Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The population of Manchester rose by an astonishing 45 per cent in the 1820s so that by 1831 it had reached 142,000 .
2 She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms .
3 Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , the Motions in the name of Mr Francis Maude relating to Supplementary Estimates 1991-92 and Estimates 1992-93 ( Vote on Account ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or for one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of them .
4 The Court left for supper at eleven o'clock and at midnight the Emperor and the Empress retired , leaving their guests to continue the ball .
5 The ultimatum to the German Government expired at eleven o'clock and at eleven-fifteen Mr Chamberlain was to broadcast to the nation .
6 The ‘ definitive ’ John Barnard Ferrari will make its debut at the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours in June 1993 rather than at the start of 1994 as originally scheduled .
7 These latter values lie close to -70° as shown in table 2 rather than around -100° as found in oligomer crystals and by the modelling we have carried out .
8 According to an estimate by the London-based Economist magazine , the Third World lost $65 billion in 1985 alone because of its commodity price decline .
9 The precedents in this chapter ( with the exception of Precedents 9 and 10 which are not following a court order ) should not attract a charge to stamp duty as a result of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( see Chapter 2 generally as to stamp duty ) .
10 Craters smaller than 10 km diameter have not been included in Figure 8.2 largely because of the uncertainty about the numbers of the corresponding very small bodies that move among the terrestrial planets .
11 John 's gruelling run started at 2 p.m. and along the course he was joined by several of his colleagues from the Metropolitan Police in Enfield .
12 Thus , all in all , a fall in the price of holidays would probably have emerged in 1986 largely because of these changes in underlying economic conditions , and need not have been accompanied by the razzmatazz of a full-blooded price war .
13 The youngest composers of this group were Caspar Othmayr ( 1515–53 ) whose songs began to appear in Ott 's and Forster 's collections from 1544 onward and to whom the Nuremberg publishers Berg ( Montanus ) and Neuber devoted an entire volume , Reutterische und Jegerische Liedlein , in 1549 , and Jobst vom Brandt ( 1517–70 ) .
14 Taxation The company will be liable to pay stamp duty at 0.5 per cent on the purchase price of the shares , but see para 23.2.5 below as to the proposed abolition of stamp duty .
15 It was six o'clock and at Larksoken Power Station , the weekly interdepartmental meeting was drawing to a close .
16 But then , but then the er the whole thing gets knocked for six anyway because of general unpredictableness of , of , of illness .
17 He did , just after 7 p.m. and in a towering rage .
18 ‘ Appeals of murder ’ were abolished in 1819 partly because of this case .
19 5.4 If any of the circumstances specified in clauses 5.1 , 5.2 and 5.3 or if the Tenant fails to comply with [ its ] obligations under clause 6.5 then and in any such case this agreement shall ( save for clauses 3.8 and 5.5 and without prejudice to any pre-existing right of action of either party in respect of any breach by the other of [ its ] obligations under this agreement ) immediately determine and cease to have effect and neither party shall be under any further liability to the other under this agreement
20 But by half time Blaydon were 27–6 ahead and after that they ran riot , with patched up Darlington doing their best to stem the flow .
21 Deddington is indeed a failed town which was founded probably a little before 1190 presumably because of its situation at the junction of what by then were important routes .
22 The cost implications and the Network procedures are set out at 0509 below and in the handbook and should be carefully considered .
23 Attitudes , especially among new senior staff , were often at variance with the council 's stated philosophy towards under fives generally and towards integration in particular .
24 This dramatic dimension has been an important aspect of rockets from the German 1944 V-2s onwards and of satellites from the Soviet 1957 Sputnik onwards .
25 The four statements of Table 11.1 have sufficed to generate Figure 11.2 unambiguously and with no more effort than in the open-loop case .
26 'Really ? ’ observed Ivy ; ‘ one can not imagine anyone doing anything in the afternoon between 2 and 4 , except hoping that tea would be at 4 rather than at 5 . ’
27 In many countries this process had a cumulative impact throughout the 1970s so that by the end of that decade the difference between the price paid to farmers for a crop and the price charged to distributors was highly inequitable .
28 Scum won 1–0 away and as all the other teams right behind drew — i think Scum is 9 ( 8 ? ) points ahead just now — not a good thing …
29 In total , over the six month period , 59 per cent of the referrals commenced during week days and 41 per cent after 5 p.m. or at weekends , two commencing after 11 p.m .
30 The Mulberry Room , ( ) is open from 10.30 a.m. till 5 p.m. and from 7.30 p.m. till 9.30 p.m. , with 25 to 30 places and serving an English/Continental menu in an informal Victorian setting .
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