Example sentences of "[noun] in [num] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again . |
| 2 | During the service , Peter was agreeably conscious that they were all looking at him as he sat in splendid isolation in one of the front pews . |
| 3 | Of these the most dramatic had been taken by a Ramallah lawyer , Aziz Shehadeh , who had already demonstrated his independent thinking in 1948 as a leading spirit in the Ramallah Congress of Refugee Delegates ( see above pp. 83–5 ) . |
| 4 | So , what has prompted this sudden outbreak of kindness in one of the toughest , least sentimental sectors of British business ? |
| 5 | BR could claim that even before the Monopoly Commission report 's comments on the need for a new rolling-stock policy it was moving towards the development of stock for use on all regions , having introduced Class 313 25kV AC/750V DC ( dual voltage ) inner-suburban stock in 1976 for the Great Northern electrification scheme followed in 1978 by Class 507 750V DC third-rail stock for Merseyrail ( Midland Region ) ; and Class 314 25kV AC stock in Scotland . |
| 6 | He made a deal in 1948 with the communist authorities that , if he could get passports for himself and his entire family to leave the country , he would make over his lands to the state . |
| 7 | The coalition facilitated a realignment from the two-party Liberal-Unionist contest in 1914 to the Labour-Conservative battles of the late 1920s ; only with the triumph of coalition in 1916 did the old politics die , and only with the destruction of coalitionism in 1924 could the new politics be born . |
| 8 | Panić and Vernon ( 1975 ) also found the rate of return on capital employed to be a significant variable in affecting investment in five of the six manufacturing industries studied . |
| 9 | In Northern Ireland ( where BGS runs the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland as an agency service for the Department of Economic Development ) , following the catastrophic collapse in 1990 of the disused Tennant Salt Mine at Carrickfergus , Co . |
| 10 | He and Catherine were ushered into the presence of Mr Timothy Hutton , who was housed in outwardly featureless modern offices in one of the little streets off Ludgate Hill . |
| 11 | The separatist Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) , led by Francis Ona and Sam Kauona , was successful in forcing the closure in 1989 of the giant Panguna copper mine by its Australian management . |
| 12 | To a typesetter , the closure in 1960 of the last Liberal daily , the News Chronicle , might simply mean he must take his typesetting skills elsewhere , and not necessarily to a newspaper . |
| 13 | The traditional association of the Democrats with minority interests was seen by many Republicans as an issue which would continue to erode the former party 's support in the South , a crucial common factor in the Democratic candidate 's defeat in five of the six presidential elections since 1968 . |
| 14 | Phat became NLF secretary-general in 1964 , and after the defeat in 1975 of the US-backed South Vietnam regime , Phat was named President of the short-lived South Vietnamese Provisional Revolutionary Government . |
| 15 | Lawyers representing the 14 people convicted in December 1986 [ see p. 34941 ] of the murder in 1983 of the Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and his associates [ see pp. 32614-18 ] concluded their case before the Court of Appeal on Feb. 9 , 1990 ( proceedings having originally opened in March 1988-see p. 36620 ) . |
| 16 | In July 1989 the police ordered the detention of a fugitive Spanish national , Emilio Hellín , an ultra-rightist sentenced in Spain for the murder in 1980 of a left-wing student from Madrid . |
| 17 | French prisoners also protested in July 1990 at overcrowding and specifically at Mitterrand 's decision on July 27 , 1990 , to release Anis Naccache ( as well as four others connected with his case ) , who had in 1982 been sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted murder in 1980 of the former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar ] [ see pp. 30631-32 ; for links with Lebanese hostage issue see p. 36632 ; for August 1991 murder of Bachtiar see p. 38409 ] . |
| 18 | My son started a youth club in one of the common rooms and we as residents we got together we really enjoyed ourselves in our way , you know ? |
| 19 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 20 | An earlier ferry had got me a front seat in one of the waiting buses . |
| 21 | FOLLOWING a 20-year career in the Army , Michael Mates , now 57 , was elected for the then Petersfield constituency in 1974 , holding the seat in 1979 with an increased majority . |
| 22 | Calcium increased faecal fat excretion in two of the three pairs of groups in which this was measured ( Table VIII ; p set at <0.02 because of multiple testing ) . |
| 23 | It has been argued , for example , that the majority of the 30,000 government employees in the reafforestation programme in two of the poorest regions of southern Italy are uneconomically employed . |
| 24 | This is significant , because there has been a period during which it looked as though , because of the societies ' successful opposition in 1990 to the then Italian Foreign Secretary Gianni De Michelis 's plan to site Expo2000 in the Veneto , the Italian government would no longer pay for the Unesco office . |
| 25 | Help people with disabilities to enjoy participation in their sport by running and raising funds in 1991 for The British Sports Association for The Disabled . |
| 26 | Help people with disabilities to enjoy participation in their sport by running and raising funds in 1991 for The British Sports Association for The Disabled . |
| 27 | The overall European Unix software market increased in size by 25% in 1991 over the previous year , according to the report , whilst the Unix hardware market was pegged at 15% . |
| 28 | The overall European Unix software market increased in size by 25% in 1991 over the previous year , according to the report , while the Unix hardware market was pegged at 15% . |
| 29 | He then made his New York début in 1931 as the squalid murderer in Payment Deferred , before accepting a Hollywood offer which took him to California for The Old Dark House ( 1932 ) and his first Nero in The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ) . |
| 30 | The trader would be obliged to make at least a bid in one of the generic runs and in a size of at least $5 million . |