Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 38th parallel was already being envisaged as a possible division but no decision was taken in July to propose it formally . |
| 2 | According to Lincoln 's recollection subsequently , he glanced at a map in his office and decided within ten seconds that the 38th parallel was the correct demarcation line between the zones of American and Soviet occupation . |
| 3 | Colonel Bonesteel believed the 38th parallel was the most satisfactory line in dividing Soviet and American spheres that could be arrived at-this would place Seoul , the Korean capital , in the American sphere . |
| 4 | The 38th parallel was not an ideal boundary and in economic terms was absurd ; the 39th parallel would have been preferable . |
| 5 | However , in favour of the 38th parallel was the fact that it appeared a rough and ready division , which might satisfy the Russians and give Seoul to the south . |
| 6 | The 38th parallel was an obvious line to adopt and had the merit from the American viewpoint of placing the border north of Seoul ; this maximised the territory under American direction . |
| 7 | American apprehension at the danger of the ROK provoking North Korea from across the 38th parallel was reinforced by serious incidents in early May 1949 . |
| 8 | Gray died tragically early from smallpox when he had published a second edition ; but willing hands carried on the work , and the 35th edition was published by Longman in 1973 . |
| 9 | After the Civil War , a Fourteenth Amendment was added binding state legislatures and courts in similar terms , so that protection against prior censorship was guaranteed , but not protection against proceedings for obscenity . |
| 10 | The sixteenth edition was probably the first of the more recent editions to be widely accepted . |
| 11 | However , much of the detail in the fourteenth edition was a product of haphazard revision . |
| 12 | For this research a modified depth-first traversal was introduced and allowed authors to mark links as non-traversable . |
| 13 | To kill off the prebendary , a reverend old man whose one hundredth birthday was going to be celebrated on the next Sunday , the second Sunday after Trinity , at St Andrew 's Church and just about everywhere else in Oxford … |
| 14 | Sir Richard , whose 80th birthday was actually last October , is acknowledged by his peers as one of the world 's leading cancer epidemiologists , but is probably most famous for demonstrating , together with the late Sir Austin Bradford Hill , that cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer . |
| 15 | Iznik pottery of the sixteenth century was again in great demand . |
| 16 | Only at the end of the sixteenth century was this nomadic watercourse properly recaptured for the town and its outlet fixed by some determined engineering . |
| 17 | English music during the sixteenth century was prolific in every field and on the whole as remarkable in quality as in quantity . |
| 18 | The third decade of the sixteenth century was a real turning-point in musical history — and not only because the Reformation quickly called into existence a body of religious music which preferred the vernacular to Latin and served other liturgical needs than those of the Roman church . |
| 19 | The economic development of England between the mid fourteenth and the early sixteenth century was determined by changes in the country 's population more than by any other single factor . |
| 20 | According to Scott , Marshall was seventeen times lawfully married , and after his hundredth year was the avowed father of four illegitimate children . |
| 21 | Strand-on-the-Green , which was originally only a collection of fishermen 's cottages at a riverside hamlet which , in the fourteenth century was called ‘ Stronde ’ then ‘ Ye Strande ’ by the end of the sixteenth century ; then later it became ‘ Strand Green ’ and then ‘ Strand in the Green ’ by the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | It is sometimes suggested that the mystical flowering of the fourteenth century was a reaction against the scientific and scholastic enthusiasms of the thirteenth century , which had sought to reinterpret the Christian experience in terms of the rationalistic philosophy of Aristotle . |
| 23 | The fourteenth century was to see a change among the natural leaders of military society from free service in the fulfilment of obligation to service in return for pay or reward . |
| 24 | The fourteenth century was a momentous century in the history of Wales . |
| 25 | The rise of the Nevilles and the Percies in the late fourteenth century was the first occasion when families of genuine northern origin came into the front rank of the nobility — one may exclude the duchy of Lancaster from any such comment , because it was closely connected with the royal family and also held substantial lands in the Midlands and the South . |
| 26 | The second course was advised by Ernest Bevin . |
| 27 | Lymphoblastoid α-IFN ( Wellferon , Wellcome , Beckenham , UK ) was given at a dose of 5 mega units daily according to the following regimen : a four week primer course , a four week rest period and a second interferon course lasting 16 weeks ; for five patients from Rotterdam the duration of the second course was prolonged up to 30 weeks . |
| 28 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
| 29 | When the second part was published in 1684 , Bunyan was no longer in danger of imprisonment . |
| 30 | The first part of the question that was asked by the hon. Member for Esher ( Mr. Taylor ) was in order , but the second part was out of order , as was the second part of the question asked by his hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley ( Mr. Riddick ) . |