Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature . |
| 2 | It may be taken as fact that during the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries a number of joint muderris/muftiliks came into existence in the provinces . |
| 3 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 4 | In simple terms the first questions a bank would ask were : has the business got a long term future ? |
| 5 | There are 2 quite different uses for the DIM statement : the first dimensions an array and the second reserves an area of memory for special applications . |
| 6 | To women , entering the trade without undergoing any of the initiation rites , excluded from the union , the whole business of fat and lean — one of the first things a boy apprentice would learn about — can have meant little . |
| 7 | It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " . |
| 8 | For one of the first things the maltster looked for was just this : uniformity of seed in the samples that the farmer showed to him . |
| 9 | One of the first things an infant elephant has to discover is how to use its trunk . |
| 10 | Throughout the first months a beginner learns that in executing the basic reverse punch and the lunge punch , his hands have to withdraw back to the body in order to repeat the procedure over and over again . |
| 11 | It was certainly the case that in the first centuries the example of Jesus must have been a tremendous model for living and for dying . |
| 12 | But not many of the seventh years the year I am |
| 13 | The quiet north-country voice spoke the last words the criminal was ever to hear . |
| 14 | By about 1860 , the cloth trade in Painswick was all but extinct , one of the last survivors the concern of E.P . |
| 15 | Similarly in the next lines the sun is fading but has not yet disappeared . |
| 16 | One moment the sun was on her face , the next raindrops the size of golf balls were pelting down on her , drenching her as thoroughly as a bathroom shower . |