Example sentences of "that the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While interest in Japanese aircraft is certainly facing a renaissance now that the fiftieth anniversary of the daring Pearl Harbor attack is upon us ( see page 10 ) , it is still true to say that interest in the hardware of the Imperial Japanese forces is still low with the warbird community , despite the recent pioneering efforts of the Museum of Flight at Santa Monica . |
| 2 | In April President Nursultan Nazarbayev<$ ! = had announced that the 40th Army was to be removed from the Turkestan military district command and subordinated to the CIS joint armed forces C.-in-C . |
| 3 | It is also true that the twentieth century list contained more than its fair share of abnormal personalities . |
| 4 | And what are we to make of the claim that the twentieth century has seen no philosophical achievements on the scale of Locke and Descartes ? |
| 5 | No atheist need be surprised that the twentieth century has seen so massive an increase in greed , social disorder and mass violence . |
| 6 | In 1927 , the travel writer Robert Byron wrote ‘ It is often remarked that the Twentieth Century is an age of easy travel . |
| 7 | This is not to say that the twentieth century saw the total disappearance of open opposition to democracy . |
| 8 | This is a different Switzerland , an area where places to play and places to relax somehow live side by side with that never-to-be-suppressed Swiss past , which looks down on it all , smiling benevolently but quietly insisting that the twentieth century must keep its place and show respect . |
| 9 | Documents discovered on a leading ETA member Carmen Guisasola , arrested in Bayonne , south-west France on Nov. 17 , allegedly indicated that the 25th Olympiad , to be staged in Barcelona in 1992 , was to be a priority target for ETA . |
| 10 | Bellerophon ‘ slew the Amazons , women peers of men ’ and Heracles , the most popular of Greek heroes , found that the Ninth Labour assigned to him was to seize the girdle of the Amazon queen . |
| 11 | Much of Iris Murdoch 's fiction seems informed by her view that the nineteenth century is ‘ the great era of the novel ’ ( in Bradbury 1977 : 27 ) , yet The Black Prince ( 1973 ) exhibits a thoroughly postmodernist concern with the process and validity of imaginative writing , its own included . |
| 12 | For all the fact that some of these claims need to be modified in the light of historical research , there can be no doubting that the nineteenth century was pre-eminently ‘ The Railway Age ’ . |
| 13 | Digby Wyatt 's earliest extant building is the Gothic Aldingham Hall , Cumbria , of 1846 to 1850 , and although he designed the Pompeian , Byzantine , English Gothic , Italian and Renaissance Courts at the re-erected Crystal Palace at Sydenham in 1854 , and The Art Journal commented that he had ‘ in practice attached himself more heartily to the classic ’ , he felt , like Scott , that the nineteenth century should have its particular form of architecture , but unlike Scott , he thought that this should be an adaptation of the Cinquecento style . |
| 14 | It is no accident that the nineteenth century saw a tremendous acceleration of interest among librarians in classification and indexing procedures . |
| 15 | If we assume that our kind of beings will still be around a few millennia hence , I feel certain that the nineteenth century will mainly be remembered as the century when Maxwell formulated his equations . |
| 16 | He considers that the nineteenth century cases of Camplin , Flattery and Williams accomplished no more than to include within rape sexual intercourse with an unconscious woman or one deceived by a specific type of fraud and that the 1976 Act merely declares the law as it was established at that time . |
| 17 | erm You missed last week 's talk , which actually was quite lucky because the projector broke down , so it was n't a great success ; but last week , erm I talked about the beginning up to the eighteen thirties , Victorian costume , and really what I was trying to put across last time , was the fact that the nineteenth century saw the beginning of fashion for the masses . |
| 18 | It was noted that the 125th Anniversary of the Opening of the Bishop 's Castle Railway is on 14 October 1990 . |
| 19 | It was fitting , in an ironic sort of way , that the 100th final , in 1991 , was contested by two League sides for the first time but neither Southend nor Leyton Orient fielded their best team . |
| 20 | Now we both understand that the 100th round , being the last , will be equivalent to a simple one-off game of Prisoner 's Dilemma . |
| 21 | I wonder what it tells of the spirit of the age that the 100th birthday of one of our most distinguished writers should be greeted by a knocking biography . |
| 22 | The move came as the Bond group disclosed that the fifth deadline for its A$2.5billion brewing deal with New Zealand 's Lion Nathan had passed without agreement , and that the basis of talks was to change . |
| 23 | Like the regulationist school , however , this view of long waves would stress that the fifth wave is as yet only embryonic and its form is still to be determined . |
| 24 | The British Cabinet committee , meeting on 14 November , turned down the US idea , proposing instead a 50–50 division of frequency of traffic on the North Atlantic ; but the following day it decided that the fifth freedom should be accepted , subject to safeguards . |
| 25 | However , both the president of the Board of Trade , Sir Stafford Cripps , and the Dominions Secretary , Lord Addison , thought that the fifth freedom clause went against policy as agreed with the Commonwealth . |
| 26 | Just two miles from the German forward positions , the Mort Homme seemed hardly beyond the scope of a determined thrust — especially when it was recalled that the Fifth Army had advanced three times as far during the first four days alone on the Right Bank . |
| 27 | OUR man in the stalls writing a preview more in hope than expectation : Last night it was confidently expected that the Fifth Estate 's performance of Scapegoat at the Netherbow Theatre , Edinburgh , would go ahead . |
| 28 | Some governments , notably the UK , argue that the Fifth Directive should be based on Article 100 ( general harmonisation of national laws ) at least in so far as the provisions on employee representation at board level are concerned , since it deals with the rights of employed persons which fall outside the scope of freedom of establishment governed by Article 54 . |
| 29 | Circumstantial evidence suggested that the fifth bomb was loaded at Malta and transferred onto PanAm 103 at Frankfurt . |
| 30 | That will not always seem a preferable alternative to the a cappella practice of English cathedrals and Oxbridge chapels , nurtured in a context ( the daily preparation of liturgical services ) requiring certain skills that we may imagine any medieval chapel singer would recognize as his own , whatever the damage that the 19th century may have done to ‘ the English cathedral style ’ and its historical continuity . |