Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [conj] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1953 he became Assistant Professor and in 1957 Professor of Library Science at Simmons College in Boston , where he remained until 1965 . |
| 2 | In 1846 he entered the engineers ' department of the River Clyde Improvement Trust , shortly afterwards becoming chief assistant and in 1852 acting engineer to the Trust for a short period on the death of David Bremner [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | He was so moved by the sufferings of the wounded at the battle of Solferino ( the Lombard village where the French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians in June 1859 ) that he published a book urging the formation of permanent voluntary aid societies to succour the wounded in time of war , and this so caught international imagination that in 1863 , sixteen European nations met at a conference in Geneva to launch the plan . |
| 4 | ‘ Holidays are now becoming essential purchases and in 1992 summer bookings were 12 per cent up on last year . |
| 5 | He had sat far back and to one side but the congregation was small for the early morning service and he had seen everything clearly . |
| 6 | The 14th Dalai Lama , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , fled to India , where he was granted political asylum and in 1964 China declared him to be a traitor . |
| 7 | Hence in late nineteenth-century France the aged were already a more prominent group , almost twice the proportion in England at the same time : indeed , there were proportionally somewhat fewer old in booming Victorian England than in 1700 . |
| 8 | He started by writing occasional articles but in 1939 he wrote The State of Music , a trenchant and provocative assessment of the machinery of the musical profession at the time . |
| 9 | Dr Roger Harrison , director of product development for Eli Lilly 's subsidiary Dista Ltd in the UK , told New Scientist that after five years of experience scaling up Lilly 's genetically engineered insulin ‘ we have not perceived any allergic reaction in the chemical processing or packaging units . ’ |
| 10 | Excavations have uncovered positive proof that between 10,000 and 25,000 years ago it was a wild beast 's den with bones of extinct animals having been found in the stalagmites on the cave floor . |
| 11 | The Act of Parliament received Royal Assent and from I January 1948 , the London Passenger Transport Board became the London Transport Executive as one of the integral parts of the British Transport Commission . |
| 12 | Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet . |
| 13 | He soon showed academic promise and in 1858 , at the age of fourteen , went to the famous boarding school of Pforta , not to far from Naumburg , where he excelled in most subjects , the chief exceptions being art and mathematics . |
| 14 | In 1932 he became Prime Minister and in 1933 Dictator , a situation which continued until his retirement due to a massive stroke in 1968 . |
| 15 | Once free of the knotted tentacles of the eastern suburbs , Dalgliesh made good time and by three he was driving through Lydsett village . |
| 16 | limited ( third party ) ( 1991 ) policy did not provide indemnity of survey carried out by nominated person not holding professional qualifications or with 5 years experience and supervised by professionally qualified person . |
| 17 | The other linguists all retained lasting interest in their subject without building careers on it : Lorna Bottomley joined the temporary Civil Service ( Ministry of Education ) after the war , enjoyed educational administration and in 1947 moved to become Assistant Secretary at the Westminster Medical School where she remained contentedly until retirement in 1982 . |
| 18 | In 1883 he became consulting engineer and in 1885 a director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , where he was responsible for the design and construction of their Horwich ( Bolton ) locomotive works and was chairman of the rolling-stock and locomotive workshop committees . |
| 19 | And at the very end of the decade , after this chapter had been written , Provincial announced that such was the cost of retaining ageing DMUs that in 1990 some services would be temporarily reduced until more Sprinters come on stream . |
| 20 | He failed to interest American industrialists and in 1886 came to England , thereafter the centre of his working life . |
| 21 | He had been so moved by reading Political Justice that in 1794 he had decided to found a Godwinian state in a remote part of America . |
| 22 | In the wake of Hillier 's retirement in 1882 , he was appointed assistant inspector-general and in 1884 he became one of the country 's four new divisional magistrates , with his headquarters in Athlone . |
| 23 | In the same winter , six walkers were killed in a series of accidents , most involving simple slips but including one case of hypothermia . |
| 24 | As the officer corps became more professionalized , it became more determined that the army should not be used again to quell civilian protest as in 1905–6 . |
| 25 | The first meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held on 2 January 1818 with eight founder members present , but it made slow progress until in 1820 Telford , who never joined the Smeatonians , agreed to become the first president . |
| 26 | From then on it became big game and for fifty years the only ones to leave China were dead . |
| 27 | The town imported raw jute and from 1832 mixed it with whale oil to produce a material capable of being woven into coarse fabrics such as hessian and sailcloth . |
| 28 | Both men were making angry gestures and at one point Fernand brandished the crowbar under Gebrec 's nose before flinging it to the ground in a melodramatic gesture of apparent capitulation . |
| 29 | The questionnaire requested a maximum of 27 replies under the following five major headings : personal details move to Gatwick travel housing other information and with three of the replies calling for explanations . |
| 30 | On occasions I looked at the casualty cards myself and identified potential clients that for one reason or another were not referred to me . |