Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To elderly people with long memories Korea connoted a localised crisis at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries resulting from the decline of the Ch'ing dynasty in China , the landward expansion of the Russian empire , and the beginning of the Japanese colonial empire in the Far East . |
| 2 | At the height of Britain 's imperial role , at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of this century , there was a considerable outflow of investment , in the form of both direct investment and financial investment by the City in foreign bonds and securities . |
| 3 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 4 | An important surviving example of a British Line other ranks ' regimental jacket of the 8th or King 's Regiment , c.1822 , is illustrated , and described by the Chairman of the Regimental Museum Committee . |
| 5 | The Italian ( GlSSI ) study was one of the first where treatment was administered soon after the onset of symptoms to patients suspected of having an acute myocardial infarction . " |
| 6 | Thus it was at London , Bristol , Liverpool , Hull and Glasgow in the last years of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century that a " lagged response " to the great increase in trade was concentrated . |
| 7 | A senior officer , when employed , was able to place young men in the line of command by securing their entry as midshipmen , an appointment which became increasingly in demand with the expansion of the navy during the wars against France at the end of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 8 | At the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century , in the years of Spanish rule , the fort was completed . |
| 9 | While , therefore , the first generation of English Protestants had found the new Protestant liturgy a pale shadow of earlier Catholic ceremonial , there is every indication that by the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries their children and grandchildren had become firmly wedded to the Protestant services of the Prayer Book . |
| 10 | Along the first and centre lines make marks every 6 mm . |
| 11 | Along the first and centre lines make marks every 6 mm . |
| 12 | For reasons of classification and sample size , not all the headings in Tables 3.1 and 3.2 are comparable , and law is omitted from the first and medicine from the second . |
| 13 | Added to all this , to keep cannon , mangonels , battering-rams and other siege-engines at a safe distance from the first or gatehouse tower , an artificial trench had been excavated across the approach headland . |
| 14 | But the power to do so , which was usually — and contemptuously — referred to as magic , had been waning in the Fifth since Chant had first arrived . |
| 15 | Versatile Rodber , who can play in the second or back row , will continue his club career at Northampton . |
| 16 | Fidelity has a 2 per cent front-end fee and exit charges on a sliding scale — 3 per cent in the first year , 2 per cent in the second , 1 per cent in the third and zero thereafter . |
| 17 | There is spiritual value in the very handling of its primary elements to write a little song or dance , even an exercise ; even , as Bruckner used to show his classes , in a fifth or octave struck at a piano . |
| 18 | It is about a guy struggling from one crisis to the next and part of the appeal is that he is not particularly likeable , so you do n't mind seeing him get a rough deal , but like an awkward Grandfather you hopethings will turn out OK . |
| 19 | Then on to the next house where they slyly accept a poster and bin it as soon as your back is turned ; and then to the next where support is promised if only your party in exchange guarantees to persecute , imprison and preferably execute certain categories of non-white-skinned people . |
| 20 | It was the same story on the 30th and frustration mounted amongst the crews , by the end of June Ramsay had flown 18 operations and had become well established on the Squadron as one of the most accurate navigators . |
| 21 | The gallant struggle against overwhelming odds which the rifle companies fought on the 27th and Battalion HQ Company continued until the evening of the 28th , will forever remain a landmark in the history of the Battalion and Regiment . |
| 22 | He has a tattoo of a swallow on his upper left arm and on his left hand a diamond on the first finger , heart on the second , club on the third and spade on the fourth . |
| 23 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 24 | But he was elusive , and she could only fill the long minutes with a pretence of animation as she was absorbed into a group of Heather 's relations , something inside her dying by the second as time passed and Luke kept his distance . |