Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [num] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 2 | On 9 January 1872 the Minute Book kept by the clerk now called Registrar , recorded the commitment of Richard Piper sued by Henry Pierpoint for 5s ( money lent on 14 November 1871 ) . |
| 3 | The Leith line had another branch added on 1 August 1903 to South Leith Docks from Newhaven via Bonnington , Leith Walk and Seafield . |
| 4 | Moreover recent racialist attacks are worsening and spreading to West Germany , as The Times reported on 7 October 1991 . |
| 5 | Keynes agreed on 13 February 1946 that overseas commitments would be the main casualty without the American loan . |
| 6 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
| 7 | The offer was accepted and the talk given on 25 April 1956 in the main Harwell lecture theatre ( now known as Cockroft Hall ) was attended by laboratory scientists and G. P. Thomson 's AEI team from Aldermaston . |
| 8 | The second full year of Council 's Doping Control Programme starts on 2 April 1990 . |
| 9 | Carey was invited to preach at the next Northamptonshire Baptist Association meeting on 30 May 1792 . |
| 10 | Their only child , Marie , was named in her mother 's testament written on 31 May 1719 . |
| 11 | The event commemorated the courage of the villages of Plestin who helped the crew of an RAF aircraft to escape on 27 September 1941 . |
| 12 | The movie opened on 19 December 1973 to less-than-glowing reviews , although it made over $22.5 million , becoming one of the year 's top moneymakers . |
| 13 | This was an appeal by the Crown by leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ( Lord Lane C.J. , Hutchison and Mantell JJ. ) from its decision on 22 April 1991 allowing an appeal by the defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his conviction at Isleworth Crown Court ( Mr. Recorder Bassingthwaighte ) on two counts of theft , the defendant having on 20 April 1990 pleaded guilty on re-arraignment to one count and on 24 April 1990 been found guilty by verdict of a jury on a further count . |
| 14 | They were exceedingly lucky as the reef was only clear enough of water at low tide for an aircraft to land on three days each month . |
| 15 | Then , unhappily , Mrs. Dennis died on 24 February 1983 . |
| 16 | THE Italian writer Primo Levi died on 11 April 1987 , to the dismay of his readers . |
| 17 | Applications for the new Queen 's award will be sought in the summer , with the first winners announced on 21 April 1993 . |
| 18 | By agreement between the foster mother and the local authority the hearing of the substantive application for judicial review commenced on 11 December 1991 was to be treated as the hearing of the applications under section 10(9) of the Act of 1989 , and the foster mother agreed to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review if leave were granted . |
| 19 | Despite all the scheming and matchmaking that went on behind the scenes , when Charles and Diana took their wedding vows on 29 July 1981 , they were undoubtedly in love . |
| 20 | The programme continued on 5 January 1990 , when Mr G Vincent ( Society Member ) of Wolverhampton and a former Chairman of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway , gave a talk and slide show dealing with the minor railways of Shropshire , of which there were quite a number in the heyday of steam . |
| 21 | ‘ By reason of the words published on 17 September 1989 and the words and graph published on 24 September 1989 the plaintiff council has been injured in its credit and reputation and has been brought into public scandal , odium and contempt , and has suffered loss and damage . |
| 22 | But the definitive change came on I August 1917 , when the Ministry of Shipping , which had been established by Lloyd George when he became Prime Minister in December 1916 , invited both the union and the Federation to confer with government representatives on the supply of seamen , wage difficulties and on other problems which were causing waste and delay to shipping . |
| 23 | They open with a declaration based on two promissory notes made on 1 January 1832 by the defendant , John Revill the younger , promising to pay £110.13s.4d. 25 months after date and £56.13s.8d. 31 months after date . |
| 24 | Matters deteriorated , to the point that at a board meeting on 25 July 1984 , Fields felt obliged to bring his solicitor with him , to sit like a boxing second , while his record with the company was contested . |
| 25 | The idea for such a course came from Prof , member of the Christian Aid Board and Professor of Religious Studies at Leeds at a Board meeting on 2 Nov 1987 . |
| 26 | The second small raid of significance to the commando story came on 3–4 October 1942 , when a few of the Small Scale Raiding Force and some men of 12 Commando landed on Sark in the Channel Islands . |
| 27 | Muccio recommended on 1 April 1950 that Rhee be warned that autocratic actions could adversely affect relations with Washington . |
| 28 | Made possible by the peace accord between the four warring Cambodian factions ratified on 23 October 1991 , the sculptures have all come from the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh . |
| 29 | Winners will be drawn from all postcards received on 14 December 1992 . |
| 30 | The only recorded royal tram ride in the first hundred years of Blackpool tramways occurred on 21 October 1937 , when HRH The Duke of Kent ( the present Duke 's father ) visited Blackpool to open Victoria Hospital , the lifeboat house and Princess Way , culminating in him switching on the Illuminations . |