Example sentences of "that the [num ord] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is no accident that the nineteenth century saw a tremendous acceleration of interest among librarians in classification and indexing procedures . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was noted that the 125th Anniversary of the Opening of the Bishop 's Castle Railway is on 14 October 1990 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now we both understand that the 100th round , being the last , will be equivalent to a simple one-off game of Prisoner 's Dilemma . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Circumstantial evidence suggested that the fifth bomb was loaded at Malta and transferred onto PanAm 103 at Frankfurt . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Is the Leader of the House aware that the seventh report of the Public Accounts Committee on the privatisation of Harland and Wolff was not available to Members in the House until late yesterday evening and that it had been made available to others some time previously ? |