Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the 316th year of the society , but events such as wars with Napoleon , ‘ Kaiser Bill ’ and Hitler have occasionally prevented it from taking place . |
| 2 | On the 17th day of June he left by plane with his section to join his squadron commander in France . |
| 3 | On the 17th day of the month of Ramadan , the anniversary of the murder of Ali , in the year 559 ( 8th August 1164 ) under the ascendancy of Virgo and when the sun was in Cancer , Hasan 2nd ordered the erection of a pulpit in the courtyard of Alamut , facing towards the west , with four great banners of four colours , white , red , yellow and green , at the four corners . |
| 4 | Among prominent Tory women , Mrs Edwina Currie , 45 , the outspoken former junior Health Minister , rode a determined Labour challenge to retain South Derbyshire with a much-reduced majority while Lady Olga Maitland , 46 , daughter of the 17th Earl of Lauderdale , former gossip columnist and tireless campaigner against nuclear disarmament , held the safe seat of Sutton and Cheam . |
| 5 | A total of 13 people were reportedly injured and 90 others arrested following violent confrontations with riot police during ceremonies and demonstrations on Sept. 11 , marking the 17th anniversary of Allende 's death . |
| 6 | According to the Foreign Ministry statement , the former officials were released on April 30 , the 17th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to the communist forces . |
| 7 | At last I made it — to Hong Kong that is , for the 17th playing of the Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Sevens . |
| 8 | Appendix 4 to the 17th Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Community states that ‘ Parliament does not require to be consulted before or during negotiations on a treaty or before a text is initialled ’ . |
| 9 | Mr. Michael Alison ( Second Church Estates Commissioner , representing the Church Commissioners ) : During 1989 the Church Commissioners will be producing a range of publications including their report and accounts for 1988 , the 17th report of the central stipends authority , a series of leaflets describing the work of the Church Commissioners , and a brochure on commended entries for the parsonage design award competition . |
| 10 | Mrs Barzach will have a much more difficult time retaining her seat in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , which she has represented for only the past three years and where she is standing against the well-established local RPR mayor ( and deputy mayor of the capital ) . |
| 11 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |
| 12 | Between the 1st day of July 1987 and the 15th day of October 1987 conspired together and with other persons fraudulently to induce persons to enter into agreements for acquiring or subscribing for securities , namely shares in Blue Arrow plc , by making statements which they knew to be misleading , false or deceptive or by dishonestly concealing material facts or by recklessly making statements which were misleading , false or deceptive namely : 1.1 By failing to notify the Company Announcements Office of the Quotations Department of the International Stock Exchange by way of a Class 2 announcement ( as provided for by Section 6 of the Council of the Stock Exchange 's admission of securities to listing ) following the purchase of shares in Manpower Incorporated for a consideration in excess of 5 per cent of the consolidated net assets of Blue Arrow ; 1.2 By concealing the fact that the level of Acceptances of provisionally allotted new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow was 38.04 per cent at the expiry of the offer by way of rights issue at 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.3 By concealing the fact that 54,625,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow were taken up after 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.4 By falsely stating that , in connection with the rights issue of 504.4 million new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow , acceptances had been received in respect of 246.5 million shares which represented 48.9 per cent of the rights issue . |
| 13 | I was born in 1810 , in September , the 15th day of the month . |
| 14 | Item 5 is a weekly benefit , of which the first 14 days of any period of incapacity is excluded and benefit is payable for 104 weeks from the 15th day of incapacity . |
| 15 | The first 14 days of any period of disablement is excluded and benefit is payable for up to 104 weeks from the 15th day of disablement . |
| 16 | To commemorate the 15th anniversary of Elvis ' death last Sunday we 've teamed up with BMG Records in a fabulous £1,300 competition to give away 30 copies of The King Of Rock ‘ n Roll — The Complete ‘ 50s Masters featuring 140 of the King 's classics , including previously unreleased songs . |
| 17 | MARC BOLAN is the subject of a new book published to commemorate the 15th anniversary of his death . |
| 18 | The summit marked the 15th anniversary of the creation of the regional body in Lagos in 1975 [ for list of member states see p. 36991 ] . |
| 19 | At the head of these troops was a battalion of fusiliers of the 15th Regiment of Infantry , commanded by Maj von Keller , which Gneisenau had earlier discovered sprawling in the ditches by the roadside within sight of Genappe . |
| 20 | The Senate confirmed Robert M. Gates as the 15th director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) by 64 votes to 31 on Nov. 5 . |
| 21 | Its narrator 's confessional outpourings are given an ironic descant by his obsession with James Buchanan , the 15th President of the US . |
| 22 | In a report to the 15th conference of the Kosovo LC on Nov. 9 , 1989 , Rahman Morina , its president , said that the struggle in Kosovo had taken a new turn and accused people of trying to encourage processes aimed at destroying Yugoslavia and at changing its federal system . |
| 23 | For the delegates to the 15th meeting of parties to the Antarctic Treaty , the main topic of discussion over the next 10 days will be the status of an agreement — the Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities — which collapsed in the summer after the French and Australian governments decided , in consultation with each other , to withdraw their support . |
| 24 | Negotiators from the two countries agreed in Geneva , at the end of the 15th round of bilateral talks which closed on April 26 , to cut their chemical weapons stocks to 5,000 tonnes each , and in June a summit accord between them formally endorsed a ban on the production of chemical weapons [ see p. 37518 ] . |
| 25 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 26 | It was not , Robert decided , very sporting of the headmaster to park the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees on him . |
| 27 | Robert whirled round on his mother , suspecting her of some collusion with the child , but , with the wistful fondness of a woman who has finished with childbearing , Mrs Wilson was still gazing at the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 28 | ‘ We are talking about the Occultation of the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees ! |
| 29 | Not only that : his was the round , jolly face he had seen in the window the day he had been hit on the head outside the room where he had been watching the Occultation of the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 30 | The blood tests have to be conducted during the 16th–18th weeks of the pregnancy , and therefore depend on the mother knowing , with some accuracy , the date of her last menstrual period . |