Example sentences of "of the [num ord] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Plans for their future brought them into political contact with enemies of the ninth electorate which led first to the secret murder of Königsmarck in 1694 , with the connivance of Ernst August , and later to Sophia Dorothea 's confinement in her father 's keeping at the palace of Ahlden , following her divorce from Georg Ludwig in 1694 , which carried the rider that she could not remarry . |
| 2 | In the case of the mid-seventeenth century we find groups of current historians who share social and frequently explicit political assumptions identifying themselves with right and left , and often implicitly acknowledging that their own political agendas dictate not only their naming of the past but their unhappiness with opposing critical orientations . |
| 3 | It is unlikely that before the middle of the 19th century there would be stonemasons specialising in making curling stones . |
| 4 | At the end of the 18th Century there was the French Revolution , at the end of the 19th Century there were people like Nietzsche writing and there were the Expressionists and there was a real feeling of disquiet and apocalypse . |
| 5 | The aspect of the disease statistics of the twentieth century which strikes us most is the tremendous rise , particularly since the Second World War , in the incidence of all chronic diseases , which prove more and more difficult to treat despite the vast array of modern pharmaceutical drugs now available . |
| 6 | By the beginning of the twentieth century they had about six million members . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , as we shall see , in analysing the cultural crisis of the twentieth century something of real significance can be achieved if we have the courage to re-instate the Freudian phylogenetic theory in its undiluted form . |
| 8 | In the early years of the twentieth century he made contributions to the techniques of gunnery , for instance , in improving ballistic calculations , designing a range-finder that was used in the Boer war , and a new form of gun-sight for the Navy . |
| 9 | In the early years of the twentieth century it was noted for its hardiness and the bullocks ' ability to feed to heavy weights , while the cows won many Royal Show prizes for butterfat yields , though the quantity of milk was low . |
| 10 | During the first decade of the twentieth century it became apparent that Britain could no longer sustain its role as an independent makeweight in the European balance of power . |
| 11 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 12 | Indeed in the middle of the twentieth century it can be said that the majority of the world 's population lives under systems of government where the government itself and particularly the executive government are of more importance and are treated with more respect or fear than the Constitution . |
| 13 | Within the complex history of the twentieth century it is possible to discern a number of dominant tendencies , and distinct periods , various aspects of which have been illuminated and made more intelligible by political and sociological thinkers of diverse schools . |
| 14 | By the beginning of the twentieth century there were 7 large weaving factories in the town and 4 outside the town . |
| 15 | In this period of the last decades of the twentieth century there is much evidence of a decline in the standards of human behaviour , and this , unquestionably , can be attributed to faltering human consciences . |
| 16 | By the beginning of the twentieth century there were some 200 levadas with a total length of 1,000km . |
| 17 | We can go on to observe that since the middle of the twentieth century there has been a big revival of informal street music , produced in non-literate , often amateur performance and through the public dissemination of recordings ( see Prato 1984 ) ; this has , of course , gone along with a wave of amateur music-making , centred on the guitar and on non-literate modes of production , whit h in the rock 'n' roll , ski Me and ‘ beat group ’ periods ( the late 1950s and the 1960s ) swept across the whole of Europe and North America . |
| 18 | It may come as a surprise to learn that in the last years of the twentieth century there is still a part of one of Europe 's most enlightened democracies where women can not vote . |
| 19 | At the beginning of the twentieth century there was scarcely a single family resident in Kiev who spoke Ukrainian as their first language . |
| 20 | Um around the middle years of the twentieth century there was ah a good deal of well people were spotting signs which would nowadays be taken as evidence of child sex abuse but they were giving other explanations for them . |
| 21 | In front of the 9th green there are several ridges and he hit one of these on its down-slope . |
| 22 | At the end of the thirteenth century we find three great courts definitely established : King 's Bench , Common Pleas , Exchequer . |
| 23 | From the middle of the thirteenth century they were allowed to deduct for themselves a fixed salary out of the Forest revenues they collected — 100 marks a year for the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and £100 for his colleague south of it . |
| 24 | But it was the learned friars of the thirteenth century who discovered Andrew 's work and used it extensively both in France and England . |
| 25 | In the forest of Essex towards the end of the thirteenth century there were six riding foresters , all appointed by the warden , and removable at his pleasure . |
| 26 | By the beginning of the thirteenth century there was a widely held belief within the Church that masses said on behalf of the dead would shorten the length of time a soul spent in purgatory . |
| 27 | The Great Powers had been continually driven by the competition among themselves , but in the last decades of the nineteenth century their intensified rivalries included a host of newcomers — Germany and Italy , the two newest Great Powers in Europe , and , close behind , the United States and , in the Far East , Japan . |
| 28 | A bitter and complex dispute was decided by the crown jurists in the interests of the foreros ( 1763 ) , and when the entailed lands of the nobility and the church estates were put on the market by the liberal legislation of the nineteenth century they purchased their foros and became the outright owners of land they had rented ; they became foristas . |
| 29 | With mounting importunity these classes demanded political power to match their economic power , and through the greater part of the nineteenth century they challenged the political authority of the landed aristocracy … |
| 30 | But by the middle of the nineteenth century they had lost most of even the symbolic importance they had had in earlier generations . |