Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Famous Grouse , like all the 1991 World Cup sponsors , had a first refusal option included in their contract ; in other words they are asked to make a bid for 1995 before the marketing agent goes to the open market . |
| 2 | Wallace 's Geographical Distribution of Animals of 1876 provided the model for the next generation of naturalists studying biogeography . |
| 3 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 4 | In January 1326 Reynolds recorded that he had not convened a council of prelates and clergy since 1323 because the king had expressed his wish that none should meet without his consent , even though by canon law provincial synods should take place annually . |
| 5 | Novas got their shooting game going and had closed the gap to 48–47 before a succession of shots slipped wide of the basket to end their chances of a comeback . |
| 6 | The first of these is the bit-pattern index , in which all the alternative descriptors for each record are given values of 1 if the attribute is present and 0 if it is not . |
| 7 | By buying a £1 ticket , racegoers will be given a number which will correspond to a horse running in a race and , if it wins , they are guaranteed a return of 4-1 whether the horse is odds-on or an outsider . |
| 8 | Legislation to create a factory inspectorate ( 1885 ) made little impact , and the Insurance Law of 1912 provided no insurance against invalidity , occupational diseases , old age or unemployment . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , except in one regard , the Industrial and Provident Societies Act of 1852 provided the basis on which co-operative societies of whatever kind could establish themselves as corporate entities . |
| 10 | It was held in the circumstances that the defendant was negligent in not completely extinguishing the fire and that the Act of 1774 provided no defence . |
| 11 | There were power cuts over the winter of 1947 because the industry could n't cope with the demand . |
| 12 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 13 | Police have released a video of a man who carried out three robberies including one where a shot was fired . |
| 14 | Pre-tax profits tumbled to £44.8m from £70m in 1991 as the group had to pay exceptional redundancy and related costs of £9.2m . |
| 15 | There might be a better chance of securing assistance for members like Earl Haig in 1994 if the economy showed stronger signs of recovery . |
| 16 | Parliament 's control over direct taxation thus increased in importance after 1558 as the Crown became more dependent upon that source of revenue . |
| 17 | showed that the number of full-time male employees of local authorities increased by only 13 per cent during the critical period of 1964–74 while the number of part-time women in local authority employment rose by 86 per cent during the same period . |
| 18 | Gooch and his makeshift opening partner Hick put on 64 , then Gooch and Smith took the score past 100 before the captain fell to Harris 's gentle floaters for 47 . |
| 19 | Venice , Paris , Prague in 1758 provided the backdrop for ’ Casanova 's ’ personal journey into the political and sexual customs of society ’ whose ’ glittering external beauty , held all the charm of the Venus Fly-Trap . |
| 20 | Canada 's Ray Stewart was alone in second place on 136 while the defending champion , Tom Watson , was eight off the pace after a second-round 68 . |
| 21 | This conclusion is supported by the fact that changes in the fossil record , even rather rapid ones like the increase in human brain size in the last four million years , were slower by a factor of 1,000 than the rate at which changes can be produced by artificial selection in laboratory populations or domestic animals . |
| 22 | It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago . |
| 23 | The improvement achieved in all major classes during 1992 continued into the first quarter of 1993 as the portfolio benefited increasingly from action on rates and operating costs . |
| 24 | But the scholars agree that reliable sources are missing for the period from his arrival in Paris in 1906 until the war , and that what there is is superficial and contradictory . |
| 25 | He kept in check the political and economic expectations of his people , but in so doing he may well have placed a burden on his young and untried successor , the fourteen-year-old Makhostive , his son by Ntombi Latfwala , who was queen regent of Swaziland from 1983 until the prince was crowned in April 1986 . |
| 26 | It was accompanied by a street exhibition on the political history of Czechoslovakia from its foundation in 1918 until the present , again using of lot of materials not seen before . |
| 27 | It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us . |
| 28 | Next Day at Six before the Gate appears , |
| 29 | Providing children eat a reasonable variety of foods they do n't really need extra vitamins but as a safeguard it 's recommended to give drops containing vitamins A , C and D from six months to two years and until the age of five if a child is fussy about what she eats . |
| 30 | A s8 order will normally come to an end when the child reaches the age of 16 although the court can extend it to the child 's eighteenth birthday if the circumstances of the case are exceptional ( ss9(6) , 91(10) ( 11 ) ) . |