Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the harnessing of water-power for mills and river navigation interlinked with a new system of canals laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution . |
| 2 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the theory found its doctrinal expression in the ultra vires rule . |
| 3 | Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the suit evolved into styles which survive , if at all , only as formal dress — the evening tailcoat now worn with white tie , the morning coat often used at formal weddings , and the rarely seen frock coat . |
| 4 | Under their stewardship and that of their descendants , development of the lead-bearing fields expanded until by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the pattern of lead-mining in the Dales had become established . |
| 5 | Second , though before the enclosures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the pattern of agriculture in this zone was basically a medieval one , it is also true to say that that in most of the rest of England was also medieval or even earlier in appearance . |
| 6 | Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature . |
| 7 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the ‘ thirst for new land ’ , as in the past , resulted in the breaking up of marginal scrub for wheat . |
| 8 | He has seen in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the emergence of a commercial " leisure industry " responding to a bourgeois desire to emulate the existing minority culture of the elite . |
| 9 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the verderers , regarders and agisters usually held office for life , provided that they discharged their duties faithfully and well , but in the fifteenth century the authority of the verderer , like that of the coroner , was brought to an end by the death of the king , and the sheriffs were ordered to hold new elections . |
| 10 | In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the laity began to enter the lawcourts . |
| 11 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Dalmatian cities changed hands many times , but despite these upheavals they enjoyed long periods of prosperity and their commerce and their arts flourished . |
| 12 | Between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries the republic of Ragusa was able , by treaties with its neighbours and by purchase , to extend its territorial base . |
| 13 | But when the new Parliament assembled on 31st May the balance of parties was the same as before , and in negotiations which followed , Disraeli offered Palmerston a seat in a Conservative Government , with the possibility of being Prime Minister . |
| 14 | Once Pool had done their plundering a twin strike in the sixteenth minute the match , as a contest , was over . |
| 15 | By the sixteenth week the male testes are in position for descent during the last two months of foetal existence and the vagina has fully formed in the female . |
| 16 | By the mid-19th century the Machine Age had arrived with a vengeance , which was only fitting , since that Age had itself begun in the west of Scotland . |
| 17 | During the sixteenth century the Brydges bought up the neighbouring estate belonging to the Garways ( now called Garnstone ) , and at the height of their affluence James Brydges married Jane Blount and built The Ley exactly as you see it today . |
| 18 | In the early sixteenth century the family assets were estimated at more than sixty-three million florins . |
| 19 | On the contrary , Chinese horological techniques did not advance , and when the Jesuits brought their clocks to China in the sixteenth century the inventions of Su Sung and others had long been forgotten . |
| 20 | In the sixteenth century the Swiss physician Paracelsus tried to introduce more logical and effective methods of treatment.and laid the foundations of a pharmaceutical approach to drug selection , while at the same time reviving the idea of treatment by similars . |
| 21 | By the last quarter of the sixteenth century the issue of ‘ official mourning ’ was on the wane . |
| 22 | In the late sixteenth century the south coast of Thera , together with the port of Eleusis , vanished under the sea and stayed there . |
| 23 | In the sixteenth century the prevalent Faentine maiolica could not be imitated in Venice due to the nature of the local clay while the next century saw the rise of blue and grey-coloured ware from Benettino and red and white from the Padua region . |
| 24 | It also , however , involved conversions at grass-roots level , for in the course of the sixteenth century the people of England ceased to be overwhelmingly Catholic and became predominantly Protestant . |
| 25 | While a small number of individuals in Elizabethan England stood outside this Calvinist consensus , as Nicholas Tyacke has commented : ‘ it is not an exaggeration to say that by the end of the sixteenth century the Church of England was largely Calvinist in doctrine . ’ |
| 26 | In the sixteenth century the word ‘ empire ’ did not usually refer to a state with transoceanic possessions of this sort . |
| 27 | In the sixteenth century the right to import commodities , or to process them domestically , normally rested on a grant of a monopoly . |
| 28 | And during the sixteenth century the Crown exploited this massive reservoir of land and labour to effect a major increase in state power . |
| 29 | By the sixteenth century the initiative long held by the defender , surrendered in the late fourteenth century , had been largely regained . |
| 30 | From the late sixteenth century the size of a domain was expressed in terms of the rice production it could command , and this assessment was made in terms of koku . |