Example sentences of "of the [num ord] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | BUCKINGHAM PALACE 29 September : The Duke of York , Colonel-in-Chief of The Staffordshire Regiment ( The Prince of Wales 's ) this evening received Lieutenant-Colonel NHC Brown upon relinquishing his appointment as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion and Lieutenant-Colonel CT Rogers upon assuming the appointment . |
| 2 | 12 October : The Princess Royal , Colonel-in-Chief , The Royal Scots ( The Royal Regiment ) , this morning received Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Gibson upon relinquishing his appointment as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion and Lieutenant-Colonel Iain Johnstone upon assuming the appointment . |
| 3 | It could date back as far as the middle of the ninth century and was closely associated with the later castle . |
| 4 | But between the middle of the ninth century and the end of the twelfth , when it was supplanted by Orthez , Morlaas was the capital of Béarn . |
| 5 | There may have been a formal recognition of Christianity by the leaders of some Serbian tribes as early as the seventh century , but the real beginnings of Christianity in this area date from the last decades of the ninth century and are associated with the ‘ Apostles of the Slavs ’ , the brothers Constantine-Cyril ( Kiril ) and Methodius ( Metodije ) . |
| 6 | It appeared at the end of the ninth century and spread during the next two centuries throughout the Eastern ( Byzantine ) Church . |
| 7 | Also known as Hela , the goddess of the Ninth Earth and guardian of the Underworld in Norse mythology . |
| 8 | The present landscape of all the eastern fenlands , from Lincoln to Cambridge , is almost entirely the creation of the mid-seventeenth century and later . |
| 9 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 10 | It dates from the early part of the 19th century and was worked around the 1850s by Allaway and Henry Crawshay , the latter probably having connections with William Crawshay of Camp Mill , at Soudley . |
| 11 | The only account of William Green 's life came at the end of the 19th century and was written by Charles Roeder . |
| 12 | The anxiety with which modern woman — the ‘ new woman ’ — was viewed in the last decade of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century is central to an analysis of these images presented by the New Sculpture exhibition ; this is not so much the over-emphasis upon the image of the ‘ femme fatale ’ which Glaves-Smith decries in the catalogue , but those ‘ clear gender constructions ’ which he maintains are ‘ far more subtle ’ ( although it is unclear from his text just what these constructions might be ) . |
| 13 | Since Britannia ‘ ruled the waves ’ for at least half of the 19th century and for the early part of the 20th century , and since profitable shipping was of paramount British national interest , British legislators and judges were sympathetic to the British carriers ' use of extremely broad disclaimers . |
| 14 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 15 | Wedgwood first produced fine bone china in the early years of the 19th century and since the turn of the 20th century it has become the company 's major product . |
| 16 | CZECHOSLOVAKIA is an invention of the twentieth century and , in particular , of the Allied victories of 1918 . |
| 17 | If such attitudes are now considered contemptible , it should be remembered that the policy of segregation continued for most of the twentieth century and many people still believe today that mentally handicapped people should be isolated and prevented from having children , even though the hereditary risks are low and can , in most cases , be discounted . |
| 18 | The growth of synfuel industries during the latter years of the twentieth century and the gradual increase of the contribution to oil demand made by these oil shale , tar sand , coal based fuels mean an extension of the life of the IC engine probably well into the mid-21st century . |
| 19 | The principal reasons for this state of affairs lie in the explanations given at the beginning of this chapter ; scholars with museum backgrounds laid the foundations for an artefact-based subject in the first half of the twentieth century and introduced the strong historical background to such studies . |
| 20 | The cosy fug of the Music Halls , the barrel-organ streets , the unhurried pace of a horse-drawn civilisation — before the motor car , before the cinema , before the sweeping changes of the twentieth century and their attendant disorientations — here , we are repeatedly encouraged to believe , is the original home of ‘ Old England ’ and a life ordered by tradition and familiarity . |
| 21 | This rise is dramatic , as is illustrated in figure 6.6 , which shows a steep rise in this age-group in the first half of the twentieth century and a levelling out at about 15 per cent from the 1980s well into the next century . |
| 22 | Imperialist relationships increasingly replaced reliance on domestic markets at the turn of the twentieth century and provided a temporary breathing space for capitalism . |
| 23 | Within marriage the most important change experienced by women was the steady decline in the fertility rate until after World War II ( Table 2 ) , while in the 1870s there were over 295 legitimate live births per 1000 married women aged 15–44 , this figure had dropped to 222 by the first decade of the twentieth century and to only 111 by the 1930s . |
| 24 | The pedants would insist , however , that the 1st January 1901 was the true beginning of the twentieth century and therefore the obvious " natural " marker point for a new era . |
| 25 | These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 27 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 28 | Much of the building is of the thirteenth century and comprises encircling outer and inner curtain walls incorporating over 50 towers . |
| 29 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |
| 30 | In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement . |