Example sentences of "[num] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instructions that John Thorseby , Archbishop of York , issued for the clergy in 1357 and which were on his instructions expounded by the Benedictine monk , John Gaytrick , in a vernacular version known as the Lay Folks ' Catechism , give insight into the framework of thought within which life was assimilated to , and ordered by , Christian belief — the groundwork of assumptions that mystical writers in the vernacular could take for granted . |
| 2 | There had been no British embassy in Rome until 1876 and none in Madrid until 1887 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not yet 30 and I 've still got plenty of time to earn more money , ’ he shrugged . |
| 4 | My age is 64 years , but I feel more like a man of 30 and I am mentally more alert ’ . |
| 5 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 6 | The proportion living with parents fell with increasing age , from 82% of those under 20 to 15% of those over 30 and none of those over 40 . |
| 7 | Donate a pair before May 30 and you 'll receive a £30 voucher which you can use when you spend £60 or more on your new spectacles from Boots . |
| 8 | Money was not lacking : George Cadbury promised £600 a year for five years beginning in 1895 and his brother , Richard , agreed to do the same . |
| 9 | His mother died in 1867 and his father soon remarried , having a further son and four daughters . |
| 10 | The first local man who can be described as a manufacturer was Thomas Dunkley , who was born in 1802 and who began his working life as a shoemaker ; in 1851 William Dunkley was employing fifty men and twenty women and concentrating on a range of cheaper shoes . |
| 11 | Nos. 18–26 passed into the hands of London Transport in 1933 and their records show that they were sold to Cohens for scrapping on 17 May 1934 , Nos. 18 , 21 , 22 , 23 and 26 in Penge depôt and 20 , 24 and 25 at Fulwell , where No. 19 followed on 2 October . |
| 12 | The excessive leniency of the law was indicted frequently enough , especially in the wake of the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 and what appeared to be a monster ‘ crime wave ’ among the very young . |
| 13 | We have n't beaten the Aussies at Lord 's since 1933 and I do n't see us winning now . |
| 14 | Mercedes-Benz were the diesel car pioneers in the 30s and I grew quite attached to their big 300 diesel estate car , also with automatic transmission . |
| 15 | These rather gloomy thoughts were in our minds as we arrived , a bit soothed but still edgy , to find that the last ferry over the Rhone from Salin which would take us on to the road to Martigues had left at 11.30 and there would not be another until 2 o'clock . |
| 16 | Using five freight brakevans , the train will be hauled by BR Standard 75069 and it will try to cover as much SVR trackwork as possible , subject to availability . |
| 17 | He graduated in 1884 with a second-class honours degree in modern history , taking his BA in 1885 and his MA in 1897 . |
| 18 | He returned to Liverpool in 1885 and his father died in 1887 . |
| 19 | Ill health forced her abroad in 1885 and she returned to England to the Trafalgar Square riots of 1886 . |
| 20 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |
| 21 | The standard BC109 quotes a range of 180 to 800 and you are less likely to find you have a suitable device . |
| 22 | He went on to say : ‘ Student numbers in Scotland have increased by a remarkable 25 per cent since 1983 to nearly 110,000 and we fully expect by the end of the century that more than 40 per cent of young Scots will enter higher education . |
| 23 | They have this , they have this MP there from the S D L P from nineteen sixty-nine to seventy-two and he 's a , a pacifist , he went to the , apparently he went to and spoke to the leader of the provisional I R A |
| 24 | The agreement , reached after a meeting on Oct. 10-11 had ended in deadlock over the issue of Soviet tank quotas , followed a decision by the Soviet Union to cut its allocation of tanks by 150 to 13,150 and its artillery by 500 to 13,200 pieces . |
| 25 | Later this year the DTI will be issuing a consultative document on its proposals for implementing the Third Life Insurance Directive , which is due to come into operation by mid-1994 and which will enable an insurer to offer insurance anywhere in the Community on the basis of a single authorisation in the state where its head office is situated . |
| 26 | The prisoner had broken his fast on Oct. 12 and there was no evidence that he had died as a result of the strike . |
| 27 | ‘ He left when I was 12 and I ran into him once . |
| 28 | My offending started when I became a habitual glue sniffer at the age of 12 and I began stealing to finance it . ’ |
| 29 | Anne was supposed to be 12 and I was actually 14 when I did it . |
| 30 | The novice chase received an entry of 12 and it looks as though a handful of runners will go to post . |