Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He outlined the long connections of the New River Head site back to early in the 17th century when what was probably the first privatised water company was established by James I ( VI of Scotland ) . |
| 2 | The first turkeys were shipped to Europe in the 17th Century when ‘ Turkish ’ was a blanket term for anything which came from or through Arab lands . |
| 3 | After a confident start United took the lead in the 17th minute when the elusive Thornley centred for Butt to rifle home a first time shot . |
| 4 | They took the lead in the 17th minute when Mike Sheron 's shot from the edge of the Rangers box hit the post and Republic of Ireland international striker Niall Quinn fired home the rebound . |
| 5 | With reference to your telephone conversation with my secretary on the 15th instant when you confirmed that you had completed your mortgage arrangements with Barclays Bank PLC , Bishops ' Stortford and that it was in order for me to deal with the draft Contract when it was received . |
| 6 | Tempers briefly flared in the 15th minute when Steve Nicol was flattened by Viktor Onopko 's blatant lunge , which followed a crunching challenge seconds beforehand . |
| 7 | Bradford went ahead in the 15th minute when Tony Marchant snapped up a loose ball and squeezed in at the corner . |
| 8 | But Townsend gave his side a deserved lead in the 19th minute The Republic of Ireland midfielder was perfectly positioned in the nineteenth minute when Graeme Le Saux touched back a crossfield ball from Fleck for his skipper to drive home a low shot . |
| 9 | Travel for pleasure was almost unheard of until the nineteenth century when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote , ‘ For my part , I travel not to go anywhere , but to go . |
| 10 | Henry Salt , writing at the end of the nineteenth century when laws protecting animals were firmly in place , complained that , |
| 11 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 12 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 13 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 14 | In the middle of the nineteenth century when , according to calculations , destruction was again imminent , the canny Victorians strengthened defences . |
| 15 | At that period of the nineteenth century when the discipline of anthropology was coming into being , material culture studies represented the very core of this emergent social science ( e.g. Haddon 1895 ; Tylor 1881 ) . |
| 16 | The decline of the Hellenistic world left Alexandria isolated , and it did not again become a great cosmopolitan city until the nineteenth century when its resurrection was built on the profits of cotton . |
| 17 | The long-term trends in population redistribution during the latter half of the twentieth century have broadly been serving to undo the principal features of population change in the nineteenth century when the North 's share of national population increased and people concentrated into the major urban and industrial agglomerations . |
| 18 | These associations can often trace their origins back to the nineteenth century when they were , under different names , primarily concerned with giving relief in cash and kind to families in distress . |
| 19 | The close involvement of religious leaders with the civil affairs of their followers had fateful consequences during the nineteenth century when the declining Ottoman empire faced the rising tide of Slav nationalism . |
| 20 | It dates from the latter half of the nineteenth century when improvements in local passenger transport allowed people to reside at greater distances from their workplaces . |
| 21 | Control of local authority borrowing began in the nineteenth century when central government was suspicious of the new local authorities and their potential to borrow money they could not repay . |
| 22 | The conceit of the ‘ found document ’ , discovered , preserved , and presented to the public by an ‘ editor ’ was a justification no longer necessary in the nineteenth century when the novel was firmly established as a genre . |
| 23 | The failure is said to have its origins in the second half of the nineteenth century when a number of changes were taking place in the structure of British domestic banking , and in the nature of corporate ownership . |
| 24 | Booth 's survey also had an influence on a similar movement in the United States , though its roots go back to the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of small surveys on the " dangerous classes " were undertaken . |
| 25 | This branch was controlled by incorporated companies based in London — a dominance still marked in the first decade of the nineteenth century when City-based firms were responsible for 90 per cent of sums insured . |
| 26 | Built in limestone , it was extensively restored in the nineteenth century when the Rheno-Lombardic west front took its final form . |
| 27 | That perhaps was an understandable mistake in the nineteenth century when , for example , in this country the population was expanding very rapidly . |
| 28 | A number of churches here survived the Turkish occupation , but were lost in the nineteenth century when the capital of the newly independent Greece was re-organised and planned on broad lines . |
| 29 | S. Nicodemus is the oldest of this group of churches but was excessively restored and altered in the nineteenth century when the campanile was built . |
| 30 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |