Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sparing use of the Practice Statement is confirmed by the statistics : the use of the Statement was made 39 times between 1966 and the end of 1989 , but in only 12 cases has it been applied to overrule a previous decision . |
| 2 | Although the miserable cold was likely to keep her awake all night — if one could sleep at all in the open air , with a raging storm about one and the fear all the time that someone might find one camped out like a vagrant ! |
| 3 | Primary energy demand in Latin America will increase by some 80% between 1983 and the year 2000 with oil remaining the major fuel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education . |
| 6 | Full-time married women workers formed about 10 per cent of the labour force between 1911 and the outbreak of World War II , and the experience of these women will be considered in Part II . |
| 7 | The level of aid increased rapidly after the signing of the Nkomati accord of 1984 and the publicity given to the famine in the mid-1980s . |
| 8 | Wallace 's Geographical Distribution of Animals of 1876 provided the model for the next generation of naturalists studying biogeography . |
| 9 | He leads a brigade of 13 and the hotel restaurant seats 70 . |
| 10 | The paper would need a minimum circulation of 300,000 to make money , and with an annual expenditure of £13.3 million would make an annual profit of £6.4 million if it reached a circulation of 500,000 But the idea never got off the ground . |
| 11 | A little awkward piece of one or t' other I think her . |
| 12 | Clint may be the wrong side of 60 but the cowboy superstar is not about to throw in the towel with the ladies just yet . |
| 13 | The years between the calling of the first Exclusion Parliament in the spring of 1679 and the meeting of the Oxford Parliament in March 1681 was the time when the Whigs were at the peak of their popularity , but this was a rather untypical situation , even for the Restoration era . |
| 14 | Li , a veteran of the Long March of 1934-35 and a commander of the Red Army prior to its revolutionary victory in 1949 , was a self-taught economist from a peasant family . |
| 15 | Prestel Education started its own software service in the Autumn term of 1985 and the feedback so far suggests that this is a service which schools find most welcome . |
| 16 | At that moment of experimental interrogation it must choose the stark alternative of one or the other . |
| 17 | Neither Catherine the Great 's Commission on Popular Schools of 1782 nor the education statutes of 1804 and 1828 nor the foundation of elementary schools by the Ministry of State Properties and the Holy Synod had succeeded to any great extent in promoting the cause of peasant literacy . |
| 18 | Even so , talk of course alterations continued throughout the jittery months of 1938 but no expenditure was undertaken . |
| 19 | Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 . |
| 20 | The future lay with full assimilation of all peoples into one and the emergence of an international culture . |
| 21 | The brewery was closed by Brent Walker in 1989 but a management team bought the site and restarted brewing a year later . |
| 22 | The longest period of peace was the twenty-six years between the end of the War of Spanish Succession in 1713 and the outbreak of that of the Austrian Succession in 1739 . |
| 23 | 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 ] . |
| 24 | Ring was killed by falling masonry in 1788 and the firm changed its name several times thereafter . |
| 25 | The company claims that compiler enhancements with the new release boost the Model 720 to 66.5 SPECmarks from 59.5 and the Model 730 to 85.4 from 76.8 . |
| 26 | A communiqué signed by the then Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin included a denunciation of the Soviet Army 's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and a commitment by the Soviet Union to assist the postwar restoration of Afghanistan . |
| 27 | The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 . |
| 28 | Berengaria promised to leave Alfonso in 1204 and the pope legitimized the children . |
| 29 | He joined as an assistant malting manager at Ipswich , and was made head maltster in 1968 and a director of in 1973 . |
| 30 | There was other evidence that , with a moderate ( 2 to 3 per cent ) rate of economic growth , the demographic trends would not impose pressures on the public purse until 2020 and a crisis would occur only if the economy failed to grow by 2 per cent or more . |