Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | This activity continued into the later decades of the nineteenth century under successive directors : J. D. Hooker ( one of Darwin 's chief sources of information on the geographical distribution of plants ) and his son-in-law William Thiselton-Dyer ( 1843–1928 ) . |
| 2 | This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School . |
| 3 | Over 1,000,000 days ' work were lost due to strikes in the first quarter of 1991 , a figure exceeded in the second quarter under the combined impact of continuing miners ' strikes and protest strikes against price increases . |
| 4 | On Dec. 23 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced that it was delaying disbursement of SDR45,230,000 ( about US$64,675,000 ) , the second instalment under its enhanced structural adjustment facility ( ESAF ) , pending further discussion with the government about economic performance targets . |
| 5 | Hartlepool are in the Second Division under the new set-up , so we need only one promotion . |
| 6 | A high-level IMF team arrived in New Delhi on July 30 to begin negotiations on the second tranche under the standby arrangements . |
| 7 | Well she 's on the second balcony under in the centre under the top you know where the she 's said it 's great in the back there . |
| 8 | A former inmate of the Bloom yard , Lady Somerleyton 's Beau Seigneur , took the second Maiden under an enterprising ride from Lucy Hollis , who kicked for home at the fourteenth . |
| 9 | He hid the second shotgun under a fallen branch at the foot of one of the pines shading the beach . |
| 10 | One of the first such histories was written by the French writer and philosopher Montesquieu in the middle of the eighteenth century under the title The Spirit of the Laws . |
| 11 | The whole phenomenon of the Industrial Revolution must be seen as a cumulative process , resulting in an economic take-off at the end of the eighteenth century under the stimulus of the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 12 | In the mid-sixth century under Justinian the Byzantine Empire reached its zenith of influence and greatness ; it covered an approximate area of a million square miles . |
| 13 | Thanks to the two teachers from S.W. London who served tea on the 27th June under considerable difficulties — a temperamental urn and lack of support from others in their area . |
| 14 | You know he works a long way down , on the fourth floor under the stage . |
| 15 | The first trial under the Witchcraft Act of 1563 was held in Chelmsford in 1566 , when Agnes Waterhouse was hanged largely on the evidence of a small child . |
| 16 | There is a very useful collection of 111 vessels of the first half of the first century under ‘ Belgic Verulamium ’ ; a group of 18 vessels from the filling of an unfinished well-shaft dated by a coin of Pius ( 145 — 161 ) ‘ lost in fair condition ’ , and a stamp of the samian potter GERMINVS who is also found on the Antonine Wall ( 142 — 163 ) ; a pit group ( Pit 6 , Insula V ) of 14 vessels with a coin of Pius ( 154 — 155 ) ; 9 vessels from Triangular Temple , from the filling between two floors of the courtyard ; there follows 9 more vessels , from different places , and 15 predating the S.E. gate , and finally , there are 7 from Pit 5 in building IV , considered as late fourth and possibly fifth century . |
| 17 | Following Taylor v Taylor [ 1938 ] KB 320 , the year in question was that from the first payment under the lease , and given that four such payments had already been made , the right to deduct tax was lost . |
| 18 | The operation of this 3% in three year rule is likely to be unduly restrictive when it first applies because of the expected need to grant substantial new options to sharesave scheme participants and at the same time allow for the first allocations under the proposed executive share option scheme . |
| 19 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 20 | In 1886 Douglas Fox and James Brunlees [ q.v. ] were knighted on completion of the first tunnel under the Mersey which , along with the railway linking Birkenhead with Liverpool , they had jointly engineered . |
| 21 | The accumulated rights , earned on the basis of Peru 's performance under its IMF-monitored adjustment programme , would then be encashed as the first disbursement under a successor IMF-supported programme . |
| 22 | ‘ I can play better , but I was reasonably happy with my game and I 'm delighted to have got the first tie under my belt , ’ said McCann . |
| 23 | David had originally made a demo with John Hutchinson , a demo which had been taken to Philips who were releasing in this country for Mercury Records in America , and they all agreed that this would be the first single under that contract . ’ |
| 24 | Jude the Obscure was serialised in Harper 's New Monthly Magazine between December 1894 and November 1895 , the first part under the title The Simpletons , but subsequently as Hearts Insurgent . |
| 25 | It was the first performance under the name Depeche Mode , and also David Gahan 's debut . |
| 26 | That weekend had been more strained than usual because Frances Shand Kydd — Earl Spencer 's former wife , and mother of his four children — was for the first time under the same roof as Raine . |
| 27 | The CNT — not for the first time under the Republic — was driven virtually underground and most of the UGT executive imprisoned . |
| 28 | American soldiers will serve for the first time under a non-American chief , a Turk . |
| 29 | Soviet military inspectors , acting for the first time under the CFE Treaty , completed inspections of French and UK military sites ( the latter in Germany ) on Sept. 20 and 21 [ for Soviet inspections under INF treaty see p. 38217 ] . |
| 30 | Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday ! |