Example sentences of "[num] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back , I seem to recall that summer of 1943 as a continuation of cloudless days and warm sunshine , with long pink and purple evenings filled with the roar and drone of aircraft taking off all round us . |
| 2 | Charles Whiteside , of Tivoli Cottages , Moresby , joined Sekers in 1943 as an apprentice overlooker before becoming shift manager and later production manager . |
| 3 | A New Zealander , born in Dunedin and a graduate of Otago University , he went to Merton College , Oxford , in 1934 as a Rhodes Scholar , where he took a First in English . |
| 4 | Dinting Vale from an old postcard sent in May 1934 as a Robinson 2–8–0 crosses the viaduct heading a down freight . |
| 5 | Even longer-serving was Mr. Edwin Bromley , who had arrived in 1934 as a member of both the teaching staff and the maintenance department . |
| 6 | Rather than speaking of the seeds of ideological doubt sown in Nizan 's mind , it is more appropriate to envisage 1934 as a necessary stage in Nizan 's deepening awareness of social reality ; the gradual abandonment , in other words , of a stylised and exaggerated picture of reality , and a progressive movement towards a recognition of the unpredictability and complexity of the social world . |
| 7 | Edward Stanley Baker , who died at Great Dunmow , Essex on March 15 at the age of 81 , played 32 matches for Worcestershire in 1933 and 1934 as an amateur wicket-keeper with 40 victims . |
| 8 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 9 | Hussein was treated in hospital in Amman on June 11-13 for an irregular heartbeat . |
| 10 | Denys Darlow said : ‘ Having been a church musician since the age of eight as a chorister and later as an organist and choirmaster , the words of the Te Deum became a constant recurrence in my life and grew in significance as I grew older . ’ |
| 11 | Beck had a final round of 70 for a 12-under par total of 276 , but it was a tight finish , particularly when he bunkered his second shot behind the 18th green . |
| 12 | In the Masters of 1960 he finished with 70 for a total of 283 and celebrated ‘ victory ’ . |
| 13 | Severiano Ballesteros also had a 70 for a total of 213 but he must have been kicking himself for it included a seven at the 13th . |
| 14 | A miner 's resting heart rate can be between 40 and 60 beats a minute , compared with about 70 for a typical male . |
| 15 | This applies between the ages of 65 and 70 for a man and from 60 to 65 for a woman . |
| 16 | Now when I said you were very good at it I said what 's fifty as a fraction of one fifty ? |
| 17 | I was playing against the West Indies and I scored eight off a Cummins over without hitting a four , and for Natal |I 've build some 80s and 90s that have been matchwinning performances , but this time I 've just got far too excited ’ . |
| 18 | Some of the works were presented in 1971 as a sign of solidarity with Allende 's government , the rest were donated after the coup d'état . |
| 19 | Dismissed from the Albertina because of his German nationality , he then worked for the Graphische Sammlung , Munich , until 1971 as a curator and then as director . |
| 20 | Shaikh Rashid , born in 1914 , became ruler of Dubai in 1958 and Vice-President of the UAE on its formation in 1971 as a federation of six of the seven Trucial States [ see p. 25010 ] . |
| 21 | He moved to the UK in 1968 following the Russian invasion of Czechoslavkia and joined Bovis in 1971 as a project manager . |
| 22 | Joining Rhenania in 1971 as a Forwarding Manager in Heilbronn , he became Manager of Spendition Schneider in 1984 . |
| 23 | The UDA was formed in 1971 as an umbrella group of Loyalists . |
| 24 | Romaine does not deny that implicational relationships exist in language , but concludes ( citing De Camp 1971 as an example ) that " the problem is that some linguists seem to be quite willing to put forward very arbitrary implicational scales without justifying them . " |
| 25 | This norm contrasts with that of the groups ' careful speech which is very much closer to traditional Dyirbal ( see Dixon 1971 for a description ) . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State exercised his powers to apply to the NIRC under the Industrial Relations Act 1971 for an order requiring a ballot of trade union members to be held . |
| 27 | This motion is shown on the left of Fig. 10.1 for a set of test masses originally at rest in a circle in the xy plane : their displacements are followed over a complete cycle . |
| 28 | In the stanchions the lashing is a figure of eight through a hole in the stanchion and two eye bolts fixed into the false runners . |
| 29 | But the show did give UK users a first chance to see Borland 's Paradox for Windows , Lotus 's Freelance Graphics 2 and its revolutionary new Windows spreadsheet , Improv ( see page 97 for a full review ) . |
| 30 | A decision was taken in 1984 by F.I.S.A. at Pau to create Formula 3000 as a replacement for Formula Two . |