Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | Its narrator 's confessional outpourings are given an ironic descant by his obsession with James Buchanan , the 15th President of the US . |
| 5 | Like most labels , it 's amusing and it 's slick and it tells about a hundredth part of the story . |
| 6 | Bevin agreed with Attlee about the need to forestall the Russians , and took the initiative in drafting a resolution for the General Assembly authorizing the crossing of the 38th parallel with a view to establishing a unified , independent , and democratic government of all Korea . |
| 7 | General Roberts stated that on 6 May a unit of the ROK army had advanced north of the 38th parallel to a depth of 2.5 miles ( 4 km ) and had attacked several settlements . |
| 8 | Wigan 's tries came from Botica , Offiah , Myers , Skerrett , Bell and Edwards with his 31st try of the season . |
| 9 | We need some new notation to describe extra rows and will write for the element in the jth column of the z k -row . |
| 10 | To reach the sixteenth green from the championship tee required a full driver over a lake of 230 yards . |
| 11 | This was to be the fourteenth staging of the Championships , which had begun ( without British participation ) in 1934 . |
| 12 | Charlton Athletic 's former Sunderland goalkeeper Bob Bolder makes his 250th appearance for the club in today 's game at Barnsley . |
| 13 | For a while she thought that her visions had been a delirium , but then fell into an exhausted sleep when she received her sixteenth revelation in a dream which reassured her and made her deeply ashamed of her doubts . |
| 14 | The 600th edition of the BBC ‘ Any Questions ’ programme was broadcast from Liphook Village Hall , and was a special edition in honour of question master Freddie Grisewood , who lived in Hewshott Lane , Liphook . |
| 15 | The New Forest has been designated a Special Protection Area ( SPA ) for birds by the UK government , making it the 38th site in the UK so designated under the EC wild birds directive . |
| 16 | ( The expression ‘ full moon ’ means the fourteenth day of the moon reckoned from its first appearance . ) |
| 17 | Consequently , unlike Canterbury , it failed to keep in line with the Roman practice when the fourteenth day of the moon fell on a Sunday . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We immediately authorized a ballot and we are now in our sixteenth week of the strike . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ He lives on the sixteenth floor of the RCA building . |
| 25 | We took a stand at the ABA Expo , as Rumpole would say , alone without a leader — in this instance the Law Society which took a discreet hospitality suite on the 38th Floor of the Hilton Hotel . |
| 26 | It was a downmarket job ; he 'd report on reactions to his attempts to change a $1000 bill , sit in a lion 's cage at the local zoo , or clean windows on the twenty-eighth floor of a skyscraper . |
| 27 | 3-3 when Gloucester 's Tim Smith landed his 400th penalty for the club and 6-3 when he kicked another minutes later … |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mathilde had planned a party for her , a party to celebrate her sixteenth birthday in a week 's time . |
| 30 | LOUTH pensioner and long serving employee , known to his friends as , celebrated his 80th birthday with a surprise party thrown for him by his family and friends . |