Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term for start-year payments at 0 per cent interest rate is only 14 , as the 15th payment is made on day 1 of the 15th year . |
| 2 | The 38th parallel was already being envisaged as a possible division but no decision was taken in July to propose it formally . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The 38th parallel was not an ideal boundary and in economic terms was absurd ; the 39th parallel would have been preferable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A notable inclusion at fourteenth place is the Blue Grotto , Capri ( 201,387 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | of constitutional law , for the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is now understood to outlaw internal compromises over important matters of principle . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The sixteenth edition was probably the first of the more recent editions to be widely accepted . |
| 14 | However , much of the detail in the fourteenth edition was a product of haphazard revision . |
| 15 | For this research a modified depth-first traversal was introduced and allowed authors to mark links as non-traversable . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | A Yorkshire mill-owner 's seventieth birthday is recorded as bringing ‘ callers all day , bringing little remembrances of flowers , fruit , etc ; ’ while a Kent farm labourer , on reaching the same age after 51 years on the same farm , was given a pension from a local charity and gave up work . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The girl or parents who worry because menstruation has not occurred by the sixteenth year are usually troubling themselves unduly ; the boy who troubles himself as to the length of his penis or the girl who worries about mammary development are also worrying unnecessarily as a rule . |
| 20 | The early sixteenth century is well represented by Northern Italian painters : a ‘ Penitent St Jerome ’ by Andrea Previtali ; the ‘ Coronation of Darius ’ by the Veronese Nicolo Giolfino ; a ‘ Madonna and Child with St Catherine ’ by Ortolano ( all exhibited by Voena ) , and a tenebrous ‘ St Jerome ’ by Bernardino Campi ( Benappi ) . |
| 21 | The sixteenth century is also featured in a work by Giordano Viroli , published by Nuova Alfa Editoriale titled La Pittura del Cinquecento a Forlì . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , the history of Venetian art in the first decade of the sixteenth century is still in many respects mysterious , not least in connection with Giorgione himself , whose oeuvre and development remains perhaps the most contentious single issue in the study of Italian Renaissance art . |
| 23 | The options open to at least one student in the early sixteenth century are mentioned and commented upon in a brief autobiographical note by Celalzade Mustafa near the beginning of his . |
| 24 | Iznik pottery of the sixteenth century was again in great demand . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | English music during the sixteenth century was prolific in every field and on the whole as remarkable in quality as in quantity . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In France , the bloody religious wars of the sixteenth century were fought partly against the arbitrary exercise of the royal prerogative . |
| 30 | The various reform movements of the sixteenth century were another attempt to adapt the Christian vision . |