Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [subord] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Act 1974 if an employer persists in requiring his staff to use such machines .
2 Nevertheless , under pressure from the separatist Parti Québecois ( PQ ) , the Liberal provincial government of Robert Bourassa had already committed itself to a referendum on secession by Oct. 26 unless an agreement had been reached on a new constitutional structure .
3 Former Queensland Premier and National Party leader Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen walked free from the Brisbane District Court on Oct. 19 after a jury failed to agree on a verdict in his trial for perjury .
4 It began inauspiciously with the burning of Bearn , a ‘ patrician ’ of the king in Seletun by the duces ( ealdormen ) Osbald and Aethelheard on 25 December 780 ( ASC D , s.a 779 ) , and it ended with the assassination of the king at Scythlecester ( perhaps Chesters ) near Hadrian 's Wall on 23 September 788 after a conspiracy had been formed by Sicga , Aelfwald 's ‘ patrician ’ and principal lay representative at the legatine council of 786 ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) .
5 Earlier this year five other guests were awarded more than £6 million after a jury heard 80 per cent of the rooms in a South Carolina hotel had spyholes .
6 A CAB driver and an unemployed man will make close to £2.5 million after a jury ruled they wrote the Fifties classic Why Do Fools Fall In Love ?
7 Laura 's life was saved by the 15-hour operation on June 10 after an appeal raised £350,000 , including £150,000 from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia .
8 About 400 people were evacuated from a Royal Air Force base at Stanmore , north London , on June 21 after a patrol discovered a bomb , which later exploded .
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