Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reaction was stopped by adding 80 µl 2 M perchloric acid followed by an incubation at 37°C for 30 minutes . |
| 2 | Well , they have a fight erm they very rarely attack us , but they very frequently fight amongst themselves , and it 's usually over something that 's happened previously , but a few stupid words can just spark something that could be ignored if everything else was all right , but it an insult on top of hundreds of insults will just tip them over . |
| 3 | During the battle between the two , which began an hour before sunset on 24 April 1778 off Kilroot Point near Carrickfergus , Jones kept his distance , disabling his opponent by cannon fire and pistol shots aimed at the crew until , resistance having ceased , a boarding party was sent across , to find the decks running with blood and rum — a keg , brought out prematurely to celebrate the expected victory , had been breached by a cannon ball — and the Drake was taken in tow . |
| 4 | Michael Martin , the Felsted captain , and William Cooper shared in a second wicket partnership of 239 , both scoring centuries , before Martin declared half an hour after lunch at 246 for one . |
| 5 | It had an index in excess of 20,000 , one of the highest What Personal Computer has on record . |
| 6 | The Prince of Wales established an award for innovation in 1985 and his working group on innovation was set up after a conference at Highgrove last year . |
| 7 | Section 37 of the Solicitors Act 1843 ( 6 & 7 Vict. c. 73 ) provided that no solicitor could commence an action for fees until one month after he delivered to his client a bill of fees . |
| 8 | A graduate of Oxford University , he joined P&O in 1974 , working in Tokyo , Sydney and New York as well as in the UK , before completing an MBA at Fountainebleau in 1988 . |
| 9 | Below is an extract of conversation between two policemen who are telling a third about a cot death the two of them had recently attended . |
| 10 | An economics graduate , he had become an adviser to Solidarity in 1980 , and had started his own timber haulage company after losing his job in industrial training following the 1981 imposition of martial law . |
| 11 | When he was an undergraduate at Christchurch in nineteen seventy-five , he and a friend , Tim Sanderson , decided to put up the biggest folly in the world in Christchurch meadow : |
| 12 | I learnt about magic bullets as an undergraduate in Australia in 1984 and I am impressed to think that I am in the company of their pioneer . |
| 13 | The Pilkington Committee recommended a BBC monopoly , and in 1966 the government authorized an experiment on VHF with eight stations . |
| 14 | Most significant of all there is an interruption in registration in 1206 when things were not progressing well for Innocent . |
| 15 | The incident was made all the more galling by the fact that neither climber had broken an axe of crampon in 27 years of combined mountaineering experience ! |
| 16 | The large drain was cut following an Act of Enclosure in 1791 . |
| 17 | The rebellion was crushed by the British Government , which then passed an Act of Union in 1801 , abolishing the Dublin parliament and integrating Ireland with the UK . |
| 18 | And during the years when Pound was most under Yeats 's influence , Pound too embraced this ideal — as when in 1912 he went with Yeats and some others to pay an act of homage to one of the last English representatives of the type , the Sussex squire Wilfred Scawen Blunt : |
| 19 | But before she died , Elizabeth I signed an Act of Parliament in 1600 ‘ for the recovering of many hundred thousand Acres of marshes ’ . |
| 20 | Pressure groups , political organisations and other extra-Parliamentary activists vociferously expressed enough anxiety over the potential demographic transformation of British cities and the destruction of British culture to make it an issue within Parliament : the political argument culminated in the Commonwealth Immigrants Bill becoming an Act of Parliament in 1962 . |
| 21 | His Isle of Purbeck Railway succeeded in getting an Act of Parliament in 1863 but came to nothing in face of the local hostility and opposition from landowners . |
| 22 | An Act of Parliament in 1990 changed the way community care is to be organised in Britain , placing the responsibility on local authorities to take the lead in planning and developing community care services in their area , in partnership with other organisations and consumers . |
| 23 | In order for punishment not to be , in every instance , an act of violence of one or of many against a private citizen , it must be essentially public , prompt , necessary , the least possible in the given circumstances , proportionate to the crimes , dictated by the laws ( p. 99 ) . |
| 24 | As late as February 1949 there was a brief panic in London when a US Senate debate suggested that the all-important article 5 ( which defined the obligations of members in the event of an act of aggression against one of their number ) might be diluted . |
| 25 | A good , old-fashioned keep-fit session seems much healthier than Hindu-inspired life-force exercises which were originally designed as an act of worship to thousands of eastern gods . |
| 26 | The weapon has a strength of 4 , a range of 40″ and an armour save modifier of -2 instead of the usual -1 because of the power of gunpowder weapons . |
| 27 | An evening of Sevillana by one of Spain 's leading groups of singers and dancers . |
| 28 | Untag has 2,800 officials — including 1,100 policemen — scattered throughout Namibia to keep an eye on proceedings at 358 polling booths . |
| 29 | There was an article on Frank in one of the papers in the last few days , I 'll see if I can dig it out . |
| 30 | In an article in Figaro in 1978 Jean-Pierre Dujardin collected together the best-researched estimates of lives lost under communism : it was based on studies such as Robert Conquest 's classic analysis of Stalin 's purges The Great Terror , Professor Kuganov 's seminal study of liquidations based on a detailed demographic survey of Russia 's population between 1939 and 1959 and the detailed work done by Professor Richard Walker in a report commissioned by the U S Senate and published in 1971 . |