Example sentences of "[num] and [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it was back to Mick 's summer stamping ground at Henna Cliff , one which Mick dubiously claims is getting ‘ very popular ’ , and climbed Henna Fall ( grade III/IV and claimed as a three-star 95 foot classic ) . |
| 2 | The AFTA formula had been proposed by Thailand in 1991 and approved at a meeting of Asean Economics Ministers in Malaysia in October [ see p. 38535 ] . |
| 3 | The Confederation of Caucasian Mountain Peoples ( a forum for Caucasus ethnic groups ) met in Tskhinvali on April 26 and called for a reassessment of relations with Russia . |
| 4 | Abdelkader Moghni , the imam of the al-Sunna mosque in Bab al-Oued in Algiers and recently elected as a deputy , was arrested on Feb. 7 and replaced by a government-appointed imam . |
| 5 | Legislation which made official Jewish equality of citizenship rights was passed in the Norddeutschen Bund in 1869 and extended to a united Germany in 1871 . |
| 6 | A spinster in her seventies and employed as a housekeeper at the time , she died in Bishopsgate Street on 17 April 1898 . |
| 7 | Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) . |
| 8 | Aziz returned to Moscow on Feb. 21 and reported in a late-night meeting with Gorbachev that Iraq accepted the peace plan , although Saddam Hussein in a broadcast speech that same day had maintained an intransigent stance and urged on his forces in the " mother of battles " . |
| 9 | He was born in Fife in 1870 and apprenticed as a carpenter but spent most of his life in England after leaving Scotland in 1893 . |
| 10 | The chair of the Campaign for Democracy , Beko Ransome-Kuti , who had called for a campaign of civil disobedience in the New Year if Babangida did not leave office , was arrested on Dec. 31 and detained for a number of days . |
| 11 | It is no coincidence that 1974 , the year in England and Wales which saw the end of the decline the proportionate use of imprisonment , and the beginning of a major economic crisis during which the numbers of male unemployed more than doubled by 1976 and increased by a factor of 5 by 1984 , also marked the beginning of the end of the welfarist consensus . |
| 12 | The single , which was originally issued in 1981 and deleted after a run of 2,000 , served as a blueprint for the band 's ‘ Uncertain Smile ’ , recorded after they had signed to Epic . |
| 13 | This dilemma was starkly perceived in June 1950 and answered in a way directly contrary to that anticipated so widely in the spring of 1948 . |
| 14 | The station in Kowloon was demolished in the 1970s and replaced by a soulless concrete and glass structure on reclaimed land at Hung Hom , opened in 1973 . |
| 15 | Across the River Plate in Uruguay , the great Central Station in Montevideo , built in 1897 and designed by a Uruguayan architect , Luis Andreoni , virtually marked the coming-of-age of the country . |
| 16 | Phosphocellulose fraction C was dialysed against buffer 3 containing 50 mM ( NH 4 ) 2 SO 4 and applied to a DEAE Sephadex A25 column at a rate of 5mg protein/ml bed volume . |
| 17 | Founded in 1637 and rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1824 . |
| 18 | It was demolished in 1911 and replaced by a much more utilitarian building . |
| 19 | What you can not turn to with such pride is BR 's printed timetable , which changed format several times during the eighties and ended as a poor thing , well below continental standards . |
| 20 | President Sali Berisha visited the USA on June 15-21 and returned with a promise of over US$60,000,000 in aid , in addition to $35,000,000 already promised on April 29 . |
| 21 | Why then has a divorced man , who cheerfully admits he is the wrong side of 50 and used to a fairly fancy-free existence , decided to play Good Samaritan to Bosnian refugees ? |
| 22 | Chief Officer Mason left as a Corporal motor-cyclist in 1914 and returned as a Major in 1919 . |
| 23 | Lindsay , a native Aberdonian , has worked in the offshore industry since 1978 and trained with a major hotel group before joining CCG in 1986 . |
| 24 | Chen Wan-chen , founder of the pro-independence Organization for Taiwan Nation-Building , who had spent four months in hiding , was arrested on Feb. 8 and charged under a controversial law with " preparing to commit sedition " , an offence carrying a maximum life sentence . |
| 25 | A room which served Coleridge in a different way stood at the back of the house on the first floor : this was Tom Poole 's vaulted bookroom , created by him early in 1795 and filled with a wide-ranging library which helped to reconcile Coleridge to the loss of his frequent visits to the City Library in Bristol . |
| 26 | Renault feel comfortable with the hatched style that they started with the 16 and developed into a smooth aerodynamic shape with the 25 . |
| 27 | The first car , initially 616 , was renumbered 1 and painted in a striking livery of crimson and sunshine-yellow , to distinguish it from crewed cars . |
| 28 | The 1966 Constitution was suspended in 1973 and replaced by a military dictatorship . |
| 29 | Martial law , which was imposed in 1949 and which greatly hindered the development of an effective opposition to the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT — Nationalist Party ) , was revoked in July 1987 and replaced by a National Security Law [ see pp. 35378-79 ] . |
| 30 | There are numerous picturesque villages , ruined abbeys , and historic houses within easy driving distance , including Sledmere House which was built in the 1750s and rebuilt after a devastating fire , using the original plans , in 1911 . |