Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 2 | Charlotte , who has seen more than 20 prime ministers come and go in Britain since she was born in 1877 , received her 15th telegram from the Queen . |
| 3 | Ian took over in 1974 and will soon be celebrating his 90th programme in the chair . |
| 4 | Like most labels , it 's amusing and it 's slick and it tells about a hundredth part of the story . |
| 5 | Wigan 's tries came from Botica , Offiah , Myers , Skerrett , Bell and Edwards with his 31st try of the season . |
| 6 | To reach the sixteenth green from the championship tee required a full driver over a lake of 230 yards . |
| 7 | Charlton Athletic 's former Sunderland goalkeeper Bob Bolder makes his 250th appearance for the club in today 's game at Barnsley . |
| 8 | ( The expression ‘ full moon ’ means the fourteenth day of the moon reckoned from its first appearance . ) |
| 9 | Consequently , unlike Canterbury , it failed to keep in line with the Roman practice when the fourteenth day of the moon fell on a Sunday . |
| 10 | Indeed , he was just about to ask to be substituted when he collected the ball in the 38th minute on the edge of the area with his back to goal . |
| 11 | Dunstable withdrew yesterday from the FA Cup , but face disciplinary action after their remaining players walked off in the 38th minute of the tie at Staines after the referee Stephen Head sent off a third member of their team . |
| 12 | We immediately authorized a ballot and we are now in our sixteenth week of the strike . |
| 13 | Police had to enter the ring in the fourteenth round of the prize fight to rescue the pre-fight favourite Burns from further , unnecessary punishment ( Farr , 1964 , p.60 ) . |
| 14 | In making decisions such as these , " market practice " ( as discussed below ) my assume particular importance , overriding the direct second-by-second control of the exchange itself . |
| 15 | The next model is the CDP-497 ( £159.99 ) which adds to these features Auto space ( adds a three-second space between the replay of successive tracks which is particularly useful for a tape deck with AMS — Automatic Music Search ) and a Link Edit mode which will automatically indicate any tracks on a disc which fall within the remaining tape time on a cassette . |
| 16 | ‘ He lives on the sixteenth floor of the RCA building . |
| 17 | 3-3 when Gloucester 's Tim Smith landed his 400th penalty for the club and 6-3 when he kicked another minutes later … |
| 18 | One of the world 's largest wooden sailing ships is in Gloucester docks this weekend to mark the two hundredth birthday of the world 's first ship canal . |
| 19 | NEXT YEAR is the 80th birthday of the Union of Catholic Mothers , and they plan to celebrate is with a national pilgrimage to Lourdes . |
| 20 | This was the fourth murder of a Sinn Féin member since May and the 59th killing in the province so far in 1991 . |
| 21 | such person has not reached his or her seventy-first birthday at the time of injury |
| 22 | Northumberland senior boys 110 metres hurdler Kevin Lumsden knocked four barriers down but won in 14.9 secs , a three-second improvement on the run which earned him the county title seven days earlier . |
| 23 | But it was Shearer , three minutes into the second half , who drew blood ; a superb header for his 31st goal of the season . |
| 24 | Minutes later the Wolves struck again , with the amazing Steve Bull scoring his 31st goal of the season , not one of the better ones though with the Hereford defence in a tangle . |
| 25 | Next year every member — new or renewing — will receive a ‘ free gift ’ to mark the 35th year of the Medau Society . |
| 26 | Thus proteins ( in the form of enzymes ) largely determine the second-by-second activity of the cell ( the cell 's metabolism ) ; and also account for much of the structure of each cell . |
| 27 | Thus V ) 114 , 3 , 90 means on the ninetieth day of the season of Sun in the one hundred and fourteenth year of the reign of Caradryel the Peacemaker . |
| 28 | If , for example , the landlord has the right to break at the expiry of the twelfth year of the term , rather than at the expiry of the fourteenth year of the term , the tenant 's right to compensation on quitting may be halved . |
| 29 | In a broadcast speech on July 26 marking the 38th anniversary on the assault on the Moncada barracks , a landmark in the Cuban revolution , President Fidel Castro called on the population to redouble their efforts to stand up to the continuing economic blockade by the United States and to the economic and political collapse of the Eastern bloc , characterizing the latter as a " disaster " [ see p. 38229 ] . |
| 30 | But a minute later , Spurs were two nil up , some sloppy play in mid-field , the ball looped over the United defence to Gary Lineker , he ran on and hammered a tremendous shot into the roof of the net for his fourteenth goal of the season . |