Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it was back to Mick 's summer stamping ground at Henna Cliff , one which Mick dubiously claims is getting ‘ very popular ’ , and climbed Henna Fall ( grade III/IV and claimed as a three-star 95 foot classic ) . |
| 2 | The AFTA formula had been proposed by Thailand in 1991 and approved at a meeting of Asean Economics Ministers in Malaysia in October [ see p. 38535 ] . |
| 3 | The Confederation of Caucasian Mountain Peoples ( a forum for Caucasus ethnic groups ) met in Tskhinvali on April 26 and called for a reassessment of relations with Russia . |
| 4 | The government expected an overall current-account deficit of at least $1,500 million in 1991 as compared with a deficit of $2,300 million in 1990 . |
| 5 | A spinster in her seventies and employed as a housekeeper at the time , she died in Bishopsgate Street on 17 April 1898 . |
| 6 | He was born in Fife in 1870 and apprenticed as a carpenter but spent most of his life in England after leaving Scotland in 1893 . |
| 7 | The chair of the Campaign for Democracy , Beko Ransome-Kuti , who had called for a campaign of civil disobedience in the New Year if Babangida did not leave office , was arrested on Dec. 31 and detained for a number of days . |
| 8 | The fact that the country has become a major exporter means a boost to the balance of payments of something over £7 billion per year in 1984 as opposed to a debit of some £4 billion ten years ago . |
| 9 | It is no coincidence that 1974 , the year in England and Wales which saw the end of the decline the proportionate use of imprisonment , and the beginning of a major economic crisis during which the numbers of male unemployed more than doubled by 1976 and increased by a factor of 5 by 1984 , also marked the beginning of the end of the welfarist consensus . |
| 10 | The single , which was originally issued in 1981 and deleted after a run of 2,000 , served as a blueprint for the band 's ‘ Uncertain Smile ’ , recorded after they had signed to Epic . |
| 11 | This dilemma was starkly perceived in June 1950 and answered in a way directly contrary to that anticipated so widely in the spring of 1948 . |
| 12 | Phosphocellulose fraction C was dialysed against buffer 3 containing 50 mM ( NH 4 ) 2 SO 4 and applied to a DEAE Sephadex A25 column at a rate of 5mg protein/ml bed volume . |
| 13 | President Sali Berisha visited the USA on June 15-21 and returned with a promise of over US$60,000,000 in aid , in addition to $35,000,000 already promised on April 29 . |
| 14 | Chief Officer Mason left as a Corporal motor-cyclist in 1914 and returned as a Major in 1919 . |
| 15 | The Cathedral of the Assumption ( Dormition ) , now called the Uspensky Cathedral , was built in 1158 but rebuilt after a fire in 1183 . |
| 16 | In addition , Shattil and Cooper ( 1976 ) described increased platelet membrane microviscosity following incubation of platelets with ‘ cholesterol-rich ’ liposomes and Sinha et al ( 1977 ) found an impaired response of the membrane-associated enzyme adenylate cyclase to the stimulating effect of various agents including prostaglandin E 1 as shown by a decrease in production of cyclic AMP . |
| 17 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 18 | Penguin Books has issued an eighth revised edition of Sir John Summerson 's Architecture in Britain 1530–1830 , first published in 1953 and intended as a companion to Ellis Waterhouse 's Painting in Britain 1530–1830 and Margaret Whinney 's Sculpture in Britain which covers the same period . |
| 19 | Mr Reid told Oxford Crown Court , Clarke had finished work in Cheltenham at about noon on December 15 and gone for a drink with his father before going home . |
| 20 | Twelve months ago Jamie Spence trailed Colin Montgomerie by ten with a round to go , fired a 60 and won in a play-off . |
| 21 | The N tower was completed in 1466 but rebuilt after a fire in 1835 ; the s tower is of 1511 . |
| 22 | After mulling over the idea for almost a year , Mr Chambers made the decision to leave Greenfield Human Resources — the agency he joined as a trainee in 1956 and left as a director — and set up on his own . |
| 23 | The OECD reported on March 29 , 1991 , that net disbursements of French official development assistance ( ODA ) to independent countries rose in 1989 as compared with 1988 by 11.9 per cent in real terms to the equivalent of US$5,200 million and increased as a share of gross national product ( GNP ) from 0.50 per cent in 1988 to 0.54 per cent in 1989 . |
| 24 | He is one himself , twice convicted of IRA membership in Dublin in 1973 and 1974 and sentenced to a total of 18 months imprisonment . |
| 25 | It is dated March 11th 1974 and addressed to a Dr E. Serafin , with copies to Mr Tite and the Establishments Division . |
| 26 | One of the reasons why Napoleon wished to retain close supervision of France 's foreign policy was his understanding of the difficulties which would arise once he began to probe the weaknesses of the European system established in 1815 and designed as a check to French ambition . |