Example sentences of "appeared [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At precisely the same time as circumcision and the blood of circumcision was receiving this new casting and additional dimension , legislation about female blood — i.e. the blood of menstruation and childbirth — appeared for the first time on the scene . |
| 2 | Of these , three items , ‘ A Visit to Newgate ’ , ‘ The Black Veil ’ , and ‘ The Great Winglebury Duel ’ appeared for the first time in this collection . |
| 3 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |
| 4 | Similarly a small black hoverfly , Cheilosia bergenstammi , whose larvae feed on ragwort , was captured in 1972 , 1973 and 1974 ( N= 19 ) and has not been seen since , whereas C. vernalis , whose food plant is unknown , appeared for the first time in 1978 and has since become frequent ( N=118 ) . |
| 5 | So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels . |
| 6 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 7 | It introduced greater facilities for synthesis , and the Areas Table appeared for the first time . |
| 8 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 9 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 10 | His coaching duties with the Scotland sevens squad concluded for the day , he duly appeared for the second half of the semi-final against the relatively fresh-faced youths of White Hart Marauders — inspired by England internationalists , Dewi Morris and Jeremy Guscott , and B caps , Damian Hopley and Justyn Cassell . |
| 11 | Mr Speaker Weatherill , who opened the exhibition , appeared for the last time before retirement in the distinctive tail-coat , knee-breeches and white bands of his office . |
| 12 | The Legal Services Committee continued in 1992 where it left off in 1991 and in January 1992 representatives of the committee appeared for the third time before the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct . |
| 13 | Aegean civilization , as this appeared during the first half of the second millennium B.C. , was sufficiently sure of its own identity to engage in traffic with the older ones of south-west Asia and the Nile Valley . |
| 14 | A girl appeared from the next room . |
| 15 | About 1737 Gray published a broadsheet catalogue in French and English , its alphabetical list of ‘ American Trees and Shrubs that will endure the Climate of England ’ framing a Magnolia grandiflora which also appeared in the second volume of Catesby 's The Natural History of Carolina ( 2 vols. , 1729–47 ) , engraved after a drawing by G. D. Ehret [ q.v. ] of a magnolia in flower in the garden of Sir Charles Wager [ q.v. ] in Parson 's Green in 1737 . |
| 16 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Wordsworth wrote all the poems , with the exception of Tintern Abbey , which subsequently appeared in the first volume of Lyrical Ballads . |
| 18 | What Schumpeter ( 1942 ) called the ‘ march into socialism ’ seems to have slackened its pace ; and socialism , which appeared in the nineteenth century as the ideal image of an alternative society , providing an indispensable unifying element in working-class consciousness , has become in the late twentieth century a more problematic reality ( Stojanovic , 1973 ; Kolakowski and Hampshire , 1974 ; Parekh , 1975 ) . |
| 19 | Solicitors first appeared in the fifteenth century . |
| 20 | Geometric arrays of holes appeared in the mid-nineteenth century — probably in parallel with the Victorian enthusiasm for patterned ‘ polychromatic ’ brickwork — and seem to be the most widespread type . |
| 21 | Of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists , however , I confess to having listed only Iain Banks , Kazuo Ishiguro ( both of whom appeared in the third edition ) and Jeanette Winterson , although I think there is scope too for Will Self , Nicholas Shakespeare and maybe Ben Okri . |
| 22 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |
| 23 | They first appeared in the seventeenth century and ceased to be built after the middle of the nineteenth century , when the advent of portable threshing machines meant that ricks could be built and threshed in the fields and field barns were no longer needed . |
| 24 | He noted my suggestion and D'Oliveira 's name duly appeared in the next Honours List with , I think , an OBE. |
| 25 | Photography , Songwriting and Creative Writing ) appeared in the last issue of Hot Press . |
| 26 | Lévi-Strauss ' famous objections to Sartre , which appeared in the last chapter of The Savage Mind ( 1962 ) , are sometimes represented as if they were merely a structuralist attack on Marxism . |
| 27 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 28 | Outside the marched in the aborigines had their fire of gum tree branches to purify the atmosphere very much like the flames of fire which appeared on the first whit Sunday . |
| 29 | She performed with fellow West Londoners the Mighty Ethnicz on the recent Ice T tour and also appeared on the last Mantronix video . |
| 30 | The following paragraph appeared on the last page of a recently published official report : perhaps it should have been nearer the front ! |