Example sentences of "[verb] in [num] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In municipal elections on Dec. 3 , 1989 , the MIR and ADN coalition won in six of the nine departments . |
| 2 | Labour Party candidates won in seven of the nine wards contested , thus gaining four seats and a comfortable majority on the council . |
| 3 | But if your ticket allows you to fly back from Lisbon or Oporto , after all this culture you could go walking in one of the national parks , explore the wine regions , or treat yourself to a spa ( try Termas de São Pedro and Caldas da Rainha , cheapest in Western Europe ) . |
| 4 | All Angus did was pull his robe tighter around him and slump in one of the high-backed chairs to glower at us . |
| 5 | An appeal court in Paris on July 11 ordered the release on bail of Paul Touvier , who had been held on charges of war crimes committed in 1944 during the Nazi occupation of France [ see also p. 37899 ] . |
| 6 | Parque de la Paz lies in one of the prettiest parts of Las Americas yet is only a short walk from loads of bars and discos . |
| 7 | To work out how the later neurons navigated Jonathan Raper and his colleagues in Goodman 's lab ( Journal of Neuroscience , Vol 3 , p 20 ) studied the development of two neurons , called G and C , located in one of the thoracic ganglia of the grasshopper nervous system . |
| 8 | Located in one of the richest greenstone belts in the world , companies from all over the globe are continually looking for , and finding , previous metals in the area . |
| 9 | One program , AUTOFRACTIONS ( see reference 3 ) , that has been used very successfully in the classroom produces large fractions on the screen in the format 4/15 = ? /60 , with the ? appearing in one of the four positions each time . |
| 10 | In this vein , Gerald Berreman recounts the poignant success story of Kalmu , the blacksmith 's son , whom he first encountered in 1958 as a thirteen-year-old drop-out from the village school . |
| 11 | Levels of pesticide and chemical residues in drinking water in England and Wales rose in 1992 for the second year in succession , according to the Drinking Water Inspectorate , although overall water quality remained the same , with 98.7 per cent of the 3.75 million tests complying with national and EC standards . |
| 12 | The Pazzaglini family are the friendly hosts at the Hotel Tiffany which stands in one of the quietest , greenest parts of Cattolica . |
| 13 | The course content was broadly along the lines first recommended in 1981 by the Working Party on Minority Community Languages in School , set up at the Second Assembly of the National Congress on Languages in Education : the fourth volume of NCLE Papers and Reports available from the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and research ( 1984 ) reproduces the proposal in full . |
| 14 | Pacino may pick a consolation Supporting Oscar for his hunchback in Dick Tracy , but this year could see instead ‘ length of service ’ Oscars for Richard Harris ( first nominated in 1963 for This Sporting Life ) and Joanne Woodward ( first nominated in 1957 for The Three Faces of Eve ) . |
| 15 | The Lancet responded in 1826 with a scathing letter under the heading ‘ Surgical Humbug ’ signed ‘ Antiquack ’ . |
| 16 | It was effectively superseded in 1980 by the Latin American Integration Association ( LAIA ) , which allowed bilateral deals and has since been an umbrella under which they have proliferated ( Tussie 1987 : p. 129 ) . |
| 17 | night-watchmen , who were superseded in 1829 by the Metropolitan Police ( see NEW POLICE ) . |
| 18 | Endoscopic sclerotherapy as an alternative form of treatment for bleeding varices was first reported in 1939 in a young patient with extrahepatic portal vein occlusion and was eventually popularised as an alternative to surgery by the work of Johnston and Rodgers . |
| 19 | Jones v Sherwood was about the sale of a business and should have been reported in one of the principal general series . |
| 20 | The two corps were amalgamated in 1880 as The 7th Battalion . |
| 21 | Even after many of the separate grants were amalgamated in 1958 into a single general grant , government continued to expand its financial support quite rapidly to make it possible for local councils to fulfil the pledges which national parties frequently gave in general elections — to replace slums or old schools , to reduce the size of classes , and much else . |
| 22 | She nodded grave acknowledgement of all my instructions , then disappeared below for five minutes , eventually returning swathed in one of the vast , padded and multi-layered foul-weather coats , and carrying a mug of coffee . |
| 23 | The ‘ New Economic Mechanism ’ , instituted in 1968 before the great sea change in East-West relations , was in fact frustrated by conservative rear-guard actions between 1972–78 , the years of greatest Western largesse . |
| 24 | Having housed a wartime officers ' mess and a succession of families , the house had undergone a motley array of alterations since it was remodelled in 1800 for a local mill owner . |
| 25 | A steam engine was installed in 1859 by the Bowly family , who were the millers then , to supplement the sometimes erratic water supply from the River Coln . |
| 26 | It was rebuilt in 1910 after a disastrous fire , and now houses the Derby Industrial Museum , where there are exhibits on lead and coal mining , stone quarrying , textiles and other local industries . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most distinguished is Welsh House — now Church 's China , rebuilt in 1975 in the original 16th Century form . |
| 28 | With the exception of the tower , the church was rebuilt in 1869–71 in the Early English style to designs by J. B. and William Atkinson of York . |
| 29 | Gareth stopped in one of the occasional small clearings and mentioned food hopefully . |
| 30 | The lone watchman might , just possibly , be wandering around with an oil-can in hand but more probably was immersed in one of the lurid magazines with which what was called the engine-room library was so liberally stocked . |