Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [conj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This superb floating hotel has a passenger capacity of 1,610 and carries a staff and crew of almost 700 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | White cleared up to the pink with a break of 31 but missed a difficult black which McManus hammered into the yellow pocket . |
| 6 | He studied agriculture in England , but entered politics at the age of 21 and won a seat in the Sind provincial assembly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Watson dropped shots down the stretch , while Levi completed a round of 69 that sealed a four-shot win over Payne Stewart . |
| 11 | This is a pity because one of the best ways to gauge body size is to stand naked in front of one and take a realistic look at yourself . |
| 12 | On Wednesday night Linfield were out of the competition , beaten fairly it seemed by an aggregate score of 3-2 and facing a loss of around £15,000 on the failed European venture . |
| 13 | The first number of The Polar Star ( named after Ryleev 's almanac of the 1820s ) came out in the summer of 1855 and enjoyed a degree of success which encouraged Herzen to publish further volumes and to embark on Voices from Russia in 1856 and The Bell in 1857 . |
| 14 | A COVENTRY schoolgirl who helped form a theatre company at the age of 14 and took a play to Russia on a 10-day tour two years later could soon be working at the National Theatre . |
| 15 | He was an ever-present in the promotion side of 1968–69 that gained a place in Division One . |
| 16 | They then count , but they must not say any number that is a multiple of seven or has a seven in it . |
| 17 | India were 397 for three and take a 50-run first-innings lead into the fourth day . |
| 18 | Five processing trains were operational during 1992 and produced a total of 210 cargoes of LNG during the year , each cargo holding LNG equivalent to 2.7 bcf of gas . |
| 19 | Horan and de Kretser cornered some of those upper cases for Ceylon in Colombo on January 7 when they mowed down the visitors in their second innings for 46 and inflicted a ‘ pair ’ of ducks on Waddy himself . |
| 20 | We went back inside and signed the indentures , the scrivener cutting the parchment into three and keeping a duplicate copy . |
| 21 | And we might even divide Darcy 's Utopia into four and have a different Mission Statement in each , and citizens can move to the one they prefer : or work to change the one they 're in , if they prefer . |
| 22 | He was called to the bar in 1948 and became a QC in 1967 . |
| 23 | Of those who started on P. P. E. only two sat finals : Elizabeth Adams ( Lady Kennet ) married in 1948 and had a family of six , but combined their upbringing with a considerable amount of research in international affairs , particularly arms control and maritime affairs . |
| 24 | The controversy over the Tasaday , a group of 26 allegedly ‘ stone-age ’ cave-dwelling people ‘ discovered ’ in 1971 and pronounced a hoax in 1986 is based on the all-or-nothing ‘ cultural purity ’ argument of anthropologists . |
| 25 | By coincidence , he chose publishing assistant Lizzy Lamplugh , 22 , the sister of estate agent Suzy , who disappeared in 1986 while showing a client around a London house . |
| 26 | The book , which was published in 1986 and became a best-seller , was written with Americans Ken Smith , Michael Wilkes and Doug Kirby after several years of research . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ He came to live near us in Darlington in 1986 and became a regular at the church lunch club . |
| 28 | Uli played for the ‘ Boks against the Cavaliers in 1986 and scored a remarkable try in the Third Test . |
| 29 | As a result , The Lost Houses of Wales was published in 1986 and caused a massive stir with extensive press coverage . |
| 30 | I went for a couple of terms in 1986 and gained a different perspective on drawing which helped me look more deeply at my subject and see light and shade differently . |