Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lichfield , Staffordshire last week for the 17th Lichfield Literary Dinner were authors Joanna Trollope and Mark Wallington . |
| 2 | In the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries large estates were usually run from the main residence of the landowner — particularly the large country house or stately home ( Fig. 23 ) . |
| 3 | Second , on their sixteenth birthday young people would be required to report for interviews with their youth employment officers . |
| 4 | The second part covers ‘ geometrical optical illusions ’ , a term as Wade says with ‘ a rather archaic ring to it , echoing the mid-19th century Teutonic desire for precision ’ . |
| 5 | They were known to several medieval writers , including the mid-twelfth century Norman bishop and controversialist , Arnulf of Lisieux . |
| 6 | The Virgin has always been more popular than Christ in the New World ; indeed in the sixteenth century certain churchmen had argued that while the East was the domain of Christ , the newly discovered West was that of his mother . |
| 7 | Since the historians of the nineteenth century dubbed the immense complexity of sixteenth century religious change in Europe ‘ The Reformation ’ many of us have rather simplistic ideas of what was involved . |
| 8 | National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities . |
| 9 | Our four English mystics may lack the imaginative and mythical depths of the great Kabbalists and Sufis , they may not be as daring and extreme as Eckhart and they certainly do not have the lyrical passion of the sixteenth century Spanish mystics St Teresa of Avila ( 1515–82 ) and St John of the Cross ( 1542–91 ) , but they bear witness to the profundity and intelligence of the new English spirituality of their day . |
| 10 | An exploration of the sixteenth century Italian Madrigal and contemporary dances and canzonas , by composers ranging from Verdelot to Monteverdi . |
| 11 | Nearby is the sixteenth century wooden Pont de Berne and the Town Hall of 1500–22 . |
| 12 | Moreover , since the end of the sixteenth century incoming cottagers had no common rights and were dependent entirely upon their labour for their living . |
| 13 | In the course of the fourteenth century mechanical clocks became progressively more numerous in Europe , most of those that were not installed in churches being public clocks . |
| 14 | A common lawyer , as in the 1520s , might seem a better choice than either a noble or a cleric in an office so concerned with the law , but in the early fourteenth century common lawyers were regarded with some suspicion by the king-witness the attempts to get them barred from parliament — and by people whose complaints about the corruption of lay judges were frequent until late in the century . |
| 15 | In the fourteenth century mystical awakening we see the first signs of a deeper and more committed type of religion , which would finally culminate in both Protestant and Catholic reformations . |
| 16 | The English mystics , like their European contemporaries , did foreshadow these changes , but not in a way that people who are familiar with more well-known fourteenth century English literature might expect . |
| 17 | Both David and Gavin , already 2nd Dan and 1st Dan Black Belts respectively , have been told they have every chance of bringing home gold medals for Great Britain . |
| 18 | On this day : the Order of the Bath was constituted , 1399 ; Pope Leo X conferred the title ‘ Defender of the Faith ’ on Henry VIII , 1521 ; Peter the Great became Tsar of Russia , 1669 ; the Chicago Fire ended , having almost completely destroyed the city at a cost of $196m , 1871 ; the Anglo-Boer War started , 1899 ; Czechoslovakia became an independent republic , 1918 ; inflation overtook German currency , with the mark dropping to an exchange rate of 10,000m to the pound , 1923 ; fighting broke out in China between the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under Mao Tse-tung , 1945 ; Pope John XXIII opened the second Vatican Ecumenical Council , 1963 . |
| 19 | ‘ Purple Skin ’ , selected for the second Whitechapel Open Show , has the colour and texture of bruised and damaged flesh ; broken skin , scalded in a domestic accident or bearing the marks of repeated labour with scourers and sodas . |
| 20 | After a theatrical demonstration by the instructor , everyone managed to perform this procedure satisfactorily , except for a young Second lieutenant medical student , who landed badly and broke his ankle . |
| 21 | Our second decision concerned Mrs Kate Duncan who , as a member of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , wanted to give a speech outside an unemployment training centre . |
| 22 | My second hypothesis concerned Mr Broadhurst himself . |
| 23 | This was clearly demonstrated in Duncan Sandys ' second Defence White Paper , published in February 1958 , in which disarmament was given pride of place . |
| 24 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 25 | There could be a comeback for Town player manager Glenn Hoddle … he 's with the second division select side in Italy this week and may even give himself a game across there … |
| 26 | Aged only twenty-four he had held down the post of KGB officer attached to the 502nd Guards Armoured Division stationed at Magdeburg in the German Democratic Republic . |
| 27 | In a second study left handers were observed in the speaking condition and while humming . |
| 28 | An application from Mrs. D. Espin on behalf of the 74th Juniper Green Rainbow Unit to hire the hall on Monday 24th February for a Tupperware and Coffee Evening etc , to raise funds for the sick kids appeal . |
| 29 | An application from Mrs. D. Espin on behalf of the 74th Juniper Green Rainbow Unit to hire the hall on Monday 24th February for a Tupperware and Coffee Evening etc , to raise funds for the sick kids appeal . |
| 30 | ‘ Constructing Culture : Media Education in the 1990s ’ is the theme for the second North American conference on media education . |