Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owned and bred in Ireland by Major Eustace Loder ( she was foaled only two years after Sceptre ( see pages 18–19 ) ) and trained at Newmarket by Peter Purcell Gilpin , she made her racecourse debut in the British Dominion Two-Year-Old Plate at Sandown Park in June 1903 and turned in an electrifying performance to win by an official margin of ten lengths — though some put the correct distance at nearly a hundred yards ! |
| 2 | The plaintiffs , a borough council , brought proceedings under section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 and applied for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendants from using shop premises of theirs for trade on Sundays in breach of section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 The defendants resisted the claim against them on the ground , inter alia , that section 47 was in conflict with article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 3 | At the diet of princes in Frankfurt ( 1147 ) he demanded the return of Bavaria , which had been taken from his father by Emperor Conrad III and bestowed upon an Austrian vassal . |
| 4 | Ring for a doctor straightaway , or dial 999 and ask for an ambulance |
| 5 | If your child is unconscious dial 999 and ask for an ambulance . |
| 6 | The ORF , starting at nucleotide 289 and ending with an UAG stop codon at position 2119 , contains the POU domain . |
| 7 | The Greater London Regional Planning Committee was reconstituted in 1932. and survived as an umbilical cord to commission Abercrombie 's work on Greater London 12 years later ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 8 | Why he was dragged out in 1558 and transformed from an obscure apostate into one of the very few great martyrs of the Scottish Reformation , remains a mystery . |
| 9 | He joined the Communist Party in 1946 and worked as an economic consultant to the Cuban government in the mid-1960s . |
| 10 | Just as working class girls were included in the state provision of elementary education in 1870 and provided with an education which emphasised the virtues of good housewifery and domestic management , so the increased attention paid to the education of middle class girls during the late Victorian period — by male bureaucrats as well as female pioneers — may be seen as being as much a result of the general educational reform initiative of the period as of feminist ambition . |
| 11 | He first started in the 1940s while stationed as an army draftsman in London , and from 1966 to 1988 made annual return visits , establishing relationships with Agnew 's , Jeremy Drummond , J.S. Maas and others . |
| 12 | A conference held by the two parties discussed the general election which was due in mid-1992 and called for an " independent , national body " to oversee it . |
| 13 | Well I 'd one come from Malta to England again , in nineteen sixteen and went on an old boat , they called it the Gurkha . |
| 14 | Men had been assessing her hungrily for years , ever since she 'd turned sixteen and changed from an awkward , gangly teenager to a tall , curvaceous young woman . |
| 15 | Briefly , a known excess of H + ions ( 250 µl of 0.1 M H 2 SO 4 =50 µEq H + ) was added to 2 ml of sample and 5 ml of deionised H 2 O. This was gassed with CO 2 free nitrogen ( washed through saturated barium hydroxide solution ) for five minutes to remove dissolved CO 2 from the sample , which was then titrated up to the reaction endpoint at pH 8.4 ( pH meter PHM 82 linked to an autoburette ABU 80 and controlled by an autotitrator TTT 80 all units Radiometer , Copenhagen ) with 15 mM NaOH . |
| 16 | The proportion of severe episodes from all pancreatitis discharges in men increased from 8.1% in 1977 to 13–4% in 1981 and remained at an average of 14.0% during the 1980s ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 17 | Rosenberg was killed on the western front 1 April 1918 and buried in an unmarked grave . |
| 18 | He learned to knit clothes for himself and others , and on the wall of his Stuttgart home there hung a big , beautifully designed and stitched carpet which he made in 1952 while recovering from an illness . |
| 19 | According to Hypo F & C's calculations , the fund would have achieved an average annual growth rate of 13.7% in the period 1980 to 30 June 1992 as compared with an average annual growth rate of 11.1% from a high-rate building society account . |
| 20 | Look out for the Mexican Day of the Dead , celebrated on November 1 and explored in an exhibition at London 's Museum of Mankind until next year . |
| 21 | Children under seventeen and accompanied by an adult are welcomed half price unless otherwise stated . |
| 22 | Why , by the time Prince Richard is fifteen and considered of an age to really marry , I shall be eighteen . |
| 23 | Having missed the deadline to register as a Democratic candidate in the November elections , he resigned from the party on Aug. 13 and registered as an independent . |
| 24 | 8 When preceded by an interrogative pronoun ( I do n't know what to do ) or adverb ( Tell me where to go ) , or by a conjunction ( He looked at the clock , as if it was time to go ) , an infinitive with to is often equivalent to a dependent clause : What to do ; What am I to do ? |
| 25 | He was born in Leeds in 1789 and trained as an architect , but by 1830 had taken over the fight against child abuses from Robert Owen ( q.v. ) , and conducted a vigorous campaign for a ten-hour day , which only succeeded in 1847 with the passing of the Ten Hour Bill limiting the working hours of all those aged up to eighteen . |
| 26 | Deep convection was renewed in 1971–72 9 and resulted in an abrupt drop in temperature . |
| 27 | A general election was held in Tonga on Feb. 15 and resulted in an unexpected victory for members of the island 's dissident pro-democracy movement . |
| 28 | When you 're 15 and working in an office for the first time it is a new world and a big challenge — especially when all your colleagues are speaking a foreign language . |
| 29 | The Council , the longest so far , moved to Rome in 1442 and came to an end , while the rump of the Basle gathering gradually faded away . |
| 30 | A simulated road course , the Campbell Course , was added in 1937 and ran in an anti-clockwise direction . |