Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their realism wo n't help you explain a hundredth part of the real events which have actually occurred . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) A member of a licensing board who holds a disqualifying interest in a company shall not take part in any proceedings before the board in which that company is an applicant or an objector , and in this subsection " disqualifying interest " means a beneficial interest in shares or stocks of a close company within the meaning of section 282 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 which have a total nominal value exceeding £ 50 or which amount to more than one hundredth part of the nominal value of the issued share capital , or stock , as the case may be , of the company or any class of such capital or stock . |
| 3 | American-Soviet agreement on respective zones in Korea was attained through acceptance of the 38th parallel as the dividing line between the Soviet-controlled area to the north and the American-controlled area to the south . |
| 4 | If is the element in the jth column of the objective row of LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) , then applying ( 3.6a ) to this tableau and using ( 9.7 ) gives . |
| 5 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 6 | In the depth-first traversal for the above example the paragraphs would appear in the order p1 , p4 , p5 , p6 , p2 , p3 . |
| 7 | The observance began on the fourteenth day of the first month and lasted for a week . |
| 8 | Tonights performance is part of a nationwide series of concerts to celebrate the 250th anninversary of the first British performance . |
| 9 | The new matrix is symmetric , since both its i , jth and j , ith elements are unity ; moreover , its determinant is -1 , since in moving the jth row to the ith position unc we cross j — i rows ; but the original ith row is now the i + 1th and so in taking it to the jth position we cross j — i — 1 rows . |
| 10 | The 150th anniversary of the birth of the Reverend Doctor Thomas Bowman Stephenson , founder of the National Children 's Home , the 120th Anniversary of the NCH , and the 80th Birthday of the present Chairman of the NCH , that most beloved personality Viscount Tonypandy , have all been celebrated cleverly in order to raise money for the National Children 's home . |
| 11 | The following two seasons saw a steady improvement in team performance , consolidating their fourteenth position from the previous season and finishing a creditable ninth ( out of ten ) in 36/37 . |
| 12 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 13 | It seems that the masterplan , compiled by former Tate curator Richard Francis , is recommending that the existing galleries be given over to British art , from the sixteenth century to the present day , while another building , either already in existence , or to be built , but in either case not far from Millbank , will become the gallery of modern art . |
| 14 | Peter Laslett , for instance , has attempted to show that the average household size from the late sixteenth century to the twentieth century was 4.75 persons ( that is , always ‘ nuclear ’ ) , and he has used this data to challenge the notion that the nuclear model is a product of ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 15 | The Textile Museum in the Vadianstrasse has on show a remarkable range of products made in St Gallen from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth . |
| 16 | The Turkish occupation of this area , which lasted from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth , did not cause these Serbian communities to be dissolved . |
| 17 | Construction of this was begun in the first half of the sixteenth century by the Donatory Captain Simão Gonçalves da Câmara . |
| 18 | Britain 's oldest fighter pilots , all aged between 90 and 100 , will hold their final full reunion on Salisbury Plain tomorrow to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Royal Flying Corps . |
| 19 | The exhibition examines the period from the fourteenth century to the third century BC . |
| 20 | But even they were affected in the fourteenth century by the repeated crises of Sussex life , the French , the sea and the Black Death from whose effects no Sussex religious house ever fully recovered . |
| 21 | The oddest is that used in the fourteenth century by the English historian Adam of Murimuth . |
| 22 | Lawyers ' history , however , had little basis in reality and the exclusion of women was by no means settled practice before the fourteenth century in the great fiefs of France ; indeed , Edward III 's title to Gascony derived from a woman , Eleanor , wife of Henry 11 . |
| 23 | He was still a moment , watching her , astonished for the hundredth time by the fragile beauty of her , then began to eat again , realising with a laugh just how hungry he had been . |
| 24 | ‘ I am a reincarnation of the true Twenty-fourth Imam of the Nizari Ismailis ! |
| 25 | Namawar 's son was hidden and is the true Twenty-fourth Imam of the Nizari Ismailis . |
| 26 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |
| 27 | Locate the second strip to the required width ; insert two brackets in matching slots and test a timber across them so you can check with a spirit level . |
| 28 | Totem and Taboo then becomes somewhat easier to understand and will be discussed in the second part of the present chapter . |
| 29 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 30 | The expansion was made necessary by the acquisition of the second part of the Guglielmi Collection . |