Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recalled to the USSR in 1939 , Vlasov was promoted commander of the 99th Rifle Division . |
| 2 | Lithuania was admitted formally to membership of the IMF on April 29 , as the 157th member country . |
| 3 | The war years had certainly elevated their position , but this was to be only temporary , and at the end of the 17th Century women were as badly off as if the war had never happened , worse in fact because their position declined after the war . |
| 4 | As early as the 17th century apothecaries were using liquorice extracts to treat ‘ inflamed stomachs ’ just as the ancient Chinese had done centuries before . |
| 5 | The 17th century building of the Hotel Marmorata |
| 6 | The 17th century building is full of interesting mementoes , including the door of the condemned cell of the Calton Jail . |
| 7 | In the saleroom was a crush of the fashionable of Amsterdam , faces straight out of the portraits of Ochterveldt and Rembrandt , echoing the 17th century prosperity which made the Dutch bourgeoisie the richest in Europe . |
| 8 | The city 's architecture captures the memory of the 17th century wealth of a seafaring and predominantly trading nation . |
| 9 | Using what little facts as she could chronologically find Dei then placed a perspective on this through ’ reading about the time she lived in and finding out about women 's lives in the 17th century Rome . |
| 10 | No one knew for certain what volume of water was pent up , but the old mine must have been full to the random of the 17th Century Cobblers Level . |
| 11 | Savary 's statements show that the 17th century bill of lading had begun to function as a ‘ necessary ’ document ; only by showing the document could Savary 's shipper-owner claim lawful possession of the goods he had shipped in his own vessel . |
| 12 | The 17th Century artist Pieter de Hooch 's The Courtyard of a House in Delft was sold for £4.4million . |
| 13 | Also at the Shore , the 17th century King 's Wark is another interesting conservation . |
| 14 | The 17th century Lambeth plate , which was held together by glue and string , was bought by a London dealer at a Sheffield auction . |
| 15 | On approaching , from some distance off , the first greeting is given by the elegant shape of a belfry emerging from the surrounding greenery ; it belongs to the 17th century church of Santa Maria graced by the renowned painting of the Virgin by Pier Francesco Fiorentino . |
| 16 | A part of the 17th Century West Looe constable 's duty ( as now ) was to prevent Saturday night merry-making from getting out of hand . |
| 17 | Next it cut the steep mountainside between Great and Little How Crags , where , at about the 2,100 ft. contour , the 17th Century miners had — by means of open-cut and tunnel — opened their Black Scar Workings . |
| 18 | Suicide For Love is adapted by Matsuyo Akimoto from three plays by the 17th century writer Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Ninagawa 's production involves 73 actors , a swirling snow storm and a river on stage — the company , with true Japanese courtesy , provide plastic macs for the first two rows of spectators . |
| 19 | Dei based her final dissertation on Artemesia giving a feminist art perspective on her work and that of the 17th century writer Aphra Behn . |
| 20 | When the World Service broadcast news of the fire which damaged the State Apartments of Hampton Court Palace on Easter Monday 1986 David Esterly was busy at his workbench in up-state New York carving grapes in the manner of his guiding spirit , the 17th century genius woodcarver Grinling Gibbons . |
| 21 | Rego 's work inverts the sense of patriarchal order displayed in the 17th century family portrait . |
| 22 | Allan Ramsay , the 17th century portraitist to the great and glamorous , is currently receiving belated acclaim . |
| 23 | Blandine de Bayser , who sold nine drawings on the first night , had a delicate portrait of a woman attributed to the 17th century painter Franois Quesnel at £10,000 , and a fine Tiepolo of the Holy family from the Orloff collection at £90,000 . |
| 24 | The Solomon Trio recorded their first disc in the acoustically ‘ authentic ’ music room of the 17th century mansion Highnam Court , near Gloucester . |
| 25 | Putting in a plug for his new book , Crashers , he described how it covers the major financial crashes in the world , starting with the 17th century tulip crash in the Netherlands , through to 30s banking crisis and the Deutschmark crash of the same period , to the stock market ‘ silver bubble ’ . |
| 26 | From Cinderford , the brook flows on through Ruspidge , past the 17th century Soudley furnace and , on reaching Upper Soudley , becomes known as the Soudley Brook . |
| 27 | Two imposing items which arrived in Swanage were the prominent Wellington ‘ lock ’ tower at Peveril and the 17th century facade from the Mercers ' Hall in Cheapside which George Burt used for his new Town Hall . |
| 28 | The picturesque town of Delft is often said , by the Dutch , to be ‘ the prettiest place in Holland ’ and it is easy to see why ; with a network of canals criss-crossed by charming bridges , in and around the 17th century town centre with gabled buildings lining narrow streets and passages . |
| 29 | [ W. H. B. Court , The Rise of the Midland Industries 1600–1838 , 1938 ; H. E. Palfrey , ‘ Foleys of Stourbridge ’ , Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society , vol. xxi , 1944 ; H. R. Schubert , History of the British Iron and Steel Industry from c.450 B.C. to A.D. 1775 , 1957 ; Treadway Nash , Collections for the History of Worcestershire , 2nd edn. , vol. ii , 1799 ; John Roper , Dudley : the 17th Century Town , 1965 . ] |
| 30 | Mash tuns or Kieves ( a Dublin term possibly inherited from the 17th century Huguenot brewers ) are essentially great big strainers or filtering vessels where the mash is allowed to ‘ stand-in ’ , in much the same way as a pot of tea is allowed to ‘ draw ’ . |