Example sentences of "of the sixth " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the opening years of the sixth decade ‘ R&B was King ’ — thanks , not least , to the popularity it had enjoyed among the troops . |
| 2 | Attention has recently focused on four sections of the sixth century wall mosaics from the church of Panayia Kanakaria , near Famagusta , which the Cypriot government is seeking to reclaim through the courts from an Indianapolis dealer . |
| 3 | So the time is ripe for a major overhaul of the sixth form . |
| 4 | After a blunder in the opening of the sixth game , Speelman may feel lucky to be still in the match . |
| 5 | She must , however , give up work before the start of the sixth week before the EWC if she is to get SMP for the full eighteen weeks . |
| 6 | I 'd better go before you tempt the two of us into dismantling and abusing the sacred structure of the Sixth Commandment . ’ |
| 7 | Urging the country to unite behind her after the trauma of the sixth uprising against her government in less than four years , Ms Aquino said she was determined not to allow ‘ any aggressor to wrest our freedom and democracy away from us . |
| 8 | One is a brief account of the birth at home of the sixth son , Julian : the others refer to her active role as intermediary between the sons and the father . |
| 9 | For example , two very similar copper-alloy statuettes both purport to be Etruscan of the sixth century BC ( fig. 8.3 ) . |
| 10 | When Judah was devastated by the Babylonians at the start of the sixth century BCE , the Edomites shared with the Babylonians in the capture and looting of Jerusalem , handed survivors over to them , and caught many trying to escape ( Obad. |
| 11 | When the Israelites go out to gather it , each of them gathers exactly the right amount for himself and his family ; on the sixth day of the week a double portion is given and collected so that the sabbath rest can be properly kept ; on the sabbath , appropriately , no manna appears at all ; while any kept at the end of any of the first five days goes bad overnight , the half of the sixth day 's gathering put aside for the sabbath keeps perfectly fresh . |
| 12 | Palestine towards the end of the sixth and in the course of the fifth centuries BC ) , it is significant that the principal concern of the Priestly Code ( the code with which we are primarily concerned , see p. |
| 13 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 14 | Lord Cranborne , son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury , had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years : his grandfather , ‘ Bobbety ’ the fifth Marquess , had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties . |
| 15 | At the end of the sixth century a Frankish king complained that all the riches were flowing into the hands of bishops at the expense of the royal fisc , and that royal authority was being eclipsed by that of the bishops of cities . |
| 16 | perhaps the best example of this method is offered by the Merovingian gold coinage of the sixth and seventh centuries AD ( fig. 11 ) . |
| 17 | Do you see in the first two movements of the Fifth and in the whole of the Sixth a certain prophetic note , or do you see them in purely musical terms ? |
| 18 | After four hours ' play of the sixth round Martin showed the first sign of faltering as he slipped into a bad position against fellow Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers , who is in joint second place with Miles on 4/5 in third place . |
| 19 | A quarter of the sixth formers take A-level art , frequently gaining over 80 per cent A-grades . |
| 20 | The tenth edition of the Kalendar in 1754 , contained a write-tip of the sixth edition of the Dictionary ( 1752 ) and on its title page was notice of the fact that it had been ‘ adapted to the new style , with a list of medicinal plants which may be gathered in each month for use ’ . |
| 21 | After the death of the sixth Duke in 1858 , the property passed to the Duchess of Sutherland , and she entertained the great Italian patriot , Garibaldi ( he planted a young cedar tree in the garden ) , also Prime Minister Gladstone . |
| 22 | The huge temple , begun at the close of the sixth century BC by the Athenian tyrant Pisistratus , was finally dedicated by Hadrian in AD 131–2 . |
| 23 | The future of Mentmore had been discussed behind bolted doors since the death of the sixth Earl of Rosebery . |
| 24 | The standards and ideals of the sixth form , as the Crowther Report had epitomized them , dominated the school . |
| 25 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |
| 26 | For the source of this we must go back to the Pythagoreans of the sixth century BC , whose cosmological speculations were based on the ‘ tetracys ’ , that is , the geometrical symbol composed of ten discrete points symmetrically arranged in the form of an equilateral triangle with sides of four points each . |
| 27 | The modern practice of numbering the days of the month consecutively from the first to the last came to the West from Syria and Egypt in the second half of the sixth century . |
| 28 | Schools ( perhaps excluding the new Technology Colleges ) should be judged according to academic criteria ; and these could be supplied , as they always have been , by the size of the sixth form and the number of entries to universities — that is , by A level results . |
| 29 | The relaxed atmosphere of the sixth form was exploited to the full by Gedge and he made his first naïve steps into a political arena , ones that ended at the school 's perimeter fence . |
| 30 | Greek philosopher and mathematician of the sixth century BC . |