Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [coord] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The club has restarted for 1991 and everything seems to be going well . |
| 2 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 3 | The novice chase received an entry of 12 and it looks as though a handful of runners will go to post . |
| 4 | ‘ Business was brisk in the last quarter of 1992 and it continues to be encouraging as we settle into 1993 . ’ |
| 5 | The group has since announced a reduction in staff of one-fifth and it has moved over completely to computer setting and direct input by journalists . |
| 6 | Poliakoff had his first playwrighting success at the age of 19 but he has always been , to put it gently , a more grown-up dramatist than many of the pack of hairy , scary stage writers whose careers coincide with his . |
| 7 | I bite into one and it has the bitter-sweet , almost effervescent zest of sherbet . |
| 8 | you 're given about four or five years to play with one and one makes two , Yes he 's doing |
| 9 | You start with one and it splits into two . |
| 10 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 11 | He married hometown girl Vera in 1971 and she has borne him five children , including twins . |
| 12 | They married in 1945 , but she died in 1986 and he has since married again . |
| 13 | Mr Lilley says his changes would save about £180m in 1995–96 but he tells the Prime Minister that Mr Portillo wants him to go further in reducing spending . |
| 14 | The DSS established Specialist Claims Control Teams in 1980 and it has appointed over 1,000 additional social security investigators . |
| 15 | The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since . |
| 16 | I hope that in the short term more attention will be paid to the availability of the independent arbitration scheme , which was set up in 1985 and which has not often been used , primarily because so few people are aware that it provides a means of getting an independent investigation of alleged grievances against British Rail and of obtaining redress and compensation where they are due . |
| 17 | A second retirement followed in 1985 and it looks as though Lauda is going to stick to his word this time . |
| 18 | Beta Boo¨tis ( 3.5 ) is the nearest fairly bright star to the radiant of the meteor shower seen in early January , known as the Quadrantid shower because this was the region of a constellation , Quadrans ( the Quadrant ) which was proposed by J. E. Bode in 1775 but which has been deleted from modern maps . |
| 19 | Nilsson 's gleaming voice was in its prime in 1960 and she sings Isolde with tireless concentration and an appreciable feeling for the various aspects of the part — frustration and revenge in Act 1 , love 's delirium in Act 2 and the elevation of the Liebestod . |
| 20 | He won a Connacht senior medal with Ballina RFC in 1977–78 and he hopes to play on Ballyshannon RFC 's 1st XV next season . |
| 21 | He died in 1637 but it appears that for years he was something of a figure in the district . |
| 22 | He was born in Belgrade in 1922 and he knows that war is not sweet because he fought with the partisans during World War II . |
| 23 | It started in 1976 and it says something about the timescale over which these sorts of things have to be planned that the first results of any value appeared 16 years later . |
| 24 | But that was in 1909 and she has had so many successors that the device now sticks out like a sore thumb and must be used only with the greatest care and deftness of touch . |
| 25 | He heads up the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau ( phone 071–928 4488 ) , which was set up in 1981 and which provides an independent service for the resolution of disputes between personal insurance policyholders and holders of unit trusts , and companies that belong to the scheme . |
| 26 | Aid trebled to US$649 million in 1987 but it has largely been directed towards relief rather than development . |
| 27 | This project continues the series of volumes which was begun in 1945 and which provides another special political history of postwar Britain . |
| 28 | Christians claim that what happened on Good Friday was decisive for humankind — it was of such a definitive , absolute nature that it split world history in two and it declares that the many strands of human experience ( hope , joy , peace , human fulfilment ) run through the crossroads of the cross . |
| 29 | A major discovery was made at Jabirn in the Timor Sea in 1983 but it has been estimated that similar discoveries on a yearly basis would be necessary if increasing oil imports are not to be required in the future to maintain present levels of consumption . |
| 30 | Comprehensive Mathematics for O-level was first published in 1983 and it has been reprinted twice to date . |