Example sentences of "and by the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Magyars had expansionist aims and by the thirteenth century they had missionized much territory and brought Croatia within their kingdom . |
| 2 | For over a week government forces were unable to crush guerrilla-style resistance , but the army remained loyal and by the second half of December the workers , movement was clearly on the retreat . |
| 3 | It is the sort of thing known by its fruit ; and by the second half of the nineteenth century conservation of matter and of energy were such effective assumptions that they were generally taken for established truths . |
| 4 | Some later public monuments also included portraits of children , and by the second century AD the notion of including portraits of children in public monuments had spread to some highly influential provincial families . |
| 5 | Because they were already in successful careers they were able to learn fast and by the second week our Gofer teams were veteran roadies . |
| 6 | However , beginners receive their RYA log books , we keep them up to date , and by the second week nearly every one can safely skipper their own Wayfarer . |
| 7 | The first outbreak occurred in Essex in the second half of May , in the form of resistance to taxation , by early June Kent also was in revolt , and by the second week of that month East Anglia too was affected . |
| 8 | Soon lobbing along behind the leaders , Llewellyn was always finding plenty of room for Party Politics and by the second Canal Turn , when Romany King moved up to join Hotplate , the race had begun to take it 's final shape . |
| 9 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |
| 10 | The papacy used similar techniques and by the ninth century , perhaps even before , pictorial schemes were found in the papal palace and in the basilica at the Lateran . |
| 11 | Novas turned around 27–26 in front , but met a more solid defence and by the ninth minute had scored only five to Arena 's 15 . |
| 12 | I was only on the drug for seven days and by the seventh day , I 'd suddenly turned into some sort of maniac . |
| 13 | After this the Jewish community began to spread into Persian , and by the mid-twentieth century there were probably about 100,00 Jews in Iran , Until Rexa Kahn seized power they were required |
| 14 | Shortly after dawn a party of Germans entered a railway carriage at Compiègne and by the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month , the Armistice was signed and the war was over . |
| 15 | By the 14th century there was a mill in the vicinity , then called Slaughter Mill , and by the 18th century , this had been separated from the manorial estate . |
| 16 | Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) . |
| 17 | We had about six or seven weeks to finish the album and by the last week , I did n't have a vocal on two of the tracks and this is where it actually began — David writing on microphone . |
| 18 | We ‘ chatted-up ’ two girls , bought them an ice and lemonade at the balcony-café , and by the last waltz I knew I was on target . |
| 19 | In the first quarter of 1994 , a SuperSparc-II kicks in with first silicon clocked at around 65MHz and by the fourth quarter it should be up to 90MHz . |
| 20 | In first quarter of 1994 a SuperSparc-II kicks in with first silicon around 65MHz and by the fourth quarter it should be up to 90MHz . |
| 21 | And by the fourth issue of Oz the plaudits were beginning to outnumber the brickbats . |
| 22 | Emotions then ran high , and by the 62nd minute Chester were also down to ten men when Barrow lashed out at Toman in a tussle for the ball and was booked . |
| 23 | Joe had n't the faintest idea what I was talking about but he worked away enthusiastically and by the next afternoon we were ready to hang the rope-ladder . |
| 24 | The following day she felt that everything was going very slowly and by the next day she felt that she was back to normal . |
| 25 | ‘ They all knew they wanted to do it right away and by the next day had done something about it , ’ Chay Blyth remarks . |
| 26 | Sally-Anne did not know of this conversation , of course , and by the next day she was her usual bouncing , energetic self , and it being Monday not only was it wash-day — oh , dear — but summer cleaning also began again , with everything being put back , and the whole place was shining and sweet-smelling , so that , Wednesday having come round , McAllister had sunk down into Dr Neil 's big armchair with a great , ‘ Phew , I 'm glad that 's all over ! ’ amusing Matey , whose soft spot for the girl who seemed to be making Dr Neil more reconciled to his lot grew greater every day . |
| 27 | But the danger passed , and by the next night Dr Losberne was able to announce that , though seriously ill , Rose would not die . |
| 28 | Some light on the date of the accession of Wulfhere 's brother and successor , Aethelred , is shed by the proceedings of the council of Hatfield , dated by reference to 17 September of the Eighth Indiction and by the tenth year of Ecgfrith , king of the Humbrians , the seventh of Hlothhere , king of Kent , and the sixth of Aethelred , king of the Mercians ( HE IV , 17 ) . |
| 29 | I have already quoted one used by Caxton , and by the seventeenth century the booksellers and publishers were in full cry . |
| 30 | Corduroy has always been the poor man 's velvet ; its pile is made of cotton , rather than silk or satin , and by the eighteenth century it was being worn all over Europe , not by kings , but by working men . |