the sixteenth and seventeenth century . |
| 23 | Having found the appropriate register , the researcher is soon faced with fresh difficulties , quite apart from the daunting task of reading sixteenth and seventeenth century scripts . |
| 24 | Many were living in sixteenth and seventeenth century cottages with hardly any mod cons . |
| 25 | Since then , more than £800,000 has been spent in improving matters for the spectators who will flock to the event with improved viewing at the eleventh , fourteenth , fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth holes . |
| 26 | Since then , more than £800,000 has been spent in improving matters for the spectators who will flock to the event with improved viewing at the eleventh , fourteenth , fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth holes . |
| 27 | The eighteenth edition continued changes made in the sixteenth and seventeenth editions . |
| 28 | He argues that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many artists adopted versions of the Aristotelian theory which asserted that colours are a mixture of black and white in different proportions . |
| 29 | The house is built on an ‘ L ’ shape , and though it evolved gradually over the fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the whole gives a uniquely harmonious appearance , which must stem from the use all those years ago of essentially local materials which can not but blend . |
| 30 | ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . ) |