Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The par-five 13th , along with the long 15th , is probably the key , where scores can be made or broken . |
| 2 | Like Denny , Eamon McAuley came in from the cold last night for a good win ( pts 6 ) over Manchester visitor Russell Davidson . |
| 3 | An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century . |
| 4 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 5 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 6 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Right through from the mid sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth one of these families was always recorded as Bonner alias Pitt , a continuity in the use of a double-barrelled surname that Dr Prior thinks suggests a certain family pride . |
| 8 | The process of expansion which the press went through in the late 19th century did not continue beyond the First World War . |
| 9 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Holywood got through to the final last year so they will be hoping for another good run this year . |
| 11 | There was clearly an increase in population from probably the ninth and tenth centuries right through to the troubled fourteenth century , but there are several ways in which extra people can be fed and accommodated on the land . |
| 12 | But Valli then dropped back to third when club secretary and veteran runner Brian took over on the penultimate third stage . |
| 13 | Faithful readers will recall that , despite being bottom of the Banks Group Northern Youth League , the lads had played the entire season without a booking or sending off until the catastrophic 82nd minute of the final game . |
| 14 | GARETH HALL will miss Chelsea 's Coca-Cola Cup quarter-final with Crystal Palace after being sent off in the stormy fourth round replay against Everton . |
| 15 | The hamlet of Blinkbonny grew up during the late 19th and early 20th century alongside Blinkbonny Farm . |
| 16 | As for the records being destroyed , it is true nothing now predates 1465 , but early records certainly existed up until the early seventeenth century . |
| 17 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 18 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
| 19 | Up to the mid eighteenth century , foreign holdings , predominantly Dutch , amounted to around a fifth of the debt . |
| 20 | On a back street , just off Bucharest 's Bulevardul General Magheru , a spiral stone staircase winds up to the cramped first floor offices of Comturist . |
| 21 | The village playing field stands opposite the old school and occupies the old titheyard where tithes were paid to the church up to the early 19th century . |
| 22 | Cork stoppers were certainly common by the second half of the 17th century , though up to the early 18th century the really smart alternative was the glass stopper , which had to be ground to fit each individual hand-blown bottle . |
| 23 | One possible course of action is simply to leave the OED and completed Supplement as they are , a record of the vocabulary of English up to the late twentieth century but no more , and to concentrate on the production and revision of other smaller dictionaries . |
| 24 | Right up to the late 19th century , archaeologists were more interested in the progress of civilisation as displayed in the fine arts . |
| 25 | Most West Europeans and North Americans found no need for strict national alignments up to the late eighteenth century ; the East Europeans the late nineteenth century , ; much of the rest of the world , the present century . |
| 26 | Moreover , MacDonald was in principle in favour of an election , but unable to secure agreement upon a formula which could reconcile protectionists and free traders up to the very last moment . |
| 27 | If you have a very active job or tiring journey to work , give up at the statutory 29th week . |
| 28 | It would seem that the ordered feudal society , insofar as it ever existed , was already broken up by the late thirteenth century and that the small Wealden peasant , who will recur frequently later , was already a common phenomenon . |
| 29 | The town has grown up around the magnificent 13th century Scaliger castle which towers above the water from a sheer rock and offers the most fantastic views . |
| 30 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |