Example sentences of "[noun prp] of [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
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| 3 | In his two-volume Mexico of the Twentieth Century ( 1907 ) Martin moved on to examine British investment and influence in that country . |
| 4 | By the Tuesday of the first week , Cassie knew that she could not stay at Rose Cottage any longer . |
| 5 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 6 | cos I 've got the first week off , but it 's just , I 'm just stuck for Tuesday and Friday of the second week , you 've got the Mayday holiday off and in the summer I 've got the first three full weeks of the summer holiday off |
| 7 | At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high . |
| 8 | He knocked one year off a full 10-year term to take account of the strain on Christie of a second hearing . |
| 9 | Studies in the Coinages of the Eleventh Century ( 1981 ) , pp. 211ff ( a die chain between imitative coins with different mint names ) ; R. Reece , Coinage in Roman Britain ( 1987 ) ( the study of site finds ) ; T. R. Volk in G. Depeyrot , T. Hackens and G. Moucharte ( eds . ) , |
| 10 | Such Persian names survive in local nomenclature till Roman times : the priests of Artemis at Ephesus went on being called Megabyxoi for centuries after 330 ; or we might compare the place-name Maibozani , recently attested ( JRS , 1975 , p. 65 , line 10 , with p. 73 : a Roman inscription from Ephesus of the first century AD ) . |
| 11 | The Rule of St Benedict of the sixth century was a code written by Benedict for the use of his own monks . |
| 12 | 1983 witnessed the opening on 16 May of the first stretch of new main line built for over half a century — the 23.5km Selby Diversion line , replacing the former main line via Selby which closed completely between York Chaloner 's Whin Junction and Selby North Junction . |
| 13 | You simply take the marginal cost OA of the first inch , then add the marginal cost of the second inch , and so on till you get to the existing size S 1 . |
| 14 | There is nothing like this countryside in the England of the twentieth century ( though rural Ireland is somewhat similar ) . |
| 15 | So , for example , in the England of the seventeenth century , Anglicans , Puritans , Presbyterians and others all made the same appeal to the Bible ; but their different convictions about what the Bible was chiefly saying often seemed more prominent than their shared allegiance to it . |
| 16 | This is why Leavis recommends that students be prescribed a piece of extended work dealing with the process of change by which " the England of the seventeenth century " became the " England of today " . " |
| 17 | There are examples in Chartres and a few have survived the devastation in Normandy of the Second World War at Lisieux , Caen and Rouen . |
| 18 | Tradescant 's father , also named John , was an ingenious gentleman gardener , the Gertrude Jekyll of the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | They held a Soiree in January of the next year at which 140 were present ; tea was made in the manse kitchen . |
| 20 | They held a Soiree in January of the next year at which 140 were present ; tea was made in the manse kitchen . |
| 21 | Does America really need to leap a whole generation ahead in fighter technology , to build an aeroplane that can beat undreamed-of Russian fighters of the undreamed-of Russia of the next century ? |
| 22 | This contraption was invented by an Englishman , Captain Bulkeley of the Second Life Guards , in 1848 for his wife who had difficulty in walking and who felt sick when using the other forms of transport then available . |
| 23 | The other writer who has deeply interested me is Jan Struther , the Mrs Miniver of the Second World War . |
| 24 | , Abraham ( ‘ Bram ’ ) ( 1847–1912 ) , civil servant , theatre manager , barrister , and writer , was born in Dublin 8 November 1847 , the third child and second son in the family of five sons and two daughters of Abraham Stoker , a clerk in Dublin Castle , and his wife Charlotte , daughter of Lieutenant Thomas Thornley of the 43rd Regiment . |
| 25 | Indeed this was not disputed , but the application to Lautro of the next step in the argument was contentious . |
| 26 | Obviously there had been no notices after the first night , and few of the critics of the major papers would have had time , let alone interest , to give the play a second viewing ; but a North London local paper with a weekly deadline had sent along its critic on the Monday of the second week , and their review appeared on the Thursday . |
| 27 | He spent from July to October of the first year in the papal towns . |
| 28 | In the Paris of the 19th century , it was a pleasure to go for a stroll and to be delighted by the public buildings . |
| 29 | My conclusions , expressed in the last chapter — ‘ Venice of the Twenty-First Century ? ’ — have been reinforced by the events that have been taking place in Eastern Europe since the autumn of 1989 . |
| 30 | What is certain is that the Egyptian goldsmiths had developed their skills to the point at which they were able to mount amethyst , lapis lazuli and turquoise in the gold bracelets buried with King Zer of the first dynasty in his tomb at Abydos . |