Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head of the Palestine Survey Commission during the British Mandate Period , engineer James Hays , presented a multi-purpose concept in 1943 for water management in Palestine . |
| 2 | Fifteen aircraft of this type were built , Lufthansa using eight as mail carriers and the Luftwaffe employing six on photographic duties . |
| 3 | The political scene in 1990 was dominated by the run-up to the November presidential elections [ see pp. 37850-51 ] , the continuous peace talks with the URNG , which failed to live up to the promise of the June agreement [ for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 ] , and the controversy with the US government over political assassinations by right-wing paramilitaries [ see p. 37311 for March 1990 withdrawal of US ambassador and p. 37912 for December suspension of US military aid ] . |
| 4 | His plan for Bearwood ( Fig. 21 ) , executed in 1865–74 for John Walter , chief proprietor of The Times , and included in The Gentleman 's House , is an expression of what Mark Girouard describes as the Victorian ‘ genius for analysis and definition ’ , a genius which led them to classify everything from insects through households to societies . |
| 5 | The focal point is the château of Auvers-sur-Oise , built in the Italianate manner in 1635 for Zannoby Liony , banker to Maria de' Medici and her court , and later transformed into a French-style residence . |
| 6 | Alatas and Avice travelled from Vietnam to Thailand where efforts were made to arrange a meeting of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) in Jakarta [ see p. 37916 for SNC meeting in Paris in December 1990 ] . |
| 7 | The referendum was officially boycotted by six republics ( Armenia , Estonia , Georgia , Latvia , Lithuania and Moldava — although voting took place in some districts of these republics ) , while Kazakhstan , the RFSFR , Ukraine and Uzbekistan voted on additional questions concerning each republic 's status in the USSR [ see pp. 38078-79 for referendum details ] . |
| 8 | On grounds of style and also of known associations , several works can be attributed to Orchard : the Harcourt aisle ( c .1470 ) of Stanton Harcourt church and ‘ Pope 's Tower ’ there ; the church of South Leigh , a chapelry of Stanton ; and an aisle of the church in Waterstock built in 1500–1 for Thomas Danvers , lord of the manor and one of Waynflete 's agents . |
| 9 | PETER SUCH ( Essex ) produced a career-best 7-82 for England A against the Australian Cricket Academy in Melbourne which sent the ACA reeling to 231 all out in their first innings , after they appeared to be heading for a huge lead when they reached 159 for one . |
| 10 | The voting on May 25-26 was inconclusive , with no candidate securing the necessary absolute majority of the 1,060 deputies ( eight seats in the Congress were vacant ) : in the first round Yeltsin won 497 votes compared with 473 for Ivan Polozkov ( a conservative Communist Party regional first secretary ) and 32 for Vladimir Morozkin , and in a second round run-off Yeltsin won 503 votes compared with Polozkov 's 458 . |
| 11 | Returned ‘ without any seeking or soliciting ’ on his part to Richard Cromwell 's Parliament in 1659 for Castle Rising , again on a double return , he was allowed to sit but was inactive until the election was overturned a few days before the dissolution in April . |
| 12 | They lost openers Graeme Hunter and Derek Wislon with just six runs on the board chasing 147 to win , but a stand of 75 between Ross McCollum ( 55 ) and man of the match Craig Irwin ( 60 not out ) saw them home . |
| 13 | Curran made ten League appearances for the Rokerites in 1986 during Lawrie McMenemy 's ill-fated spell as manager . |
| 14 | A further 0.25 percentage point reduction in the intervention rate , to 9.1 per cent , was made on Nov. 12 when UK base rates were also lowered from 8 to 7 per cent and in Italy the discount rate was reduced from 14 to 13 per cent [ see p. 39159 for October reductions in UK and Italy ] . ) |
| 15 | Patel has recently calculated that vitamin A supplementation is among the most cost effective interventions in developing countries , with a cost of around $ 95 per life saved , compared with $ 230 for oral rehydration and $ 850 for measles vaccination . |
| 16 | SunSoft distributed 81,000 Unix licences , an all-time high that included 7,000 for Intel machines . |
| 17 | See Figure 6.2 for example output . |
| 18 | Explain how to calculate from these figures base-weighted ( Laspeyres ) price index numbers with 1980 as base year . |
| 19 | For the three sectors combined and with 1980 as base year , calculate current-weighted ( Paasche ) price index numbers for 1976 and for 1986 . |
| 20 | He came to Madeira in 1838 for health reasons and in 1841 married the daughter of Robert Wallas , a wine-shipper and steam-driven flourmill owner . |
| 21 | The vestry of the City church of St Peter-le-Poore , Broad Street , also had this in mind and , as a result , officials were charging an additional £50 in 1838 for iron coffins deposited in their vaults over and above the standard fee of £1 15s. 2d. as against the extra £20 asked for a lead shell — with all fees double for non-parishioners . |
| 22 | SunSelect , the Sun Microsystems Inc personal computer-to-Unix communications and peripherals subsidiary , was due last night to launch PC-NFS 5.0 for Microsoft Corp 's Windows For Workgroups and Novell Inc 's NetWare . |
| 23 | See Figure 6.1 for example output . |
| 24 | To investigate the expression pattern of this transcript , we did northern blot analysis of RNA from various tissues using the cDNA clones 6G11 and 14–6 as hybridization probes . |
| 25 | He was largely responsible for compiling the catalogue of the King 's Library , which was published in five volumes between 1820 and 1829 as Bibliothecae Regiae Catalogus . |
| 26 | I run a 90 diesel on 205 x 169 for road use and Michelin XCL 7,50 x 16- for off road . |
| 27 | Stewart made just one error with the gloves on a day of sweat and toil — failing to hold a difficult leg-side catch offered by Aravinda DeSilva on 74 off Devon Malcolm — but also impressed with the handling of his bowlers . |
| 28 | Stewart made just one error with the gloves on a day of sweat and toil — failing to hold a difficult leg-side catch offered by Aravinda DeSilva on 74 off Devon Malcolm — but also impressed with the handling of his bowlers . |
| 29 | The brave idea of starting the concert with Luciano Berio 's Sequenza VI for solo viola ( Paul Silverthorne ) alerted us to the fact that , in orchestral concerts , we have become accustomed to concert ‘ themes ’ and the overture / concerto / symphony format . |
| 30 | An agreement was reached on 5 January 1925 between Croydon Corporation Beddington & Wallington Urban District Council and the South Metropolitan Company for the reconstruction and widening of Stafford Road , Waddon . |