Example sentences of "[num] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modernisation of the station took place , and the ‘ Master Cutler ’ , introduced in 1948 became a Pullman train in 1958 , but running via Retford to Kings Cross . |
| 2 | The Consumer Concerns survey carried out by the National Consumer Council ( NCC ) in 1979–80 revealed a quarter of all respondents encountering problems walking in the previous year , over half of which were considered serious . |
| 3 | Moreover , it is a criminal offence under s47(1) Financial Services Act 1986 to induce a person to buy or sell shares by a fraudulent statement or the concealment of material facts . |
| 4 | The warriors of Narok District were put to work in 1935 building a road , the work to count in lieu of payment of taxes . |
| 5 | A suitable yardstick of good practice has been provided by the OECD , which in its contribution to Road Safety Year in the European Community in 1986 produced a synthesis of road safety research , with aims that included ‘ identifying those safety measures that should be reconsidered in national and international road safety policy formulation . ’ |
| 6 | ( 10 ) To take action under s63(3) of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 to enforce a residence order ( s14 ) . |
| 7 | His nine-page catalogue from 1838 contains a wealth of information for the funerary historian , listing 111 coffins of thirty differing types , twenty sizes of shroud ( each available in four different qualities of material ) , fifteen types of ruffling , winding-sheets , mattresses , coffin furniture and palls . |
| 8 | The Offences against the Person Act 1861 contains a number of crimes concerned with the administration of noxious or toxic substances . |
| 9 | First , the Agriculture Act 1986 places a duty on the Minister of Agriculture to : |
| 10 | About two-thirds provide a generalist advice service , and about one third , general assistance to a specific group of users , ( e.g. women , the elderly , ethnic minority communities ) . |
| 11 | However , the widening of the margin of fluctuation either side of par to 2¼ per cent at the Smithsonian Conference in December 1971 posed a threat to EC plans for limited exchange rate fluctuations amongst member currencies . |
| 12 | At birth , the heart races along at 140 beats a minute , but by the time we reach adulthood the rate has dropped to 70 beats a minute . |
| 13 | Remarkably , more than seven years later he ran laps of 58½ , 63½ , 65¾ , and 66 seconds at Lillie Bridge , London , on 23 August 1886 to establish a world 's best time of 4 minutes 12¾ seconds that was unbeaten anywhere for the next twenty-eight seasons and was unbeaten by a Briton for forty-nine years , until Sydney Wooderson returned 4 minutes 12.7 seconds , running in Glasgow on 3 August 1935 . |
| 14 | Indeed , at no election since 1935 has a party obtained more than 50% of the votes cast , yet at only one election since that time has a government been returned without a majority of seats . |
| 15 | Japan on June 27-30 proposed a package of rules on origin , including non-discriminatory treatment , predictability , and transparency of procedure , while the EC suggested that such matters should be dealt with in the Customs Co-operation Council ( CCC ) . |
| 16 | Table 6.2 contains a list of many of these factors . |
| 17 | Figure 2.3 illustrates a production flow in the TV industry with just three stages , but these would have to be extended many times to include all the firms involved . |
| 18 | He was educated at Chester Grammar School and in 1872 became a pupil of Joseph Armstrong , locomotive superintendent of the Great Western . |
| 19 | October by the French , at Agincourt , with fearful loss of life to the French troops , and Henry V became a legend . |
| 20 | The protracted budgetary negotiations involving the administration and a group of Republican and Democrat legislators on Sept. 30 produced a draft agreement for fiscal 1991 which aimed at reducing the budget deficit by $500,000 million over a five-year period . |
| 21 | He then moved to London , and at the age of twenty-one got a job as attendant and bowler at the White Conduit Club in Islington . |
| 22 | Powell began work in the library of Brasenose College in 1893 , and in 1895 became a boy helper at the Bodleian Library under E. W. B. Nicholson [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | Here German numerical superiority of 2:1 made a hole in the line that could be only inadequately plugged . |
| 24 | An Interior Ministry communiqué cited in broadcasts on Dec. 2 announced a curfew from Dec. 5 in Algiers and in the provinces of Tipaza , Boumerda , Blida , Medea and Bouira between 10.30 p.m. and 5 a.m , in a further crackdown on Islamic militants [ see p. 39215 ] . |
| 25 | Table 2 offers a comparison of Grampian exports with the equivalent totals for Scotland as a whole . |
| 26 | As regards the nature of the referrals dealt with , Table 2 offers a breakdown of the information received at the point of referral and recorded on the Society 's initial referral form . |
| 27 | A body corporate is defined in s 740 , CA 1985 to include a company incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain . |
| 28 | 2 Make a hay infusion ( Chapter 5 ) and leave it uncovered on a shady window-sill for several weeks , topping it up with cooled , boiled water when necessary . |
| 29 | 2 Make a custard by heating the milk and caster sugar in a small pan until it is almost boiling . |
| 30 | 2 Make a list of those media to which the picture will be relevant , showing black and white or colour requirements . |