Example sentences of "the sixth [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight , June 20th , the sixth night of her imprisonment . |
| 2 | Making concessions to Lenin 's Indian and ‘ Asia-First ’ opponent , M N Roy , the Commission had , throughout the theses , replaced ‘ bourgeois-democratic ’ by ‘ revolutionary ’ and the result was , as one may see in the sixth thesis , that the revolutionary-liberation movement in backward countries or among backward nationalities was invited to determine what forms this alliance should take . |
| 3 | Five other nice but provocable strategies ended up nearly as successful ( frequent in the population ) as Tit for Tat ; indeed , one of them won the sixth run . |
| 4 | He was elected as but the sixth member of the exclusive Accademia dei Lincei ( that is , the Academy of the Lynx-eyed ) . |
| 5 | The crew of six survived the impact , five of them escaped to Sweden by the sixth member , Vic Stevens the Flight Engineer , injured his foot and being unable to travel was captured by the Germans . |
| 6 | At last the sixth member of the group arrived , and Tallis almost smiled as she recognized the type . |
| 7 | If it 's erm if it 's a school teacher as in primary schools where they 're going to teach a lot across a range of subjects , one of the new measures I think is going to help and that is the introduction of the sixth subject , erm Bachelor of Education Degree , because maths , English and science will be the core three subjects and the other three subjects will be of choice , so there 's an opportunity there for one of those subjects to be religious education and it will be taught in greater depth to those teachers . |
| 8 | Arctic Paddy , ridden by Marcus Gorman , won the sixth G.N.I. City of London Race , at Tweseldown on Saturday . |
| 9 | The sixth text is the condemnation of anti-semitism : the Council ‘ deplores the hatred , persecutions , and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and from any source ’ ( Nostra Aetate 4 ) . |
| 10 | The 1st oboe plays the top line in the preceding four bars , and gives place to the 1st clarinet on reaching the aforesaid high F. Note the smooth movement of the horns in the chord-passage , and the introduction of the 2nd clarinet on the low E to complete the harmony at the sixth bar from the end . |
| 11 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 12 | erm The second leg of the Radio Oxford yankee is in the sixth race , this is the second quarter final of the Pall Mall , and here I 'm going to go erm for Social Circle in trap one erm trained by Linda Mullins at Walthamstow , a perfect trap draw for this erm Edinburgh Cup winner , he 's won erm fifteen thousand in prize money . |
| 13 | The flight should be the sixth test of the shuttle ; the first five trips were all by the shuttle vehicle , Columbia . |
| 14 | Mrs Lemass made it clear where she stood by using a press conference in London at the launch of the sixth BDA week in October 1987 , for announcing that her committee would be calling on the European Parliament , the European Commission and the Council of Ministers to waive all opposition to the use of sign language and to demand official recognition within the EC . |
| 15 | Attention has recently focused on four sections of the sixth century wall mosaics from the church of Panayia Kanakaria , near Famagusta , which the Cypriot government is seeking to reclaim through the courts from an Indianapolis dealer . |
| 16 | He also read carefully the famous book of Pope Gregory the Great , from the sixth century , on the pastoral office in the Church . |
| 17 | Metalworking remains at Sardis in Turkey suggest that this process , called ‘ parting ’ , was employed there in the sixth century BC to refine gold from the river Pactolus . |
| 18 | A survey of niello composition , from the Roman period to the twentieth century , has identified the beginnings of a change in composition in the sixth century in Northern Europe when , perhaps for economic reasons , copper as well as silver was added to the crucible with the sulphur . |
| 19 | For example , two very similar copper-alloy statuettes both purport to be Etruscan of the sixth century BC ( fig. 8.3 ) . |
| 20 | Christians , having in the sixth century finally rejected the concept of reincarnation , were thrown back upon two main arguments justifying God 's ways to man , neither of which is altogether convincing . |
| 21 | When Judah was devastated by the Babylonians at the start of the sixth century BCE , the Edomites shared with the Babylonians in the capture and looting of Jerusalem , handed survivors over to them , and caught many trying to escape ( Obad. |
| 22 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 23 | Given that the rituals of circumcision and menstrual taboo , like the other blood rituals , would appear to have derived at least in their final form from the trauma of the exile to Babylon and the consequent restructuring of the Jewish community , we shall need to start our historical survey some centuries further back in time in order to locate and appreciate the profound changes which occurred in and around the sixth century BC . |
| 24 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 25 | The fact that both rituals continued to be practised even after the 70 AD fall of the Temple in Jerusalem when other cult-associated rituals fell into disuse and when the overt reason , at least , for the laws of female purity no longer pertained , demonstrates their central significance to the Jewish system of gender creation and differentiation — and the real hidden agenda behind their initial promulgation in the sixth century BC . |
| 26 | From the sixth century the title papa became especially Roman in the West . |
| 27 | Despite episcopal censures , the practice continued for a surprisingly long time ; measures were taken to stop Irish clergy so cohabiting as late as the sixth century . |
| 28 | Of missions sent by Roman bishops beyond the imperial frontiers we hear nothing until the sixth century . |
| 29 | At the end of the sixth century a Frankish king complained that all the riches were flowing into the hands of bishops at the expense of the royal fisc , and that royal authority was being eclipsed by that of the bishops of cities . |
| 30 | A Byzantine historian remarked of the Franks in the sixth century that ‘ although they have become Christians , they still keep a greater part of their ancient religion ’ . |