Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The analysis of maximum contributions determined during 1988–89 contained in the first Legal Aid Board Annual Report ( 1989–90 ) contains the following figures relating to all courts :
2 The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure .
3 Almost immediately after completing the poem , he began in the early months of 1941 to work on the fourth in the sequence ; it was entitled " Little Gidding " .
4 That eventful first full year of 1908 finished with the second Annual General Meeting in October and the presentation of the First Annual Report and Financial Statement — copies of both have luckily survived , as has the bondholders ' account which deals with the course and clubhouse construction .
5 One hundred patients of a total of 335 presenting for the first time with variceal haemorrhage were recruited into the study and randomised .
6 However , he got out of the commitment and at the age of 20 embarked on the first of many journeys to Europe .
7 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 .
8 With 10 needed off the last three overs of the day , Waqar worked Salisbury to mid-wicket for three .
9 FOUR musicians who began playing together at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1986 play at the next Darlington Music Society concert on March 14 .
10 Only 77 per cent of children enrolled in the first grade ( Standard Sub-A- SSA ) in 1985 survived into the second year ( Standard Sub-B — SSB ) , little better than the 74 per cent of 1966 .
11 Arrears in 1988/9 increased by a third over the previous year to more than £450 million .
12 When reading this chapter , remember that not merely is NSE the largest of BR 's businesses but in 1989 ranked as the 106th largest business of every kind in Britain .
13 To what extent this is the case is a matter for debate ; however , the fact that trade with the developing nations is intended to play some part is indicated by the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1981–5 and for the Period Ending in 1990 adopted at the 26th CPSU Congress in 1981 , which envisage ‘ [ the development ] , on a long-term and equitable basis , [ of a ] mutually beneficial exchange of goods … with developing countries ’ ( in Koshelev : 1982 , pp. 8–9 ) .
14 Air temperature averaged 8.4C ( 47.1F ) giving the coldest October at Bidston since 1926 , and ranged from a maximum of 15.1C ( 59.2F ) the lowest October maximum since 1974 recorded on the 1st , to a minimum of 2.7C ( 36.9F ) the lowest October minimum for four years recorded on the 20th .
15 A BOY aged three fell from a sixth floor balcony in Murcia , Spain , bounced off a sunshade on to a clothes line and escaped unhurt .
16 ANGEL FACE BOY AGED 11 NICKED FOR THE 69th TIME
17 Warwickshire 's Jason Ratcliffe made 104 to help the county to 347 for seven declared on the second day of their tour match against Boland in Brackenfell , South Africa , yesterday .
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