Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers in ‘ difficult ’ schools received an extra 75 annually ( as against 120 recommended by Plowden ) . |
| 2 | For latent damage , the three year period commences on the " date of knowledge " of the plaintiff ( s14(1) ( A ) of the Limitation Act 1980 inserted by CPA 1987 , Sched 1 ) . |
| 3 | Class B was won by Tranmere contestant Jim Gavin aboard Salamandra but it was a close call with Catch 32 owned by Jim Myerscough from Blundellsands . |
| 4 | In all , eight out of the eleven listed by Theophrastus had experienced long use by gem-cutters . |
| 5 | So it is not surprising to find the original paragraph 30 deleted by amendment and the substitution of new paragraphs 30 and 31 in its place . |
| 6 | The UN Security Council , convened at the request of France on Sept. 25 , adopted Resolution 713 sponsored by Belgium , France and the UK calling for a complete arms embargo on Yugoslavia and the immediate cessation of hostilities and requesting the Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , to assist with mediation . |
| 7 | France is the best-known example of this but there are plenty of others ; the riots in Tuscany in 1790 provoked by measures of this kind are a good example . |
| 8 | Commenting on its figures ( see page seven ) , Datapoint Corp says that the decline in revenue as of January 30 was down mainly to unfavourable foreign currency translations and an interruption of the French subsidiary 's operations following a fire in its leased warehouse — but there are some bulls of the shares around these days : analyst Howard Harlow of New York 's Whale Securities sees a major turnaround and a doubling in value of the shares over the next 12 months ; he sees earnings of $0.60 a share in 1993 followed by $1.20 a share in 1994 . |
| 9 | According to a decree of July 12 signed by Adil Carcani , Chairman of the Council of Ministers , some free enterprise was to be permitted in the services and handicrafts sector . |
| 10 | This type of link may be characterized by the stretch of apolar residues in the N-terminal β- strand A and a hydrogen bond network in domain 2 mediated by Ser-X-Pro at the start of β- strand A combined with Asn 161 and Ser 164 at the end of β- strand F and start of G ( residues in red ) . |
| 11 | Local abolition committees spread in 1788 prompted by Clarkson 's visits and perhaps by the Manchester committee 's circular letter to other towns . |
| 12 | The Minister for Public Works in the outgoing government , Giovanni Prandini , a Christian Democrat , was on June 12 warned by Rome magistrates that he was under investigation in connection with the allocation of public funds for the construction of a motorway in the Puglian province of Táranto . |
| 13 | Another fine eight-part composition , the motet ‘ Super flumina Babylonis ’ , was in 1583 sent by de Monte to William Byrd whom he must have met thirty years earlier during his visit to England as a member of Philip II 's chapel . |
| 14 | Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov gave warnings of impending economic collapse , including a prediction of a sharply reduced grain harvest , when he addressed a conference on July 2 attended by representatives from all 15 union republican governments and by President Gorbachev . |
| 15 | Although Clinton now appeared certain to win the nomination — he had amassed 947 delegates compared with the 129 won by Brown — many senior Democrats believed that his candidacy could be beset , and possibly destroyed , by further personal scandals . |
| 16 | Median gastric mucosal synthesis of PGE 2 stimulated by vortex mixing was 16.2 ( 8.0–40.3 ) pg/mg ( n=65 ) in NSAID users and 51.4 ( 22.3–75.0 ) pg/mg ( n=23 ) in non-users ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 17 | Bob Martinez , a former Governor of Florida who had been defeated in the gubernatorial elections [ see above ] , was on Nov. 30 nominated by Bush as Bennett 's successor . |
| 18 | Earlier in the month , a truce on April 12 brokered by EC envoy José Cutilheiro had effectively been ignored . |
| 19 | Cowan scored the equaliser a minute before half time to bring his total for the season to 44 , beating the club record of 43 held by Martin Malone since 1973–74 . |
| 20 | No 3227 Set by George Cowley Can we please have imaginary entries for the ‘ This England ’ column — stories that you think ought to have happened , but somehow have n't yet . |
| 21 | Pre-tax profits in 1991 rose by 34pc to £1.5m at the society and assets growth , a key indicator of a society 's economic wellbeing advanced by 11.49pc to £225m . |
| 22 | Those 11 tries , by the way , surpassed the 10 scored by South Africa when they won 38–0 in Dublin in 1912 . |
| 23 | Chanel number 10 photographed by Eddie Monsoon/Mitzi Lorenz . |
| 24 | In 1256 Henry III granted by charter to the burgesses of Scarborough that ‘ no forester may enter the borough to make attachment for trespasses within the Forest [ of Scalby ] ’ and in 1348 Edward III made a similar concession to the burgesses of Penrith for Inglewood Forest . |
| 25 | The leader of the UNC , Basdeo Panday , who condemned the support given by the PNM for the government 's extension of the state of emergency was on Sept. 10 confirmed by President Noor Hassanali as the official Leader of the Opposition , a post he had held between 1976 and 1986 , as leader of the United Labour Front ( ULF ) , the then leading opposition party . |
| 26 | Reporters in Vilnius noted meanwhile that the Lithuanian population remained calm and apparently unperturbed by what were widely regarded as Soviet provocations : a pro-independence rally on April 7 organized by Sajudis drew a crowd of up to 300,000 people . |
| 27 | A football special from Liverpool to Wadsley Bridge skirts the Longdendale reservoirs above Torside in 1979 hauled by class 40 No. 40027 . |
| 28 | The volumes are not especially easy to use , however , and more detailed and accessible information is contained in two works published in 1950 and 1967 by the Society of Antiquaries of London : A Catalogue of English Medieval Rolls of Arms by Sir Anthony Wagner , and Rolls of Arms — Henry III edited by T.D . |
| 29 | The spacecraft Mariner 10 flew by Mercury in 1974 and 1975 . |
| 30 | In 1974 , just before the spacecraft Mariner 10 flew by Mercury , the best Earth-based optical resolution of the surface was about 300 km . |