Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boycott stayed over five hours for 70 but had no lengthy support , Botham holed out in the deep when his responsibility as captain was to put his head down , and England never looked as though they were going to make it . |
| 2 | Ashley were back to winning ways , bowling Prestbury out for 120 and scoring the runs for the loss of two wickets with Steve Tyrell hitting 82no . |
| 3 | He or she may now buy 5 per cent of the equity of the ungeared firm , ABC Ltd , for 12,500 and receive an expected return of 2,000 [ ( 0.05 ) ( 40,000 ) ] . |
| 4 | He was elected lord mayor of Liverpool for 1916–17 and became an alderman in 1921 . |
| 5 | They wanted not merely to take anti-pollution and anti-nuclear measures , but also to change Germany back into a rural economy , yet they grew rapidly in appeal after 1981 and attracted the sympathy of leftists who were dissatisfied with the moderation of the SPD . |
| 6 | When faced with complaints about hospitals , and especially about unacceptable waiting lists , the government made an emergency payment of £100 million for 1987/88 and commissioned a review of the NHS . |
| 7 | Ted was signed for the Palace by Manager Jack Tresadern from Preston in the summer of 1934 and had a magnificent first season , only prevented from making full appearances by an injury sustained in our Christmas Day fixture at Torquay . |
| 8 | There was reported to be strong personal rivalry between Demirel and Özal , who had been Demirel 's economic adviser in 1979-80 before acting as an adviser to the military regime of 1980-82 and founding the ANAP in 1983 . |
| 9 | Covenant politics has come to the forefront again with the Hillsborough agreement of 1985 and shows the extent to which the populist politics of the Democratic Unionists is rooted in protestant — loyalist tradition . |
| 10 | This superb floating hotel has a passenger capacity of 1,610 and carries a staff and crew of almost 700 . |
| 11 | The transition from the post-war boom in traditional industries to a modernized branch plant structure occurred after the Hailsham Plan of 1963 and changed the nature of the origins of the region 's economic problems from overspecialization by industrial sector ( i.e. over-reliance on old basic industries particularly affected by changing market demands and the new international division of labour ) into overspecialization by corporate function ( i.e. under-representation of control and research and development functions ) . |
| 12 | The antibody to γ-interferon was raised to highly purified natural human γ-interferon and had a neutralising titre against γ-interferon of 1:10000 but had no detectable activity against human alpha or beta interferons . |
| 13 | These watches are from a range of six that includes a replica of the timeplace Dick uses to communicate with base , complete with speaking microchip . |
| 14 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 15 | White cleared up to the pink with a break of 31 but missed a difficult black which McManus hammered into the yellow pocket . |
| 16 | He studied agriculture in England , but entered politics at the age of 21 and won a seat in the Sind provincial assembly . |
| 17 | Tail between legs , Nicholson returned to the Corman factory for another in the psychotic youth genre , The Wild Ride , with a cast of three and running a mere sixty-three minutes . |
| 18 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 19 | He was on the committee for the Belfast Harpers ' Festival of 1792 and maintained an interest in Irish traditional music throughout his life . |
| 20 | In his student days , he had been careful never to become involved in any radical movements , had joined the Komosol at the age of sixteen and become a card-carrying Party member before his 21st birthday . |
| 21 | Clause 52 of the Bill as introduced eventually became section 61 of the Act of 1976 and imposed a charge to tax on benefits in kind for higher paid employees , i.e. , those paid more than £5,000 per annum . |
| 22 | Watson dropped shots down the stretch , while Levi completed a round of 69 that sealed a four-shot win over Payne Stewart . |
| 23 | Civilian revolution was organized in Masonic lodges and it is the undoubted contribution of Freemasonry to the Revolution of 1820 that created the myth of its occult force . |
| 24 | After twice contesting South Somerset in the Conservative interest in 1910 , he won in the ‘ coupon ’ election of 1911 and remained an MP for the rest of his life , for South Somerset until 1918 , and then for Yeovil . |
| 25 | Now Ernie 's got a team of 6 and travels the country to compete on the national circuit . |
| 26 | The parliamentary façade of Bismarck 's Prussia , the french democracy which had crushed the Revolution of 1848 and did the same to the Paris Commune in 1871 , and even Britain 's constitutional monarchy seemed merely to disguise flagrant injustice . |
| 27 | Within two years Kenny was captain of the England Youth team , had skippered the Palace Juniors to the FA Youth Cup triumph of 1977 and become an ever-present member of the Palace 's side that won promotion from Division Three . |
| 28 | For better or worse , he also was instrumental in promoting the blockbuster exhibition , notably the infamous ‘ Treasures of Tutankhamun ’ extravaganza of 1978 that attracted the public in droves but made tranquil enjoyment of a work of art an impossibility ( those who believe that the age of the rib-crushing blockbusters has ended , thanks in part to increased insurance costs , are herewith directed to the Museum of Modern Art 's current Matisse show — provided you have a ticket ) . |
| 29 | Jenny developed epilepsy at the age of fifteen and spent the rest of her life as an invalid . |
| 30 | This is a requirement of the Bank Charter Act of 1844 but has no practical significance and need not detain us here . |