Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] and [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the following Tuesday , British Coal 's area director visited Point of Ayr and said the second phase would not go ahead during the review period , which effectively means development plans at Point of Ayr are on ice . ’ |
| 2 | It culminated in the total defeat of Japan and initiated the second major watershed in modern Japanese history , the reforms carried out under the Allied ( de facto US ) Occupation of 1945–52 . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the First World War he sailed for the United States of America and spent the next ten years dividing his teaching between there and England . |
| 4 | On the same day he told the defendants that he was interested in making an offer for Caliban and asked the first defendant to sound out what would be the plaintiff 's response to an offer in the range of $2m. to $2.5m. gross i.e. the plaintiff to bear the agent 's commission . |
| 5 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
| 6 | Sinn Fein MP 's met in Dublin and formed the First Dail in January 1919 . |
| 7 | Josslyn introduced co-operatives to Sligo and became the first landlord in Ireland to sell his land to his tenants after the 1903 Land Act . |
| 8 | Last Saturday , however , Brentford won at Peterborough and clinched the Third Division championship . |
| 9 | Johns made a second-half appearance for the Reserves in a goalless draw at Darlington and caught the next train back to London . |