Example sentences of "of the [num ord] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By the beginning of the twentieth century they had about six million members . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the end of the thirteenth century we find three great courts definitely established : King 's Bench , Common Pleas , Exchequer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | But by the middle of the nineteenth century they had lost most of even the symbolic importance they had had in earlier generations . |
| 14 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century we find Lord Eldon sometimes keeping a case for ten years to think over , and not delivering judgement till perhaps most of the parties were dead and most of the property had gone in costs . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , in the last decades of the nineteenth century we can observe a greater decorum amongst the working class as a whole , and the articulation of clear respectable standards amongst important strata of it . |
| 16 | By the end of the nineteenth century it was fairly obvious that the dialogue was not materializing , as the social and political events of the 1880s had made clear , and the employers ' counter-attack on trade unions in the 1890s gave little hope for any kind of reconciliation . |
| 17 | If anything , by the end of the nineteenth century it was the expanding Polish population of the partition areas that needed living space , and the German Ostflucht might well have given it to them had it not been that Germany desperately needed to maintain the spluttering fiction of the drive to the east to divert and subvert internal political pressures . |
| 18 | Even at the end of the nineteenth century it was overwhelmingly rural ; the largest town , Kurunagala , had a population of less than 6,500 . |
| 19 | There was also a regular police force , but during the first half of the nineteenth century it was small , poorly paid , and limited largely to Colombo , Galle , and areas where there were coffee plantations . |
| 20 | In the middle of the nineteenth century it was discovered that the highs and lows of sunspot activity recur over a fairly regular cycle of 11 years . |
| 21 | In the first half of the nineteenth century it was generally believed the menstrual flow came from an excess of nutrients in the female . |
| 22 | By the last quarter of the nineteenth century it is quite clear that the middle classes were limiting births . |
| 23 | Until the last years of the nineteenth century it was they who posed the most visible challenge to the status quo . |
| 24 | When the concept was first introduced by Faraday in the fourth decade of the nineteenth century it was very vague , and was articulated with the aid of mechanical analogies and a metaphorical use of terms such as ‘ tension ’ , ‘ power ’ and ‘ force ’ . |
| 25 | In the closing decades of the nineteenth century it was moralists and feminists who set the pace in the field of sexual politics . |
| 26 | By the middle of the nineteenth century it had been firmly established that there was something curious about Mercury 's orbit . |
| 27 | But , by and large , in the third quarter of the nineteenth century it was pretty well unchallengeable . |
| 28 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century you get people like Jane Austen writing , writing about heroines with minds of their own , women who can actually think and talk and do all sorts of things that very often in literature women had n't been conceptualised as doing before . |
| 29 | In the first place , I always threatened the orchestra that if they played too loudly I would simply lower them by ten centimetres ; and if they continued , then by the end of the first act they would be in the dungeon . |
| 30 | The first leg of the first occasion I had flown horses from Heathrow was made bearable by a bottle of whisky and a regular itinerant groom . |