Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Pool had done their plundering a twin strike in the sixteenth minute the match , as a contest , was over . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The earliest narrow boats were very simply painted with the owner 's name and address and basic geometric designs , but during the mid-19th century a form of decoration now known as ‘ Roses and Castles ’ developed introducing a rich and varied tradition which has lasted to this day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the mid-twelfth century a castle was built on the headland and a new town laid out below it . |
| 6 | From the sixteenth century a series of colonists had realised the economic potential of the area and established plantations growing cash crops such as tea , coffee , cocoa , rubber and pepper . |
| 7 | A papal Secretaria Apostolica in Rome for carrying on official correspondence had its functions defined by Pope Innocent VIII in 1487 ; and by the early sixteenth century a quite extensive and well-organised papal secretariat concerned largely with relations with the secular states of Europe had developed . |
| 8 | Well Jennifer I think it 's er viburnum lanterna and it 's quite an interesting er bush because it was in the sixteenth century a er gave the tree its poetic name as he frequently come across it in old drove roads er over and across the old drove roads in the chalk downs of er from Winchester to Epsom and London but sorry about this it can grow to fifteen feet and in May it opens up its cluster of white flowers and it 's really quite an attractive thing but the berries I do n't think are so attractive so I think erm |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the early sixteenth century the family assets were estimated at more than sixty-three million florins . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By the last quarter of the sixteenth century the issue of ‘ official mourning ’ was on the wane . |
| 14 | In the late sixteenth century the south coast of Thera , together with the port of Eleusis , vanished under the sea and stayed there . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | In the sixteenth century the word ‘ empire ’ did not usually refer to a state with transoceanic possessions of this sort . |
| 19 | In the sixteenth century the right to import commodities , or to process them domestically , normally rested on a grant of a monopoly . |
| 20 | And during the sixteenth century the Crown exploited this massive reservoir of land and labour to effect a major increase in state power . |
| 21 | By the sixteenth century the initiative long held by the defender , surrendered in the late fourteenth century , had been largely regained . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Both had the broadly similar functions of recording , in different ways , payments into and out of the Exchequer of Receipt ; but from the middle of the sixteenth century the older office , the Clerkship of the Pells , was being encroached upon by the Writer of the Tallies . |
| 24 | Until well into the sixteenth century the royal court and its functionaries were peripatetic . |
| 25 | In the sixteenth century the Spanish Armada , before its abortive attempt to invade Britain . |
| 26 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 27 | At times Slavonia in the north and parts of Bosnia in the south were detached , and in the sixteenth century the whole inland area south of the Sava fell to the Turks . |
| 28 | In the early sixteenth century the Reformation made considerable progress amongst the Slovenes , and Protestant schools and churches were established in Laibach ( Ljubljana ) and other Slovene towns . |
| 29 | But in Western Europe in the sixteenth century the situation was quite different . |
| 30 | Until near the middle of the sixteenth century the enrolment of a student who had completed , or nearly completed , his studies as a candidate for office and the subsequent appointment of him to a post seems to have been rather a disorganized process . |