Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [be] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks were scheduled to open on Jan. 7 but were delayed by the late arrival of the Arab teams in protest at the issuing of deportation orders on Jan. 2 against 12 Palestinian activists from the Israeli occupied territories [ see p. 38741 ] . |
| 2 | Beginning in 1923 , when Vita and her husband ( Sir ) Harold Nicolson [ q.v. ] came to stay at the Villa Medici , the affair lasted into 1925 and was followed by the Scotts ' divorce in 1927 . |
| 3 | After war work in France she moved to Oxford in 1920 and was inspired by the teaching of R. R. Marett [ q.v. ] to a distinction in her Oxford diploma in anthropology before returning to France with a Mary Ewart scholarship ( 1922–3 ) and introductions to leading archaeologists . |
| 4 | A Latin inscription on the ceiling high above the chancel tells how this church was built by Sir Christopher in 1682 , was destroyed by aerial bombardment in 1941 and was restored by the RAF in 1958 . |
| 5 | The championships ended in 1984 and were replaced by the new Formula 3000 Championship . |
| 6 | Atkinson entered the Royal Navy in 1908 and was recommended by the medical director-general to join as surgeon and helminthologist the 1910 expedition to Antarctica led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | The dispute boiled up when the polytechnic incurred a substantial deficit in 1981 and was accused by the authority of lack of accountability and inadequate financial management . |
| 8 | The European Convention on Human Rights was signed at Rome in 1950 and was ratified by the United Kingdom in 1951 . |
| 9 | She began practising midwifery in London around 1610 and was licensed by the bishop of London before 1634 . |
| 10 | These are mainly provided under the Disabled Persons ( Employment ) Acts of 1944 and 1958 and are run by the Department of Employment . |
| 11 | The British and Foreign Temperance Society was formed in 1830 and was dominated by the Church of England . |
| 12 | It dates back to 1795 and was issued by the King 's Theatre in London 's Haymarket , and was designed as a throw-away item for theatre-goers rich enough to book a box for the season at the kingly sum of 2,500 guineas . |
| 13 | Bankers Books Bookshop , which opened in 1987 and is owned by the Chartered Institute of Bankers , has just published its new catalogue , listing all books stocked by the shop . |
| 14 | The modern notion of a distinctive regional identity dates from the 1930s and was reinforced by the involvement of significant local elites in regional planning , etc. , after 1945 ( see Chapman , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | Stalin died in March 1953 and was succeeded by the moderate Malenkov , who was to be ousted by the raucous Khrushchev in February 1955 . |
| 16 | The only major Ottoman initiatives against the Karamanids in the years immediately before 822/1419 that are reported by the Turkish sources are two campaigns , apparently in successive years , in each of which the Ottomans defeated Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey and attacked Konya . |
| 17 | Having been educated mainly at home , she attended Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1881 to 1882 and was encouraged by the headmistress , Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , to become a writer . |
| 18 | The Association of Community Health Councils formally asked for CHC involvement in medical audit in 1989 and were refused by the DOH on the grounds that it was a professional exercise ( Pollitt 1992 ) . |
| 19 | The following day British Satellite Broadcasting ( BSB — launched in April 1990 ) merged with its chief rival , Sky Television , which had been formed in February 1989 and was owned by the media magnate Rupert Murdoch , both companies having sustained substantial operating losses over the year . |
| 20 | Maldoom 's version was first performed at the Theater Manufaktur , Berlin in August 1989 and was acclaimed by the German critics as ‘ one of the most significant to date ’ . |
| 21 | Thus the final calculation of the value of what was actually produced within the UK economy in 1987 is £351,413 million and is given by the relation . |
| 22 | This attitude changed by the 1950s and was emphasized by the development of cybernetics , information theory and operations research . |
| 23 | The first Love Feast was held in Portadown in 1791 and was conducted by the Reverend Samuel Steele in the house of Thomas Bunting who had joined the Society the previous year . |
| 24 | The regional conference was held in Dar es Salaam , the capital of Tanzania , on Feb. 19 and was attended by the Presidents of Rwanda , Uganda , Zaïre , Burundi , Kenya and Tanzania . |
| 25 | She arrived off the head at around 1905 and was asked by the coastguard to search the area off Coldingham Bay , in a southerly direction . |
| 26 | A model for achieving a smoke free generation in Europe was proposed at the first European conference on tobacco in 1988 and was supported by the World Health Organisation and British Medical Association . |
| 27 | It would be worth no less than $A100 000 and be administered by the Australian Academy of Sciences . |
| 28 | A If the Bill is presented to the House of Commons in November , it will pass through the committee stage until February 1944 and be considered by the House of Lords by next May . |
| 29 | Mr Gray said he first took up his complaint about missing mail in December 1990 and was told by the post office in Darlington that it would be given urgent attention . |
| 30 | Similar measures were passed in 1985 and 1988 but were vetoed by the then President Ronald Reagan . |