Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order . |
| 2 | Young people So far as children and young people are concerned , it is well recognized in historical work on the nineteenth century that the growth of state intervention to control the employment of children , and to establish and expand compulsory education , had the effect of altering the balance of obligations between parents and children . |
| 3 | Yet simultaneously and apparently paradoxically it was during the nineteenth century that the debate about sexuality exploded . |
| 4 | As Raynor ( 1969 ) noted , the first use of the term ‘ middle class ’ in Britain was probably in the early years of the nineteenth century ( Raynor quotes the Oxford English Dictionary 's date of 1812 ) , and it was during the nineteenth century that the ‘ middle class ’ developed into an identifiable and vocal , if rather vaguely defined , social collectivity . |
| 5 | Those engaged in classifying creatures in museums worked anyway with dead ones ; it was only at the very end of the nineteenth century that the collecting of dead animals and dead birds gave way to the careful observation of living ones , using binoculars . |
| 6 | With Mrs. Crawley , the narrative reflects the belief of most people in the nineteenth century that the best place for a woman is with her husband , supporting and caring for him . |
| 7 | However , it was not until the mid-19th century that the clinical implications of such a device were envisaged , and only recently that contact lenses became part of the routine armoury of medical corrective devices . |
| 8 | For those who care about such things a little bleeper has just come onto the market to enable you to check that you are following the two-second rule that the police recommend . |
| 9 | It is not until the last quarter of the sixteenth century that the shrouded effigy appears as the central sculptural feature on funerary monuments . |
| 10 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's about the second problem that the Professor raised . |
| 12 | It is in answering the second question that the historical parallel is illuminating . |
| 13 | It must therefore be stated in reply to the first part of the second question that the term ‘ matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict ’ within the meaning of article 5(3) of the Convention must be regarded as an independent concept covering all actions which seek to establish the liability of a defendant and which are not related to a ‘ contract ’ within the meaning of article 5(1) . |
| 14 | And it was probably the second door that the professor heard . ’ |
| 15 | It is the second year that the Northern Development Corporation has run the Quality Quest competition among schools from Redcar to Carlisle . |
| 16 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |
| 17 | This is the second time that the sisters have been deceived in this way . |
| 18 | This is the second time that the dinner , in its eighth year , has had the privilege of a Prime Minister as its guest speaker . |
| 19 | This is only the second time that the House has been given an opportunity to debate the momentous consequences of the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 20 | It was a repeat of the result of the first Fourball series at Muirfield village two years ago but only the second time that the Americans had been shut out since the fourball format was introduced at Atlanta in 1963 . |
| 21 | This was the second time that the centre-left coalition government of President Patricio Aylwin Azócar had successfully introduced changes to the authoritarian 1980 Constitution inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship [ for January amendment see p. 37958 ] . |
| 22 | It was not until the eighteenth century that the history of the Shorthorn became clearly recorded . |
| 23 | It was not until the eighteenth century that the word Champagne became synonymous with the sparkling wine of the region . |
| 24 | It was in the second half of the eighteenth century that the presence of black people in Britain began to give rise to recognizable black communities , with a total black population of probably around 10,000 , although some historians have produced even higher estimates . |
| 25 | It was not until the eighteenth century that the Roman road was re-used and became important as a through route . |
| 26 | The Benedictine monasteries regarded themselves as islands of true Christianity in a sea of pagan barbarism and it was not until the eleventh century that the monks of the abbey of Cluny and its affiliated houses began a campaign that was able to educate the laity and local clergy . |
| 27 | SYMMETRY in border ornament and surface decoration is ancient history for artists , but it was not until the crystallographers started on three-dimensional lattices in the 19th century that the mathematics was fully analysed . |
| 28 | Education is a great political issue today , but it was not until the second quarter of the 19th century that the government had any interest in it . |
| 29 | Incidentally , it was not until the end of the fifteenth century that the sand-glass was depicted as the attribute of Father Time . |
| 30 | It was recognised in the fifteenth century that the right had to give way to the public interest in the administration ofjustice . |