Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hall appeared with a letter from the Duke , who perhaps not unexpectedly said that he had some ‘ pressing business in Scotland ’ and , therefore , regretfully had to resign his duties , 2 although Burn later said that this was due to the death of the Duke 's uncle . |
| 2 | Do n't Sing was the first single to chart , though it was n't until When Love Breaks Down was released for the second time in 1985 that things really started to happen . |
| 3 | Wrexham 's Kingsley Evans was third on 151 and Wrexham also won the team championship . |
| 4 | There has been wide disagreement among historians concerning the chronology of population recovery , some suggesting that it started before the end of the fourteenth century , others favouring dates around 1430 and others again preferring the early sixteenth century ( 59 ; 75 , p.15 ; 99 , p.269 ) . |
| 5 | This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis . |
| 6 | Gooch was chief hero with 92 and Lamb again showed what a good one-day player he is , but 22 of the total of 269 were wides that West Indies could ill afford . |
| 7 | 1323–1338 and cases there cited . |
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| 9 | He added if independent nurseries were included in the statistics more than half of three and four-year-olds now attended school , a figure only bettered in Europe by France and Belgium . |
| 10 | There were a number of false starts for North Shields after 1948 but things really began in 1961 . |
| 11 | There were about 350,000 marriages last year and 174,000 divorces compared with 398,000 and 156,000 respectively in 1981 and remarriages now accounted for 36 per cent of all marriages . |
| 12 | As Elector of Hanover George I had been at war with Charles XII of Sweden , one of the outstanding soldiers of his time , since October 1715 and England now became involved due to the frequent presence of an English fleet in the Baltic , which the Swedes were inclined to regard , as the English did the Channel , as a private sea of their own . |
| 13 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 14 | Parliament drew Nehemiah into naval service in 1650 and John soon followed . |
| 15 | John Edwards died in the 1780s but James quickly moved the firm into a leading position , issuing a series of elegant catalogues from his fashionable shop . |
| 16 | During 1642 the quarrel between King Charles I and parliament rapidly deteriorated into the Civil War . |
| 17 | This measure was introduced in 1978 and protection only applies therefore from this date . |
| 18 | An arson attack gutted the Bucharest offices of the Hungarian state airline ( Malev ) on March 25 as crowds outside protested that the Hungarian population was planning to secede from Romania . |
| 19 | The Trinity has remained the kingpin of Greek and Russian spirituality but in the West it has tended to retreat to the sidelines and many find it an impossible concept : God is seen as One and Jesus often becomes a sort of divine friend in a vision which robs the Christian mystery of much of its transcendent power . |
| 20 | Gone are the days when everyone who was anyone had one and Keith sometimes doubts he 's in the right business . |
| 21 | The Thai , who captured the World Matchplay title in December , stayed alive with decisive breaks of 38 and 36 in frame 13 but Hendry then prevailed in the 14th . |
| 22 | The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units . |
| 23 | It needs no chest strap but will be provided with one as buyers apparently expect it . |
| 24 | He was in magnificent form in Mexico in 1970 as England unsuccessfully defended the World Cup — despite the scandalous off-the-field distraction of being falsely accused of stealing a gold bracelet from a jewellery store . |
| 25 | But , if the interception angle is more than 40 or 50° then go straight to the beacon . |
| 26 | • A luxury four or six-berth fully equipped diesel-engined cabin cruiser for 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , or 6 anglers from CARRICK CRAFT . |
| 27 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
| 28 | From week four until death both EGF and TGF α stimulated tumour growth at a significantly greater rate than that in the control group ( Figure ) . |
| 29 | It would help dispel unhappy memories for Whiteside who made the last of his 38 Northern Ireland appearances in a 3–0 Dublin defeat in 1989 before injury cruelly ended his career at just 26 . |
| 30 | There 's war between Russia and Turkey in er eighteen er thirty when Russia militarily intervenes in the Turkish revolt . |