Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Architects for the conversion were Cecil Denny Highton and Partners and the work was carried out in two phases , the contractors for the first being Newman and Kerry of Aldershot , and J. Edwards and Sons of Waterlooville for the second . |
| 2 | It is said that the original Shorthorn ( as a British type rather than as a general term for short horned cattle ) was being bred by the Dukes of Northumberland in the sixteenth century and was probably descended from a mixture of red Anglo-Saxon cattle with red and white Dutch ‘ Hollanders ’ and ‘ Zeelands ’ that are typified in the Paul Potter painting , The Young Bull . |
| 3 | The history of Austro-Hungary through the nineteenth century is one of alteration between repression and compromise in its effort to maintain the fabric of the empire against its increasingly centrifugal tendencies . |
| 4 | Not long afterwards the Liberal Party invited this undergraduate in his second year to be the party 's candidate for the county of Cambridgeshire in the next election . |
| 5 | The great age of Antwerp in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is inevitably the theme of the main exhibitions the year . |
| 6 | A year so er from the first of March to the first of October you can use the but after |
| 7 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 . |
| 8 | In the courtyard is a wooden statue of Hercules from the second quarter of the 18C , attributed to L. Widmann . |
| 9 | Like the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century , nobody quite knew what all its decrees meant until they started putting them into practice , and a lot of them , and I suspect a lot of Vatican Twos , need to be interpreted . |
| 10 | The Schlosspark at Donaueschingen was laid out for the princes of Fürstenberg in the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | It was an artistic and cultural centre as well as a commercial one and retained its importance until the rise of Moscow in the fifteenth century . |
| 12 | Sinatra stormed off of the set of Carousel on the first day of shooting because it was to be shot in both the new CinemaScope 55 format and the standard ‘ flat ’ ratio , meaning everything had to be shot twice . |
| 13 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 14 | Two years ago , Mr Erich Honecker , who succeeded Walter Ulbricht as East German leader in 1971 , thought he had crowned the post-war settlement and division of Germany with the first official visit to the Federal Republic . |
| 15 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 16 | These are aids of a social character , those given to relieve the effects of natural disasters and those designed to compensate for economic disadvantages caused by the division of Germany after the Second World War . |
| 17 | The unification of Italy and of Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century was a belated achievement by the bourgeoisie in those countries of a large , efficiently organized modern state , essential for the rapid development of capitalist production , such as already existed in most of Western Europe and in the US . |
| 18 | Henry was one of the most remarkable princes of Germany in the twelfth century . |
| 19 | Another great missionary , St Anskar , had to engage in similar arguments when he preached ( under the sponsorship of Louis the Pious ) to the Swedes at the prosperous port of Birka in the ninth century . |
| 20 | The strategy , in evidence in the display of Auerbach 's work , effectively refuses the notion , which in Britain has had particularly powerful influence as a result of the writings of Carlyle in the last century , underpins the labelling of portraits in exhibitions ( such as The Swagger Portrait , Tate Gallery 1992 ) and in institutions like the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 21 | It expects to have early silicon of UltraSparc-I in the fourth quarter of next year . |
| 22 | It expects to have early silicon of UltraSparc-I in the fourth quarter of next year . |
| 23 | On land the Company was not really strong enough for such antics , but its naval superiority gave it a place in the third or fourth rank of powers in India , beneath the Emperor at the top and great rulers like the Nawab of Bengal in the second rank . |
| 24 | Ancient History 1 surveys the whole of Greek and Roman history from the Mycenaean period to the foundation of Constantinople in the fourth century AD . |
| 25 | Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands , who visited Japan on Oct. 20-26 , received a formal apology on Oct. 23 from Kaifu for the " unbearable suffering " inflicted by Japanese soldiers on Dutch internees during the occupation of Indonesia in the Second World War . |
| 26 | Butter is in the supermarkets of Timisoara for the first time since March last year . |
| 27 | She came to England to stay with a sister , went to acting school in London and through a teacher who knew how to persuade Emlyn Williams , was all but smuggled into The Last Days of Dolwyn as the sixth girl extra ‘ when only five had been budgeted for . |
| 28 | He sat for his home town of Stafford in the second Protectorate Parliament of 1656–8 , but is recorded as a more active speaker in the 1659 Parliament of Richard Cromwell [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | This is to invite you to join a new Special Interest Group ( SIG ) on Co-operating Knowledge-Based Systems ( CKBS ) , as proposed at the international working conference on CKBS , held at the University of Keele on the 3rd–5th October 1990 . |
| 30 | Pride held shut the gates of Famagusta until the fourteenth day after Epiphany had expired without bringing rescue . |