Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artemesia Gentileschi was a painter of extraordinary talent , considered in the 17th Century as second only to Caravaggio . |
| 2 | On the timber side , an enormous selection of old doors ranging from the 17th century to Art Deco is available . |
| 3 | The first 14 days of any period of disablement is excluded and benefit is payable for up to 104 weeks from the 15th day of disablement . |
| 4 | Item 5 is a weekly benefit , of which the first 14 days of any period of incapacity is excluded and benefit is payable for 104 weeks from the 15th day of incapacity . |
| 5 | Neither goalkeeper was seriously threatened in the first half , with the exception of a speculative 25-yard drive in the 15th minute by Love , who was making his first-team debut for the Edinburgh club . |
| 6 | A few days later Gorbachev was back on Lenin 's tomb watching the Soviet tanks and legions saluting the 45th anniversary of victory in the second world war . |
| 7 | A devastating second run worthy of Ingemar Stenmark in his prime reversed the one-second lead of Ole-Christian Furuseth for victory by half a second with a two-run aggregate of 2 minutes 7.41 seconds . |
| 8 | However , what many fail to realize is that they are already falling ; just because they 've passed the nineteenth floor without mishap does n't mean all will be well when ground zero is reached . |
| 9 | The space before him was formed from two segments of the crypt 's arcading — the room had been devised in the nineteenth century for use as an office for the vergers . |
| 10 | In many areas , there were even more boundaries in the landscape than are used today , or were even apparent in the nineteenth century on tithe and other estate records . |
| 11 | It is illuminated by brilliant passages of interpretation and convincing proposals for source material for Magritte 's imagery , ranging from Egyptian and Greek sculpture , fifteenth-century frescoes and Symbolist pictures of the nineteenth century to photography and film stills , pulp fiction and popular postcards of a mildly erotic flavour , and illustrations published in the Larousse encyclopaedia . |
| 12 | These corps arose from the middle of the nineteenth century in response to the chronic insecurity caused by a Spanish version of the ‘ spoils system ’ : each change of government would lead to the replacement of all those appointed under the previous government by individuals loyal to the new party in power . |
| 13 | However , as the belief in metaphysical realism declined in the nineteenth century in favour of more nominalist , relativist or generally hesitant views of knowledge , the concept of a liberal education seemed to lose its firm epistemological foundation and become not so much a theory of knowledge as a theory of ignorance . |
| 14 | For example , some historians have argued that Methodism and other non-conformist sects were deliberately encouraged by employers in the nineteenth century in order to placate the workers and persuade them to look for salvation in the next world rather than in this . |
| 15 | Developing since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century , accelerating in the nineteenth century in step with the acceleration of capitalist industry , the process of intrusion increasingly separated culture out into the familiar contours of ‘ high ’ and ‘ low ’ , isolating what it could not assimilate . |
| 16 | Typhoid and cholera were eliminated in the nineteenth century by engineering , epidemiology , and bureaucracy . |
| 17 | To see how this can be done , we will start by observing that x i j occurs in the ith equation of ( 8.1 ) with coefficient -1 and in the jth equation with coefficient +1 . |
| 18 | On the hundredth day of world peace all the ‘ a little bothered and regretful ’ , people all gathered to hear the oration by the pioneer of world peace , commemorating this historic day . |
| 19 | The fourteenth Earl of Home had been marked for prominence since childhood . |
| 20 | This was somewhat ironic since within the Tory Party as a whole the early '60s saw a marked decline in the proportion of Eton-educated aristocratic MPs and a rise in the proportion of the ‘ professional middle classes ’ and career politicians , but with the fourteenth Earl of Home as figurehead , Wilson 's charge seemed plausible . |
| 21 | The comparative French work in the fourteenth century of rayonnant and flamboyant styles is similar . |
| 22 | Speaking on the 35th anniversary of independence , Rawlings said that the electoral process would begin on April 28 when popular approval would be sought in a referendum for a constitution drafted by the Consultative Assembly [ see pp. 38379-80 ; 38664 ] . |
| 23 | The 35th Regiment of Foot was raised in Belfast in 1701 by the Earl of Donegal . |
| 24 | Balboa might find it amusing : nearly five centuries later , the land he crossed in the sixteenth century on foot has still not been completely bridged for those crossing it by car . |
| 25 | His early defence of Shelley and Milton against T. S. Eliot 's attacks had been a paradoxical defence of their classicism of style ; his influential essay on metre a defence of using classical terms to describe English poetry ; and his finest work of literary history , awkwardly entitled ( as part of a series ) English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama ( 1954 ) , extolled the ‘ golden ’ voice of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser , as opposed to ‘ drab ’ , in a critical climate in which Metaphysicals like Donne and Herbert counted for more than their courtly forerunners among the Elizabethans . |
| 26 | He is described as a teacher of rhetoric , but this was probably not a slightly anachronistic reference to Artemidorus of Daldis , whose dream-books were becoming popularly available in print on the Continent for the first time in the second half of the sixteenth century in Latin and Greek . |
| 27 | But Anton Rogan scored his first goal for the club with a perfectly-hit volley from the edge of the box in the 31st minute after goalkeeper Digweed had punched away a corner from a jaded-looking Atkinson . |
| 28 | The senior component of what became The East Surrey Regiment under the 1881 Cardwell Reforms had been raised in Huntingdonshire in 1702 as The 31st Regiment of Foot . |
| 29 | ( The cor anglais , if any , would double the 1st horn in unison . |
| 30 | The following season Jerry was a vital member of the Palace team which won the 2nd Division Championship and then went on to take the 1st Division by storm . |