Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Korean ware comes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes a hexagonal vase and a square section bottle vase , both estimated at £30–40,000 ( $55–70,000 ) . |
| 2 | Dr. Jack Weir , moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland , met Roy Mason , the secretary of state for Northern Ireland , on 31st March and presented him with a memorandum drafted in judicious , forceful terms . |
| 3 | Mukerji focuses on the early modern period of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as marking a highly significant rise in material culture , so that peasants and ordinary town dwellers who had remarkably few personal possessions in late medieval periods ( Braudel 1981 : 283 ) were becoming familiar with many more products , and from a much wider area ( Burke 1978 : 246–8 ) . |
| 4 | The need for a more balanced architecture , with readings being ordered not as a result of depth-first search but according to numerical scores to which all system components can contribute , will now be argued in more detail by looking at four types of co-ordination problem occurring in anaphora resolution . |
| 5 | Gower needed just two runs to reach 7,000 in his hundredth Test and got them , only to fall immediately to a quite unnecessary flick down the leg side . |
| 6 | The game 's only try — Turnbull 's second for Scotland — was recorded in the 38th minute and emanated from Stark 's pursuit of Scott Hastings 's chip-kick which forced Rayer to concede a lineout two metres from the Welsh line . |
| 7 | Not without biblical significance , the exhibition marks the artist 's seventieth birthday and coincides with a revival of interest in his work . |
| 8 | Applied Linguistics , now in its fourteenth year and recognized and respected world-wide for its contribution to the field , is an ideal source for this information . |
| 9 | Population shortage had reduced the demand for land , and it was not until the sixteenth century that demand again began to exceed supply . |
| 10 | Part of the Semper wing of the Zwinger palace , the historic collection was known as the ‘ Rustkammer ’ ( armoury ) from the sixteenth century but renamed the ‘ Historisches Museum ’ after World War II . |
| 11 | It was dug up in the sixteenth century and achieved fame almost immediately , entering the imperial collections , and being drawn by artists such as Apianus in 1534 . |
| 12 | Here , the Nicholas family held some 500–600 acres of land by the later years of the sixteenth century and ranked with the Gittinses as the largest landowners in the parish . |
| 13 | Edo mushroomed from the late sixteenth century and had an estimated population of around one million by the mid-eighteenth century , probably making it the largest city in the world at the time . |
| 14 | He was the son of James Six ( 1695–1743 ) and his wife Ester , daughter of Louis Ducaufour , and descended from the Huguenot refugee families who came to Britain in the sixteenth century and settled in Canterbury , where they engaged in the silk-weaving trade . |
| 15 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 16 | Some of the property dates back to the fifteenth or sixteenth century and have old world gardens . |
| 17 | I like certain things ragged right for example , or fairly simple pages , but erm you can look back at the sixteenth century and find extremely simple pages , you know it 's not a modern idea and the thing is that most of the eddies and currents of popular graphic design are little stylistic exclusions that never go anywhere . |
| 18 | This teleological approach , which presents revolutions of the sixteenth century as failed attempts to realise the political programmes of the Enlightenment , runs through Le Roy Ladurie 's work , and informs his attitude to specific classes of phenomena . |
| 19 | Last year the firm with its strong Liverpool roots celebrated its 250th anniversary and advanced to full quotation on the London Stock Exchange . |
| 20 | This fashion of dimidiation was abandoned by at least the late fourteenth century and replaced by the style of compressing each set of armorial bearings onto one half of the shield — the husband 's being placed on the dexter and the wife 's on the sinister . |
| 21 | The Church of the Holy Virgin in the courtyard is of the fourteenth century and contains some fine wall paintings . |
| 22 | The sterling standard for silver ( 925 parts per thousand of silver with the remainder being mainly copper ) has its origins in the fourteenth century and has continued virtually without interruption to the present day . |
| 23 | It was built in the fourteenth century and shows Italian influence , being designed by craftsmen from Kotor ( Cattaro ) on the coast south of Dubrovnik where there is further Byzantine work . |
| 24 | DeFreitas and Malcolm finished Pakistan off with the new ball , Botham bagging his 120th catch and spoiling his chance to go ahead of Cowdrey when Waqar ( 0 ) edged Lewis . |
| 25 | Plans are going ahead for the proposed course — arrival on the Friday 16th May — start 17th May and end 23rd May — departure Saturday 24th May . |
| 26 | find out what they actually need which is the second part and to do that once you do that it 's quite easy , as I say once you 've actually made contact with them and you are on a friendly basis , you then , you can hold very very useful conversation and let them come over quite naturally . |
| 27 | She then opened the second case and performed a similar ritual with the .357 and the Charter Arms .22 . |
| 28 | Ranulf needed no second bidding but sped off like an arrow . |
| 29 | They needed no second bidding but rode as fast as they could , not pausing until they thundered through the half-open gate of Godstowe Priory , putting the porter into such serious agitation he appeared almost sober for once . |
| 30 | Athelstan needed no second bidding and sank gratefully into a chair , accepting the meat pastry , mince tart and cup of cold wine that Lady Maude pushed before him . |