Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tilden became senior science master at Clifton College , Bristol , in 1872 and was elected to the chair of chemistry at the newly founded Mason College in Birmingham ( later the University of Birmingham ) eight years later . |
| 2 | Peter ( Val 's brother ) lives in a town on the east coast of the island called Nanaimo , which has a population of about 50,000 and is connected to Vancouver ( which lies almost opposite ) by a regular ferry service . |
| 3 | Passenger services began in 1879 and were extended to Barnton in 1894 . |
| 4 | Thus , commentators have suggested that the Conservative Party came into power in 1979 and was committed to reducing the size of the public sector . |
| 5 | On 14 October 1991 Mr. Butler had been found guilty of contempt of court by breaching the injunction granted on 12 September 1991 and was sentenced to four weeks in prison , the sentence being suspended for six months . |
| 6 | It runs both Solaris 1.1 and 2.1 and is expected to be the first of a family of products . |
| 7 | It runs both Solaris 1.1 and 2.1 and is expected to be the first of a family of products . |
| 8 | After winning scholarships at Winchester and at Balliol College , Oxford , he took a first class in literae humaniores in 1924 and was elected to a fellowship of All Souls which he held till 1945 . |
| 9 | The sundial on a cottage in North End was made in the 1840s and is said to be the largest in England with its twelve ft diameter . |
| 10 | He graduated BA from University College London in 1840 , then studied law intermittently throughout the 1840s and was called to the bar in 1851 . |
| 11 | All 18 appeared before magistrates in Kampala on May 7 and were referred to the High Court . |
| 12 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 13 | He had been a non-executive director since September 1986 and was appointed to the LVMH Board of Directors in January 1989 . |
| 14 | And so my tour in Mespot came to an end , I gained my " wings " on 13 June 1935 and was promoted to sergeant . |
| 15 | Stone was arrested on a charge of high treason on 3 May 1794 and was taken to the Tower of London . |
| 16 | Born into a miner 's family in Gallarta in the Basque region in 1895 , she was a founder member of the Spanish Communist Party ( Partido Comunista de España — PCE ) in 1920 and was elected to the Cortes in 1936 , representing Asturias . |
| 17 | The UK is offering to cut emissions by 71 per cent from the base year of 1980 by 2005 and is committed to reaching 60 per cent by 2000 . |
| 18 | A herdbook was first published in 1890 ; a joint breed society for the Kerry and related Dexter was formed in 1917 and was restricted to the Kerry alone in 1919 . |
| 19 | Thomas Fuller Bacon was born in Stamford in 1824 and was considered to be stubborn , selfish and unsociable as a child . |
| 20 | A new business language school at Newcastle University opens on June 18 and is tailored to the needs of local firms . |
| 21 | The chemical structure of mescaline was established in 1918 and was found to be closely related to that of adrenaline , which leads to some interesting speculations . |
| 22 | Most of these trade unions are of recent creation , founded in the mid or late 1970s and are affiliated to federations organized by the mass political organizations . |
| 23 | Bulmer ( 1987 ) observes that the first official use of the term was in 1957 and was related to the field of mental illness . |
| 24 | Mutalibov , President of Azerbaijan from May 1990 , resigned in March 1992 but was returned to office briefly in May after his successor Yagub Mamedov was held responsible for Azeri defeats in the disputed Armenian enclave of Nagorny-Karahakh . |
| 25 | It collapsed in 1902 but was rebuilt to the same design . |
| 26 | This dates from 1729 and was presented to the cathedral by Pope Benedict XIII . |
| 27 | First AS.6 ( WB505 ) made its initial flight on March 23 , 1949 and was delivered to the FAA on May 26 , 1950 . |
| 28 | Watkinson was struck during his innings of 27 and was sent to hospital for a precautionary X-ray Lancashire taking no chances ahead of next month 's Benson and Hedges final . |
| 29 | The full circuit diagram for the UV Exposure Timer is given in Fig. 1 and is seen to be based around a simple 555 timer chip IC1 , wired as a monostable . |
| 30 | George Hurst , the son of a curate , was born in 1800 and was apprenticed to a silk mercer at the age of 13 , at the end of which time he applied himself to an energetic programme of self-improvement and became a schoolteacher . |