Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Madrid daily El País of Nov. 30 reported that in the previous week gunmen forced the wife of Indian leader Almílcar Méndez to participate in a demonstration against her husband . |
| 2 | The whole subject was brought to a sudden climax when Hilbert in 1888 showed that for a form of any degree in any number of variables a finite " basis " always exists — and this without giving any indication of how to find such a set in any particular instance ! |
| 3 | Having calculated the odds , Napoleon III decided that at the moment this was unlikely . |
| 4 | Le Monde of June 9-10 estimated that in the 50 major , policy-determining laws of the 270 passed during Rocard 's term as Prime Minister , Rocard had relied on the support of the right and centre nearly three times as often as he relied on the PCF . |
| 5 | As we have seen ( Chapter 3 ) , Cunningham [ 1957 ] 2 QB 396 held that on a charge of administering a noxious thing under s.23 of the OAPA recklessness was defined as : did the accused himself foresee the consequence ? |
| 6 | An Amnesty International report of Oct. 11 claimed that in the previous 18 months members of the armed forces , often working in collusion with drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups , had killed 2,500 people and were responsible for 250 others who had " disappeared " following detention . |
| 7 | As Antonio Gramsci pointed out , the movement of 1848 failed because of the scanty bourgeois concentration in Germany , and also because the question of the renewal of the state was intertwined with the reaction to the national question . |
| 8 | The Guardian of April 3 reported that over the preceding months Treuhand had become the " focus of growing public anger " and was viewed as the " embodiment of eastern Germany 's economic misery " . |
| 9 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 10 | The Times of Oct. 6 noted that in the old FRG a party would have to win 2,250,000 votes to win representation as compared with only 550,000 in the former GDR where the electorate was one quarter the size of that in the old FRG . |
| 11 | In Holland opposition to the ambitious and unsuccessful foreign policy of King William I meant that in the quarter-century 1825 – 50 the number of missions abroad was reduced by five , while four others were downgraded and the salaries of Dutch diplomats cut by an average of a quarter . |
| 12 | the Guardian of March 1 reported that at a meeting between the government and members of the opposition in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , angry debate had erupted over demands by the opposition that martial law be declared not by the government in exile , but by an emergency national unity government reflecting various political views . |
| 13 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 14 | Commenting on the Khmer Rouge position at the talks , the Independent of June 27 said that for the first time in three years of diplomacy , the group appeared " unsure of themselves , and nervous of being outmanoeuvred " . |
| 15 | Goodman v Gallant [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 311 held that in the absence of any claim for rectification or rescission of the original conveyance , evidence could not be subsequently given in support of an unequal divison following severance . |
| 16 | The Middle East International of Nov. 23 reported that during an address to the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee on Nov. 19 , Shamir had specifically linked the territories with the need for space to absorb immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 occurred because of the Japanese desire to establish a presence in the kingdom of Korea and the Chinese attempt to thwart this ambition . |
| 18 | A Home Office Research Study published in 1989 found that in the 111 cases in the survey which the police judged to involve serious arrestable offences , the suspect was detained over twenty-four and under thirty-six hours in 44 of them . |
| 19 | Social commentators of the 1950s and early 1960s claimed that with the burgeoning of the ‘ affluent society ’ the major class inequalities of industrial society were a thing of the past . |
| 20 | On the eighth of February of nineteen seventy two died and on the eleventh of May seventy three died and the plaintiff 's continued the action but the action failed so he was awarded damages from the sale of his estate and on the twenty first of July nineteen seventy two commenced an action against solicitors for negligence or breach of professional duty in detecting to register the option necessity of so doing . |
| 21 | Several thousands went and by the autumn , six months later , when they were allowed to return to their pillaged homes , almost half had died , of disease and malnutrition . |