Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head of the Palestine Survey Commission during the British Mandate Period , engineer James Hays , presented a multi-purpose concept in 1943 for water management in Palestine . |
| 2 | Feynman became well known in 1948 for work on the quantum theory of light . |
| 3 | Part of the reason Pearce decided to accept the request to head up British Aerospace was that he had been thirty-five years with Esso , eight as chairman . |
| 4 | Fifteen aircraft of this type were built , Lufthansa using eight as mail carriers and the Luftwaffe employing six on photographic duties . |
| 5 | Quintets by Mozart ( K452 ) and Rawsthorne ; Schumann 's Adagio and Allegro Opus 70 for horn and piano ; Ibert 's Cinq Pièces en trio for oboe , clarinet and bassoon . |
| 6 | Ballesteros returned 70 for day three to be two strokes behind the two leaders , with the West German Bernhard Langer . |
| 7 | The taxation review of Brush v Bower Cotton & Bower ( 1992 ) before Mr Justice Brooke sitting with Chief Master Hurst and Mr Tony Girling as assessors ( see para 4.8 , p 70 for reference ) is useful reading on all principles of recovery of costs . |
| 8 | I use the TC Electronics 2290 for chorus and delay and I 've been using a PCM 70 for reverb , but I just got this new reverb from Real Tube . ’ |
| 9 | Paul Lawrie also had 70 for level-par 288 to be 25th with Adam Hunter 's 72 for 289 giving him a share of 31st place with Stephen McAllister ( 74 ) . |
| 10 | KODAK 's EKTRON HAS PARALLEL BOSS-9000 FOR IMAGING |
| 11 | He had been restored to the earldom in 1470 as part of Edward 's measures against Clarence and the Nevilles , who had been the main beneficiaries of the Percy forfeiture . |
| 12 | He had been restored to the earldom in 1470 as part of Edward 's measures against Clarence and the Nevilles , who had been the main beneficiaries of the Percy forfeiture . |
| 13 | The two will jointly market the software on HP 9000s as part of the OpenView suite of products . |
| 14 | HP READIES LOW COST HUMMINGBIRD 7100 FOR ENTRY LEVEL TSUNAMI KILLER |
| 15 | The Treasury gave permission in 1971 for work to commence and the building operation started in the autumn . |
| 16 | About seven for drinks , and 7.30 for dinner . |
| 17 | Having been sacked from Ulm in 1934 for excess of talent , he survived in Aachen only until 1942 . |
| 18 | In that case the personal representatives of persons who were crushed to death at the Hillsborough Stadium claimed damages under the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1934 for pain and suffering alleged to have been sustained prior to their death . |
| 19 | Stolen in 1933 , it was taken to Prague in 1934 for restoration after its recovery . |
| 20 | Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed announced on Feb. 8 the details of a Cabinet reshuffle to take effect from March 15 [ see p. 37861 for Cabinet appointed in October 1990 ] . |
| 21 | The referendum was officially boycotted by six republics ( Armenia , Estonia , Georgia , Latvia , Lithuania and Moldava — although voting took place in some districts of these republics ) , while Kazakhstan , the RFSFR , Ukraine and Uzbekistan voted on additional questions concerning each republic 's status in the USSR [ see pp. 38078-79 for referendum details ] . |
| 22 | Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai delivered his government 's policy statement to parliament on Oct. 21 [ see pp. 39093 for formation of Chuan government in September ] . |
| 23 | Three pounds fifty for our institute and five pounds fifty for County and National . |
| 24 | United States President George Bush visited Singapore on Jan. 3-5 as part of a four-country Asian tour [ see also p. 38713 ] . |
| 25 | The domestic car manufacturing industry , heavily protected since the 1950s , had already begun to face some competition from imports when quotas were partially lifted in July 1990 [ see also p. 38002 for reduction in tariffs on imports ] . |
| 26 | When Schniedau says , ‘ What Pound did to English literature and British sensibilities does n't seem forgivable ’ , he doubtless has in mind certain passages from How to Read , which was originally addressed to the American readers of the New York Herald Tribune Books on 13 , 20 , and 27 January 1929. for instance : |
| 27 | Morocco , the only AMU country to send forces in support of the United States-led coalition in the Gulf , stressed that its 1,300-strong force in Saudi Arabia had a " defensive " role in guarding the Assafaniya oil refinery [ see also p. 37989 for opposition in North Africa to the Gulf war ] . |
| 28 | Victory would give him a second round match against veteran Australian doubles specialist John Fitzgerald , a wild card whose singles ranking has slumped to 293 through inactivity , or Belgian Bart Wuyts , who lost on his only previous Wimbledon appearance in 1991 . |
| 29 | A UN team visited Kuwait in March and reported that although a deliberate attempt had been made to " extinguish Kuwait " , the country had made good progress in dealing with immediate humanitarian needs [ see p. 38082 for mission to Iraq ] . |
| 30 | Patients older than 75 years were not entered and those reaching 75 during surveillance were withdrawn . |