Example sentences of "a [num ord] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | About four miles or so west of Castelnuovo is the estate of Curina with a 17th century villa and rural outhouses which have been tastefully restored . |
2 | THIS production is the British premiere of a 17th Century work by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega , but any assumptions we may have that it will be a genteel period piece are dispelled with the first few lines of dialogue . |
3 | Bordallo , 63 , shot himself in the centre of the island 's capital Agaña , chained to the statue of a 17th century Chamorro chief and wrapped in the island 's flag . |
4 | Pond finds — a 17th century spur , 16th and 17th century buckles , a complete crotal bell , and 17th century coins weights . |
5 | Originally a 17th century patrician house , this is a lovely unpretentious hotel with the comforts and atmosphere of a private home . |
6 | A few evenings on this field , which had previously seemed barren , produced : crotal and rumbler bones ; medieval and Georgian buckles ; fifty copper coins ( 17th to 19th century ) ; buttons , a 17th century spoon ; a piece of 18th century watch fob ; and the smallest barrel lock that I have ever seen . |
7 | The kitchen doubles as a dining room , and the family gathers for meals around a 17th century oak tavern table scored with the marks of games of shove-halfpenny . |
8 | Included are a Georgian manor with swimming pool near Cambridge , a 17th Century inn with solarium at Chelmarsh , Shropshire , and a former 19th Century vicarage in Berwick-upon-Tweed , Northumberland . |
9 | Housed in a 17th century cottage , this fine collection of local domestic , agricultural , trade and craft tools forms one of Oxfordshire 's oldest small museums , set up by Mr George Swinford in the 1920s . |
10 | Do you know where I mean ? erm Well , that too , is a 17th century building , I 've got a an early 19th century Butler engraving of it here , and some pictures from the Alice shop itself , Now that was owned by a Walter Paine , both these citizens were well off brewers , erm those are just pictures of the same one , it 's a little bit of a problem because this is called the house belonging to the manciple of Christchurch . |
11 | Beautiful museum of a 17th century Catholic Place of Worship . |
12 | The Abbey , a 17th Century mansion , in a beautiful parkland setting , was once a medieval nunnery . |
13 | In a rural setting , just 10 minutes from the NEC and Birmingham Airport , this imaginative conversion of a 17th century farmhouse has provided an elegant and charming hotel with all modern comforts . |
14 | The medal was awarded for this beautiful crystal wheel skeleton clock which is based on a 17th century design . |
15 | For instance , a night and half board at The Red Lion , a 17th century coaching inn at Grasmere , is available for £46 . |
16 | Converted from a 17th century paper mill , this hotel is built into the cliffs just half a mile from the resort of Minori . |
17 | If you can forgive Milton for what might now be considered to be a sexist remark , there is a 17th century solidity about his philosophy of learning . |
18 | Item No 1 : this appears to be a 17th century cloth fastener though it is much larger than normal . |
19 | This pub was originally a 17th century timber frame jettied building ; in the early 19th century its front was removed and a new rendered facade added . |
20 | This beautiful hotel , situated across a busy road from the fine shingle beach , retains the atmosphere and style of its origins as a 17th century summer residence . |
21 | Then there are the intimate , human scale museums such as the Anne Frank House , Second World War hiding place of the fated Jewish girl made famous through her diaries or the Amstelkring Museum , a church attic in a 17th century canal house . |
22 | This item is a 17th century escutcheon plate from a drawer |
23 | Jeanne Rynhart , who immortalised the Dublin heroine in a sculpture depicting her as a 17th Century prostitute , said Molly would always live in the city 's folk memory . |
24 | A £20,000 Alfa Romeo sports car , planned as a 17th birthday present for Daniel , will also be sold so there are no links with his father . |
25 | Lee Sharpe 's fourth goal in three games opened the way after seven minutes , Cantona rapped in a 45th minute penalty and Steve Bruce wrapped it up with an 88th minute header . |
26 | Nor were the adherents of this strategy reticent about their heritage , with one Thatcherite Cabinet Minister acknowledging in 1982 , ‘ I am a nineteenth century Liberal . |
27 | The re-opening of a nineteenth century cabbies ' shelter has upset some taxi-drivers . |
28 | Most of their criticisms were related to the survival ‘ of a nineteenth century tradition that council members must themselves be concerned with actual details of day-to-day administration ’ ( Maud 1967 , Vol. 1:1X ) . |
29 | Dissension diminished with the announcement of the winning design and then , in autumn 1990 , events took a dramatic turn with the broaching of the idea of rescuing a nineteenth century Marcher station for the purpose . |
30 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |