Example sentences of "in the [num ord] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And many of us , I dare say , have tacitly ( perhaps wistfully ) consigned Ruskin 's views to the ash-can of history , along with other Utopian systems put together in the nineteenth century which the desolate history of our own century has made no longer tenable . |
| 2 | The modern ‘ clean break ’ approach has its roots in the nineteenth century which with varying degrees of application has continued throughout the twentieth century ( Triseliotis , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Erm so it 's in terms of erm er , careful logical field work erm there 's not a great deal of information , but there 's , th , there have been early anatomical historical er investigations and there is something a literature erm dating from early in the nineteenth century which and it shows you the bloke who also resolves to , to , to make comparisons with what she found . |
| 4 | In the nineteenth century they were all categorised together as ‘ the Alderney or French breed ’ said to be bred chiefly on Alderney and to a lesser extent on the other islands . |
| 5 | The sixteenth-century shroud was a voluminous sheet , gathered at the head and foot ends in a knot ; those of the eighteenth century were more tailored , with sleeves and draw-strings ; whilst in the nineteenth century they were fully fashioned . |
| 6 | In the nineteenth century they manned the lower ranges of the political structure by combining with their traditional municipal powers the electoral patronage of parliamentary government . |
| 7 | However , in the nineteenth century we do see much more clearly the rise of a concept equivalent or similar to the modern one , although the definition itself was not fully developed until the work of the American G. Stanley Hall and his colleagues in the 1890s , and first popularised in his massive book published in 1904 . |
| 8 | In the nineteenth century it was Richard Wagner whose extraordinary ambition it was to make a complete artistic environment , in which the arts would blend . |
| 9 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 10 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 11 | Earlier in the nineteenth century it was estimated that there were 2000 handloom weavers within a radius of 7 or 8 miles from Portadown . |
| 12 | In the nineteenth century it provided little more than ten per cent of government revenue . |
| 13 | In the nineteenth century it was the native inhabitants ' turn , and the Highlands suffered the terrible injury of the Clearances . |
| 14 | In the nineteenth century it was the squalor and unhealthiness of the northern manufacturing towns , as much as the condition of London 's rookeries , that led to measures of sanitary regulation and housing improvement . |
| 15 | The museum with old apparatus and machinery is one kind , but in the nineteenth century it was the museum as a centre of research in current science which was more important . |
| 16 | Early in the nineteenth century it was wrongly deduced , on the basis of scanty observations of surface features , that the axial sidereal period was about 24 hours , prograde . |
| 17 | Accordingly , when power-looms worked by women began to appear early in the nineteenth century it " set women against women , especially young women working in the shops or mills against older married women working at home " . |
| 18 | In the nineteenth century there were , of course , families in which the attitude to death was morbid or prurient , such families exist today . |
| 19 | In the nineteenth century there was a need to protect children from exploitation by parents as juvenile labour . |
| 20 | The site of this settlement was in Bredcroft or ‘ Bradcroft ’ meadow , and in the nineteenth century there was still evidence of its existence . |
| 21 | In the nineteenth century there were a variety of sources available about criminal cases . |
| 22 | They have always spent considerable time visiting schools ; in the nineteenth century there were regular visits , including during the period of payment by results ( 1862–1898 ) when the outcome of an inspection , involving assessing the children 's performance , determined whether or not the school received funds . |
| 23 | Scott claims that in the nineteenth century there were three overlapping , but not united sections of the upper class : landowners , financiers ( mainly in the City of London ) , and manufacturers . |
| 24 | Thomas Carlisle was er one of the writers in the nineteenth century who was very keen on this business of being strong and silent and a productive worker and a and a competent breadwinner and he advocated this as the best way of being a man . |
| 25 | In the ninth century they were stolen and moved to Conques , where was a narrow shelf of rock in a remote , retired valley of great beauty in the Rouergue , in the Massif Central ; and here was space enough for a hermitage and a small oratory — for Faith , and a few monks to protect and cultivate her . |
| 26 | a legendary figure supposed to have reigned as John VIII in the ninth century who gives her name to a card game for 3 or more players , played on a circular painted tray ( or specially marked table ) , and with ‘ fish ’ ( counters of bone or ivory often shaped like fish ) . |
| 27 | Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first |
| 28 | A hunting song of the 18th century titled " The Lulling-stone Hunt " tells of the hunt chasing a fox through Halling and in the ninth verse we read ; |
| 29 | Then with the acquisition of Gascony in the mid-eleventh century they became rulers of Bordeaux and overlords of a number of counties and lordships extending from the mouth of the Garonne to the Pyrenees , in area about twice the size of Poitou . |
| 30 | In the fifth century there were only two kings of Cyrene before the monarchy fell some time before c.450 , Battos IV ‘ The Fair ’ and Arkesilas IV ; in about the middle of the century , Cyrene freed itself from the never very oppressive control of Persia , perhaps following the lead of the Egyptian revolt . |