Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recalled to the USSR in 1939 , Vlasov was promoted commander of the 99th Rifle Division . |
| 2 | Lithuania was admitted formally to membership of the IMF on April 29 , as the 157th member country . |
| 3 | The 17th century building of the Hotel Marmorata |
| 4 | The 17th century building is full of interesting mementoes , including the door of the condemned cell of the Calton Jail . |
| 5 | In the saleroom was a crush of the fashionable of Amsterdam , faces straight out of the portraits of Ochterveldt and Rembrandt , echoing the 17th century prosperity which made the Dutch bourgeoisie the richest in Europe . |
| 6 | The city 's architecture captures the memory of the 17th century wealth of a seafaring and predominantly trading nation . |
| 7 | Savary 's statements show that the 17th century bill of lading had begun to function as a ‘ necessary ’ document ; only by showing the document could Savary 's shipper-owner claim lawful possession of the goods he had shipped in his own vessel . |
| 8 | The 17th Century artist Pieter de Hooch 's The Courtyard of a House in Delft was sold for £4.4million . |
| 9 | Also at the Shore , the 17th century King 's Wark is another interesting conservation . |
| 10 | On approaching , from some distance off , the first greeting is given by the elegant shape of a belfry emerging from the surrounding greenery ; it belongs to the 17th century church of Santa Maria graced by the renowned painting of the Virgin by Pier Francesco Fiorentino . |
| 11 | Suicide For Love is adapted by Matsuyo Akimoto from three plays by the 17th century writer Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Ninagawa 's production involves 73 actors , a swirling snow storm and a river on stage — the company , with true Japanese courtesy , provide plastic macs for the first two rows of spectators . |
| 12 | Dei based her final dissertation on Artemesia giving a feminist art perspective on her work and that of the 17th century writer Aphra Behn . |
| 13 | When the World Service broadcast news of the fire which damaged the State Apartments of Hampton Court Palace on Easter Monday 1986 David Esterly was busy at his workbench in up-state New York carving grapes in the manner of his guiding spirit , the 17th century genius woodcarver Grinling Gibbons . |
| 14 | Rego 's work inverts the sense of patriarchal order displayed in the 17th century family portrait . |
| 15 | Allan Ramsay , the 17th century portraitist to the great and glamorous , is currently receiving belated acclaim . |
| 16 | Blandine de Bayser , who sold nine drawings on the first night , had a delicate portrait of a woman attributed to the 17th century painter Franois Quesnel at £10,000 , and a fine Tiepolo of the Holy family from the Orloff collection at £90,000 . |
| 17 | The Solomon Trio recorded their first disc in the acoustically ‘ authentic ’ music room of the 17th century mansion Highnam Court , near Gloucester . |
| 18 | Putting in a plug for his new book , Crashers , he described how it covers the major financial crashes in the world , starting with the 17th century tulip crash in the Netherlands , through to 30s banking crisis and the Deutschmark crash of the same period , to the stock market ‘ silver bubble ’ . |
| 19 | Two imposing items which arrived in Swanage were the prominent Wellington ‘ lock ’ tower at Peveril and the 17th century facade from the Mercers ' Hall in Cheapside which George Burt used for his new Town Hall . |
| 20 | The picturesque town of Delft is often said , by the Dutch , to be ‘ the prettiest place in Holland ’ and it is easy to see why ; with a network of canals criss-crossed by charming bridges , in and around the 17th century town centre with gabled buildings lining narrow streets and passages . |
| 21 | [ W. H. B. Court , The Rise of the Midland Industries 1600–1838 , 1938 ; H. E. Palfrey , ‘ Foleys of Stourbridge ’ , Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society , vol. xxi , 1944 ; H. R. Schubert , History of the British Iron and Steel Industry from c.450 B.C. to A.D. 1775 , 1957 ; Treadway Nash , Collections for the History of Worcestershire , 2nd edn. , vol. ii , 1799 ; John Roper , Dudley : the 17th Century Town , 1965 . ] |
| 22 | Mash tuns or Kieves ( a Dublin term possibly inherited from the 17th century Huguenot brewers ) are essentially great big strainers or filtering vessels where the mash is allowed to ‘ stand-in ’ , in much the same way as a pot of tea is allowed to ‘ draw ’ . |
| 23 | Clearly established as the European success of the year after a triumphant progress from Cannes to the continental box office , CYRANO DE BERGERAC stars Gerard Depardieu in characteristic form as the 17th century soldier-poet , a stoic bearer of tragi-comic disfigurement , secretly in love with his cousin Roxanne ( Anne Brochet ) . |
| 24 | Moreover , the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve Brigade of British , Australian and New Zealand troops was already stationed at Malacca in support of SEATO , and the 17th Gurkha Division was responsible for security in Hong Kong , Malaya , North Borneo and Singapore . |
| 25 | Farr , who invariably sails in the 17th man jump-seat position , has told John Clinton , the New Zealand sail designer , to re-assess the yacht 's sail inventory . |
| 26 | To some boxing purists , Mr Bowe 's performance was only faintly more ridiculous than the addition of strawweight ( or mini-flyweight ) as the 17th weight division in the late 1980s . |
| 27 | October 2 : 50th anniversary of the formation of the 15th Air Force , featuring the P-40 , P-47 and P-51 . |
| 28 | The 15th century thimble |
| 29 | Other units based briefly on the airfield were the 15th Bombardment Squadron , 305th Bombardment Group and the 96th Bombardment Group . |
| 30 | The competition between three teams — local sportsmen , the 15th Parachute Brigade and RAF Leuchars took place in the Kingdom of Fife and raised money for the RAF Benevolent Fund and The Airborne Initiative Appeal . |