Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the outbreak of war again in 1805 forced Gibbs to close in Cadiz , and once more he had to struggle to survive . |
| 2 | From 1946 to 1952 he was first lecturer and then senior lecturer in the department of philosophy and psychology at the University of Canterbury , Christchurch , New Zealand , and was professor of philosophy there from 1952 to 1958 . |
| 3 | Peter and Nona were not the only people planning to eat in the open air , because a coachload of school-children together with four teachers , all carrying packed lunches , had arrived to visit the Cutty Sark and then Gypsy Moth in its dry dock . |
| 4 | The Financial Times reports that , by 1985 , one in three of those in employment were in this category ( Financial Times , 27 February 1987 ) and according to national estimates published by the Department of Employment early in 1987 , the number of flexible workers rose by 16 per cent between 1981 and 1985 , while those in permanent , full-time employment fell by 6 per cent . |
| 5 | Jeff Dujon in action against Worcestershire early in 1984 , warming up for a century in the Old Trafford Test . |
| 6 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 7 | The girl was attacked after leaving this club in Northampton just after 11 p.m. last night . |
| 8 | Also that I described them in car on way home as five most grotesque examples of humanity this side of the swamps of Lousiana . |
| 9 | On being intruded briefly as vicar of Duxford late in 1646 he had been labelled ‘ a godly and orthodox divine ’ . |
| 10 | and the other thing is that to get this kind of continuity even at one post he 's got to work with Dave for at least six months and Dave 's going in March next year so we want a A L O in post by September of this year if that 's possible . |
| 11 | At home , the SPB ( it became the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds only in 1904 ) began to set up Nature reserves during the 1880s , as the decline in some native species became apparent . |
| 12 | ‘ There is no dispute about the land unless a claim is made … compensation for those who claim it for their land and receive it from the authorities is calculated according to the value of the property in 1973 plus the difference in the index of inflation together with four per cent interest . ’ |
| 13 | The Scheme was approved by the Ministry of Education early in 1946 . |
| 14 | The choice by the Queen of Lord Home in 1963 was of some importance since the circumstances in which it took place illustrated the difficulties of the process and led fairly quickly to the adoption by the Conservative Party of a leadership election process that was designed ( like the Labour Party 's leadership election ) to make the choice of a Prime Ministerial successor a constitutional formality . |
| 15 | Neither Bayer nor MAN was in the same desperate straits as AEG ; but even in the electricals firm 's case capital spending fell sharply as a percentage of sales only in 1982 . |
| 16 | So after pondering the matter for a while I approached professor David Keith-Lucas at Cranfield Institute of Technology late in 1976 . |
| 17 | Introducing the budget the Finance Minister and Deputy Premier , Vaclav Klaus , said that the government considered the transformation of the economy to be proceeding " satisfactorily " on the whole , above all in comparison with the neighbouring communist states : inflation had been brought under control after the deregulation of prices early in 1991 , the exchange rate of the koruna had been maintained , foreign trade had developed favourably , and foreign debt had increased only marginally . |
| 18 | A not insignificant push was given to this development with the decline in morale among expatriate workers in the oil industry following the assassination of a senior oil-company secondee near Ahwaz late in 1978 . |
| 19 | The climax of Delaunay 's success in Germany came when he was given a large one-man show at the Walden Gallery in Berlin early in 1913 ; both Delaunay and Apollinaire travelled to Germany for the opening . |
| 20 | His return to Scotland late in 1555 was reluctant , and seems to have been less concerned with the Protestant cause than a personal one ; in Edinburgh he could be reunited with Elizabeth Bowes and her daughter Marjory , whom he had met while a preacher at Berwick , and marry Marjory . |
| 21 | That was reinforced in a subsequent circular to LEAs later in 1981 and two years later Circular 8/83 sought a progress report from LEAs on the formation of a curriculum policy for pupils of all abilities and aptitudes . |
| 22 | Pied flycatchers have been the subject of study in the Forest of Dean ever since 1942 when the first eighty boxes were nailed into place . |
| 23 | The only light came from a group of candles high in one corner . |
| 24 | This continued on until 1958 after a war-time lapse with honours even after 22 contents . |
| 25 | The 24-year-old German put out former French champion Michael Chang at the French Open and will be an awkward test for the American , who plays his first match in Halle today after eight weeks out with a wrist injury . |
| 26 | The 24-year-old German put out former French champion Michael Chang at the French Open last month and will be an awkward test for the American who plays his first match in Halle today after eight weeks out of action with a wrist injury . |
| 27 | WIMBLEDON champion Andre Agassi is set to make his tournament comeback in Germany tomorrow after eight weeks out of action through a wrist tendon injury . |
| 28 | Agassi boost : Andre Agassi is set to make his tournament comeback in Germany tomorrow after eight weeks out of action with tendonitis of the right wrist . |
| 29 | Police forces should be strengthened to deal with internal security ; this was rendered more significant by the labour unrest in Japan earlier in 1947 . |
| 30 | Arafat adjourned the meeting in Tunis yesterday after two officials of the 18-member ruling body stormed out , PLO officials said . |