Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money which in the sixteenth century had played merely a marginal , though a necessary part , now became the one thing necessary for the maintenance of life … |
| 2 | These meetings were often passionate affairs : the deadening decorum which in the twentieth century has come to be identified with religious gatherings did not prevail in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Er I 'll just talk erm just talk briefly about emergency access money , cos this wi this covers one point I in the next session . |
| 4 | Then on the day of issue you address the envelope , stick on the stamps , post it in the First Day Cover posting box , and it will receive a First-Day-of-Issue postmark . |
| 5 | Nick Kirby from Inimex Genetics ( left ) and sale organiser Peter Padfield with the top-priced lots in the fifth Hayleys Invitational Sale , Genesis Leadman Dora ( left ) and Allstar Leadman Marcie . |
| 6 | However , it was precisely the lack of consensus about Thebes ' — or anybody else 's — leadership which in the fifth century led to federalism of so unusual and developed a kind , and which gave Boiotia the cohesion , and the manpower , to defeat Sparta at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 7 | Using this last possibility , Spenser implies that the English acting firmly against Ireland might demonstrate that they have purified the fault which was going to cause Ireland to scourge them in the first place , namely a tameness in executing God 's designs against savage immorality . |
| 8 | Very kind , but international players are supposed to be habitually influential , and it was Hazard who in the second half , with a few incisive passes , gifts from the heavens on a day like this , left a greater mark . |
| 9 | He is an immensely gifted young man who in the first six months of his course has made more high quality pieces of furniture than any student we have had here before . |
| 10 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 11 | They deny their own law , denying my right , and the precedent is there to stead them in the next encroachment . |
| 12 | Moreover , since there is no irreducible kernel of class interest which in the last analysis guides all else , the ideas , the culture , the religion of a given society may well play a critical role in explaining social and political development . |
| 13 | But there has to be something to trigger the interest in the first place and whatever that is and however mild a form that might be lust , lust might be a more extreme form of it , but there has to be something to interest you in the first place , before you can go on to love , to knowing more about the person and having this in love feeling develop into love . |