Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall see that in the nineteenth century this limited and special capacity was extended with some modifications to all married women ( see pp. 50–4 ) ; but that in 1935 it was swept away , and married women were given the same capacity to own property and make contracts as a man . |
| 2 | In the nineteenth century this leisurely view of the pageant of time began to speed up . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 4 | For much of the nineteenth century this strategy was attractive to local government because it enabled localities to maintain to a large degree their prized autonomy . |
| 5 | Since the middle of the nineteenth century this has produced a persistent surplus of population in the countryside with a consequent depression of wage levels-Rural depopulation has rarely proceeded on a scale to compensate for the reduced demand for labour in rural areas and neither has the demand for labour in the countryside been adequately stimulated by the provision of sufficient alternative employment opportunities to agriculture . |
| 6 | During the nineteenth century this link between the type of housing and the social structure of the village was made explicit in the lowland farming areas by the division between ‘ open ’ and ‘ closed ’ villages . |
| 7 | By the nineteenth century this language of animals and flowers had been almost lost , though E. H. Aitkin in India in 1883 , drawing a chameleon hunting a butterfly , could whimsically call it ‘ the pursuit of pleasure ’ . |
| 8 | But in spite of all this it seems likely that during much of the nineteenth century this subterranean aspect of international relations was less important , and less prominent in the minds of both diplomats and policy-makers , than at any time in the last 300 years . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century this all changed because opiates became much more widely and cheaply available so er babies were dosed with paregoric to stop them crying erm er and subsequently in the twentieth century that stopped and we do other things now . |
| 10 | BRITISH Gas is to cut its charges by 2 per cent from October — the second reduction this year . |
| 11 | This can be upgraded to the Pentium chip when it becomes available in the second quarter this year . |
| 12 | this is the second bite this is it |
| 13 | After attempting last month 's first 8-bars of the 16-bar solo from Linda Ronstadt 's That 'll Be The Day , we 'll crack on with the second half this month . |
| 14 | In the second instance this is achieved by projecting the image of the naive Nizan systematically manipulated by the ruthless bureaucrats of the party machine . |
| 15 | It was the second explosion this week in India 's largest city . |
| 16 | It 's the second incident this week involving British tourists in America . |
| 17 | It was the second incident this week . |
| 18 | During the second year this feeling persisted , but less strongly . |
| 19 | There 's this girl in the second year this black girl and she 's got and her name 's cousin got quite a lot of |
| 20 | For the second approach this could only be answered by asking another , deeper , question : why did geographical change take place at that period at all ? |
| 21 | The long road to Wembley winds its way into the second round this weekend and cup romance takes us to Cheltenham to see the Town ; the Robins getting ready for their big day . |
| 22 | Private referral rates among non-fundholders , however , stayed at the same level in the two phases of the study : 27.8 in phase 1 ( 26.7 to 29.0 ) and 27.8 in phase 2 ( 26.7 to 28.9 ) , although as NHS referrals increased in the second phase this represented a reduction of 2.7% ( 1.2% to 4.2% ; χ 2 =12.89 , p<0.001 ) in the proportion of total referrals . |
| 23 | All have been affected by the Post-glacial rise of sea level , but in the second class this may have been accentuated or nullified by local land movements . |
| 24 | Last month the company warned , for the second time this year , that profits would be disappointing . |
| 25 | Greece embarked on a fortnight of party negotiations following the failure of the two main parties to secure a clear majority in national balloting for the second time this year . |
| 26 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear has been charged by the FA with misconduct for the second time this year . |
| 27 | LONDON TOWERS caught Carlsberg League champions Roland Kingston with their guard down for the second time this season by defeating them 103-97 at the Michael Sobell Centre , Islington , on Sunday night . |
| 28 | For the second time this week , Smith covered remorselessly , forcing Charles to lose up to 10 places on the final beat . |
| 29 | It was the second time this season that the two Gwent sides had finished all-square , and that was the only sign of any lingering bitterness from the earlier match . |
| 30 | That 's the second time this week I 've had boys over my garden wall . |