Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This is subject to the minor exceptions in subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , and to adaptations when a private company has validly elected under section 252 to dispense with laying of accounts before general meetings or when shareholders of listed companies have elected under section 251 to receive summary financial statements instead .
2 Meanwhile 1985 ended with unrest among students from the Uighur ethnic minority .
3 In 1985 work on behalf of refugees took its place in the statute of Amnesty .
4 Indeed , Rous claimed that he had petitioned Parliament in 1459 asking for legislation on enclosures , and although no such petition is preserved , there is one from as early as 1414 from the village of Chesterton in Cambridgeshire referring to depopulation there ( 19 , pp.276–7 ; 58 , pp.81–2 , 102–3 , 148 ) .
5 It is evident that although studies up until the 1970s looked at youth in terms of class divisions , it is now also important to bring in unemployment , gender and race as further dimensions of disadvantage — dimensions which affect young people in particular ways .
6 The bi-monthly scholarly journal , founded in Los Angeles in 1973 , suspended publication in 1978 owing to lack of funds .
7 In September the television station Network Ten went into receivership with debts of A$445,000,000 , while the largest network , Nine , owned by Alan Bond , was bought by Kerry Packer , the head of Consolidated Press Holdings .
8 Following upon a letter written to Churchill by four senior cryptanalysts in Huts 6 and 8 complaining about lack of resources , the Prime Minister had ordered that on ‘ extreme priority ’ Bletchley should have all that it needed .
9 Order 25 , r 8 applies to suspension of warrants .
10 8.20 Put on water for peas
11 Figure 7.2 Change in number of households : observed and standardized , England and Wales , 1961–81
12 The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources .
13 Of these , 185 remained in employment in pensions offices and sales branches , 120 were lost through natural wastage and 90 opted for redundancy .
14 The prescribing unit for the two study practices was calculated to be 3.3 based on cost for patients over 65 years ( men 4.1 , women 2.8 ) and 3.9 for items ( men 4.7 and women 3.3 ) .
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