Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The most sophisticated method of tying up land in strict settlement developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries .
2 But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place .
3 A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association .
4 The lawn to the south of the house , shown on a plan by Bourginion , the French surveyor employed to redesign the garden , corresponds almost exactly with the description given in the second edition ( 1733 ) of the Dictionary , where Miller insists on frequent mowing and rolling to keep the grass in good order .
5 A very likely explanation is that it is a form of hyll = hill , found in the West Midlands and the south-west as the Middle English hull , and this in combination with the first syllable forms a byname given in the fourteenth century to a person who lived ‘ up the hill ’ .
6 Now for Tendulkar : how many Test runs will this elegant little genius make in the next dozen years ?
7 This is still some disadvantage for the acquirer because it is more difficult to gain agreement to a change made subsequently than to a provision included in the first draft .
8 CD 's second novel , written for serialization in Richard Bentley 's monthly magazine , Bentley 's Miscellany , of which CD was the first editor , the first instalment appearing in the second issue of Feb. 1837 .
9 Mr Runciman said the first warning of problems came in August when it was realised that a major contract expected in the first half of the financial year was not going to materialise .
10 Currently MainWin can handle only Windows 3.0 programs with 3.1 support expected in the second half .
11 The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting .
12 The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting .
13 So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch .
14 The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers .
15 A second and more fundamental change occurred in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Europe and in the Islamic world , when lead was added to the ingredients for the inlay .
16 In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities .
17 In particular , I am pleased to note a number of important developments stemming from action points in the first Plan .
18 A gastric lymphoma developed in the fourth patient seven years after radiotherapy treatment for Hodgkin 's disease .
19 The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class .
20 It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place .
21 The other was the rule developed in the seventeenth century , whereby claims on a bill of exchange are treated as separate from those on the underlying transaction .
22 The answer to this impasse lies in a third way of knowing , one which is based on presuppositions .
23 Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support .
24 This tragedy occurred in the last Grand Prix race on the old circuit and was won by James Hunt in a McLaren .
25 The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second .
26 This rise in spending will raise national income to £1,010 in period t + 1 and this will cause both consumption and investment to increase in the next period , period t + 2 : Notice that both investment and national income have already risen above the levels reached in the previous example .
27 The maximal effect during the four hour experiment occurred in the fourth hour after administration of cholera toxin ( Tables I-V ) .
28 The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place .
29 The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life .
30 This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra .
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