Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 It had been built in 1876 and consisted of a whole succession of low-roofed , dormer-windowed , gabled buildings .
2 4 You can learn more about the vauDe range by ringing 0434 320744 and asking for a catalogue .
3 Then it was back to Mick 's summer stamping ground at Henna Cliff , one which Mick dubiously claims is getting ‘ very popular ’ , and climbed Henna Fall ( grade III/IV and claimed as a three-star 95 foot classic ) .
4 Bake for 1 hour , then reduce temperature to 150C/300F/Gas 2 and bake for a further 1¾–2 hours or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean .
5 An Eppendorf reaction tube was suspended above the culture medium , the vial was gassed with 95% O 2 /5% CO 2 and closed with a rubber seal ( see Fig 1 ) .
6 The Yang brothers had taken a prominent part in quelling the " turmoil " in mid-1989 and presided over a massive programme of political education within the army .
7 John Lloyd paid the subsidies in 1524 and 1544 and served as a juror of the manor court from at least 1528 to 1542 .
8 These are by Platzer of 1759 and serve as a reminder of the wealth of the silver mines in Bohemia and Silesia .
9 I ordered a double portion of chicken and a Seven-Up and went to a table while they went back to the late movie on Channel 4 on a portable television .
10 The AFTA formula had been proposed by Thailand in 1991 and approved at a meeting of Asean Economics Ministers in Malaysia in October [ see p. 38535 ] .
11 The Confederation of Caucasian Mountain Peoples ( a forum for Caucasus ethnic groups ) met in Tskhinvali on April 26 and called for a reassessment of relations with Russia .
12 He had fled to England in the early 70s and worked as a miner but later returned to the province through ill health .
13 Abdelkader Moghni , the imam of the al-Sunna mosque in Bab al-Oued in Algiers and recently elected as a deputy , was arrested on Feb. 7 and replaced by a government-appointed imam .
14 In Hyderabad up to 80 people were killed by mounted police on May 26 while protesting against a lengthy period of uninterrupted curfew and the cutting off of water and electricity .
15 The government expected an overall current-account deficit of at least $1,500 million in 1991 as compared with a deficit of $2,300 million in 1990 .
16 I was born in 1934 and lived through a world war .
17 Legislation which made official Jewish equality of citizenship rights was passed in the Norddeutschen Bund in 1869 and extended to a united Germany in 1871 .
18 Gaynor Harris and her husband Charles Bullworthy have purchased the Southampton office , which Ms Harris set up in 1980 and ran as a sole practice until it merged with A E Hook & Co , an old established firm on the Isle of Wight .
19 I have had no problem with them — nor did I when I originally starting keeping fish when I kept three that lived to a ripe old age .
20 I was twenty-seven and working in a food and book collective .
21 A spinster in her seventies and employed as a housekeeper at the time , she died in Bishopsgate Street on 17 April 1898 .
22 Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) .
23 I went to window three and asked for a ticket to Stockholm the next morning .
24 The juices are sold in packs of three and come in a choice of apple and banana , grape and orange , and apple and blackcurrant flavours .
25 Aziz returned to Moscow on Feb. 21 and reported in a late-night meeting with Gorbachev that Iraq accepted the peace plan , although Saddam Hussein in a broadcast speech that same day had maintained an intransigent stance and urged on his forces in the " mother of battles " .
26 For further information about the ways in which you can make your home more energy efficient and make the most of the fuel you buy , ring 01-691 9000 and ask for a copy of the Home Energy Fact Files .
27 He was born in Fife in 1870 and apprenticed as a carpenter but spent most of his life in England after leaving Scotland in 1893 .
28 The chair of the Campaign for Democracy , Beko Ransome-Kuti , who had called for a campaign of civil disobedience in the New Year if Babangida did not leave office , was arrested on Dec. 31 and detained for a number of days .
29 In these circumstances , it is , in my judgment , impossible to regard the arrangements which Twogates made on 19 October 1984 as amounting to a re-entry under the … lease .
30 The fact that the country has become a major exporter means a boost to the balance of payments of something over £7 billion per year in 1984 as opposed to a debit of some £4 billion ten years ago .
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