Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meaby and Walker reached the 17th dormy two , but missed a short putt and slipped to dormy one . |
| 2 | Some time ago Lt. Col. A. P. Sykes presented the Society with a photocopy of an article which was published in ‘ The Bishop 's Castle Advertiser and Clun News ’ , Issue No. 33 , on the 17th May 1901 . |
| 3 | In the 17th century one Nehemiah Cohen made himself particularly famous by opposing ‘ the false prophet of Smyrna , ’ Sabbatai Zevi , who sought to lead his people back into the Holy Land . |
| 4 | The execution , however , and this is typical of the 17th century Dutch masters , is more minute ; and the composition , completely determined by a diagonal , is stricter than that of the English painters . |
| 5 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 6 | The 17th Century Wide Work or New Work is separated from the White Work ( known by this time as the Deep or Old Mine ) by a steeply inclined bed of well cleaved ashes and tuffs which , in places , have been found suitable for roofing slate . |
| 7 | THE PRESENT generation of scientists is not the first to have been troubled by problems of communication , as Dr Slaughter shows in this well documented account of the rise and fall of the 17th century universal movement . |
| 8 | Situated one mile from the city centre , on 48 acres of parkland , the IMMA is housed in the 17th century Royal Hospital , Kilmainham . |
| 9 | Thank you for your letter of the 17th February 19 … concerning … |
| 10 | The privilege half illustrated was issued to a female as a hunk was cut out of the top of the ticket , and could have been used by the one lady employee , or the wife or female dependant of an employee of the B.C.R. , or any other railway , who took a ride on the 17th January 1934 . |
| 11 | In Lichfield , Staffordshire last week for the 17th Lichfield Literary Dinner were authors Joanna Trollope and Mark Wallington . |
| 12 | I got to France on the 15th May 1915 and I stayed there until the 21st February 1919 . |
| 13 | On the 15th May 1583 , there moved to Halling its most distinguished resident , William Lambarde , who by this time was well known as the author of books on law , and of his Perambulation of Kent . |
| 14 | The answer is an amazing 4 miles , on the 15th November 1967 , between West Virginia and Ohio , USA . |
| 15 | However that was where the comeback ended and it was with much relief that Parrott eventually clinched victory , taking the 15th frame 64-11 . |
| 16 | However that was where the comeback ended and it was with much relief that Parrott eventually clinched victory , taking the 15th frame 64-11 . |
| 17 | In 1977 , an improved version of the same program won the 84th Minnesota Open against a field whose strength was just under the Master level . |
| 18 | No two coalfields were the same , but if a general pattern can be discerned from the variety of experience it is that during the first half of the nineteenth century each region largely generated its own workforce from the natural increase of its population , but that the spectacular later developments drew not only upon local men who left the farms or rural crafts and industries in large numbers but also upon the surplus population of counties from all over the British Isles . |
| 19 | She probably knows more about the nineteenth century industrial novel than anyone else in the entire world . |
| 20 | In the mid-eighteenth century the linen industry made its appearance , though power looms had to wait till after the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution . |
| 21 | By the end of the nineteenth century all of the western States save New Mexico had granted women 's suffrage , which then spread rapidly eastward through the northern States . |
| 22 | But , muscular Christians all , they were not averse to reinforcing moral injunctions with physical force-Throughout most of the nineteenth century one of the Royal Navy 's main tasks was the suppression of the slave trade on the west and east African coasts . |
| 23 | In the nineteenth century such arrests were almost unknown . |
| 24 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 25 | In the nineteenth century such ice-houses tended to become redundant when ice was imported to this country from Norway and North America throughout the year . |
| 26 | In the nineteenth century two docks were built , the Alexandra and the Bentinck , capable of handling large ships from the Continent . |
| 27 | It is not perhaps generally realised that this practice began as early as the late seventeenth century and that many of the splendid coloured aquatint books of the nineteenth century first reached the public in this way . |
| 28 | It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre . |
| 29 | The ‘ middle class ’ designation has retained some validity for so long , covering such disparate socio-economic categories , largely because of the remarkable tenacity of the amalgam of cultural values which characterised the nineteenth century middle classes : part bourgeois ( thrift , independence ) and part acquired from the aristocracy and gentry ( respectability , ‘ gentlemanly ’ behaviour ) . |
| 30 | Although at first mainly farmers , by the nineteenth century many more were substantial tradesmen , manufacturers , or professional men , suffering , like the Birmingham banker Samuel Tertius Galton , from ‘ commercial weariness ’ . |