Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most contemporary feminist politics is somewhere between the first and second stages , that is , it oscillates between deploring and celebrating difference , between the negative and positive motivations I outlined above , without realistically expecting — yet — to transcend current gender divisions . |
| 2 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 3 | Long Valley Lad ( 9.15 ) looks good enough for the first and Kick The Ball ( 9.45 ) has a perfect Trap 6 draw . |
| 4 | Only during the second and subsequent recovery nights do subjects typically show a relative elevation of REM sleep percentage levels . |
| 5 | The tax 's defenders point out that only between a third and a half of church members pay the levy , and then only in proportion to their incomes . |
| 6 | He advanced money , in ever-growing sums , especially during the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars ; and showed great skill in securing repayment , in discounting operations , and in profiting from the high rates of interest which the government had to pay for ready cash . |
| 7 | The floor , laid down between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , is now largely roped off from the thousands of tourists who visit the basilica each month . |
| 8 | The route has now taken a bit of hammering with a Yugoslav bagging the third ascent and Sean Myles and Andy Pollitt steaming in for the fourth and fifth ascents soon afterwards . |
| 9 | This represents an elastic strain or interatomic separation of about 1.0 per cent , perhaps between a tenth and a twentieth of the theoretical strength . |
| 10 | Rostand had grown rich on the royalties from his astonishing verse drama , Cyrano de Bergerac , which was first performed in 1897 and so successfully that its author was reportedly made a knight of the Légion d'Honneur on the opening night in between the fourth and fifth acts . |
| 11 | In recent years , further restoration has been carried out and , though the work is obviously of the nineteenth and twentieth century , a Medieval spirit has been retained . |
| 12 | Owing to the curvature of the bridge , the top two notes only of a three- or four-part chord can be sustained . |
| 13 | The average parish priest was poor and remained so throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : he earned less than a well-paid labourer and was often dependent , in rural parishes , on the sale of eggs and on other minor agricultural pursuits . |
| 14 | He came down with a First and started his civil service career in the humble surroundings of the National Assistance Board . |
| 15 | The reference is to the three cantons ( Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden ) which originally got together to form the Swiss Confederation , along with the fourth that soon joined them , Luzern . |
| 16 | Yet not all such sources have been completely lost , for the historian of Cnut , so ill-served by contemporary records , is more fortunate in those produced after his death , and especially in the late-eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 17 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 18 | Though the Church was the great patron of the Middle Ages , the rising wealth of the merchant classes , especially in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , led to the erection of many fine secular buildings : town halls , trade and guild halls , palaces , manor houses , town mansions and bridges . |
| 19 | Although there are records of floods and sand storms , especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , machair provides both arable and grazing land and it is the focus of most Hebridean crofting agriculture ( Caird , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 21 | It is hard to underestimate the impact of the monasteries , especially in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 22 | Try not to dwell on these too much , especially round the 4th and 19th , when the Moon 's influence could cause you to overreact . |
| 23 | These right-angled bends in the road , whatever the date of the enclosure award may be , reflect some stage in the medieval colonisation of the parish when a new furlong , brought in from the waste perhaps in the twelfth or the thirteenth century , cut across the direct path to the next village and forced it to make a sudden turn for a few yards before resuming its onward course . |
| 24 | So in the third and last soliloquy Richard reminds us of his concealed plot , his ‘ deep intent ’ to kill Clarence — deep to the rest of the world , visible to us and tells us of his further plan to marry Lady Anne ( ‘ What though I kill 'd her husband and her father ? ’ ) . |
| 25 | Were they less so in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries ? |
| 26 | It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built . |
| 27 | Bowe said : ‘ I thought he was crazy not to go down in the 10th when I was beating up on him . |
| 28 | Ampofo was being outboxed , but then amazingly put his opponent down in the third and fifth rounds . |
| 29 | They blended together from the first and there can be no doubt that Harry 's forceful play on the right wing was one of the prime reasons why Simpson was able to crack in so many goals . |
| 30 | It is the angel Gabriel who comes to Charlemagne at the end of the poem , just as Gabriel and Michael — the fighting archangel , whose cult was flourishing anew in the tenth and eleventh centuries — come to Roland to carry his soul to heaven ; the poem is definitely Christian , and an attempt to set a religious seal on knightly glory ; but the knightly glory has in its turn captured the Church , and harnessed it , in the person of the archbishop of Rheims , to the holy war against the infidel . |