Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] " 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 | He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and presided at the 1886 and 1893 sessions . |
| 3 | A new name , that of the 38-year old Michael Holroyd Smith , appeared in the technical press of Europe and America in 1885 and stayed in the news into the next century . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 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 | Caradon was bought from publishers Reed International for £61m in 1985 and came to the stock market in June 1987 with an initial market value of £134m . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , the entry in the article which raised ghosts from the past was the section of Washington write-offs , in particular the entry concerning WF-495 that crashed in the sea on its way to the USA . |
| 9 | He was chairman of the Venice Biennale from 1974 to 1979 and served on the board of La Scala of Milan . |
| 10 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
| 11 | John Lloyd paid the subsidies in 1524 and 1544 and served as a juror of the manor court from at least 1528 to 1542 . |
| 12 | The process began with the Serbian revolt of 1804 and culminated in the rebirth of Poland and the creation of the new Czechoslovak and Yugoslav states in 1918 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Simpson signed for Palace in the summer of 1929 and came into the team for the fifth match of the 1929–30 season , on 14 September for the home match with Norwich City . |
| 15 | Woolworths opened its first British shop in Liverpool 80 years ago , thrived on its ‘ nothing more than 6d ’ formula until the second world war , lumbered through the the 60s and 70s and came into the embrace of Mulcahy 's team with more than 1,000 outlets . |
| 16 | He had fled to England in the early 70s and worked as a miner but later returned to the province through ill health . |
| 17 | Further economic adjustments were announced on Dec. 10 but faced with the continuing collapse of the austral Rapanelli resigned as Economy Minister on Dec. 15 and was replaced by González [ see p. 37118 ] . |
| 18 | Shops opened in Stockton at the turn of the century and in Redcar in 1924 but closed in the 1960's due to a fall in demand . |
| 19 | Interest in the use of hypnosis as an anaesthetic developed in the early 1800s but declined after the discovery of ether . |
| 20 | I was born in 1934 and lived through a world war . |
| 21 | The last general election to the Rashtriya Panchayat was held in May 1986 and resulted in the election of a number of members opposed to the panchayat system [ see p. 34423 ] . |
| 22 | The defendants admitted the validity of the will of 30 June 1978 but contended that the deceased had duly executed a further testamentary paper being a first codicil on 18 April 1986 and counterclaimed for the pronouncement in solemn form for the codicil . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For samples of her verse readers were referred to the three that appeared in the earlier number . |
| 27 | To cite a small example from my own research , anyone wishing to examine , say , the strange attempt at a revolution in Britain in January 1941 that went by the name of ‘ The People 's Convention ’ will have difficulty in the British Library . |
| 28 | The tradition began in about 1700 and continued with the Evening Courts which ended in 1939 . |
| 29 | Both had escaped to the United Kingdom in June 1940 and worked with the government in exile while regrouping the defeated Norwegian army . |
| 30 | Bill joined the BBC as a radio engineer 's assistant in 1932 and went to the fledgling Television service a few years later . |