Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] on [num] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 2 | King George V died on 20 January 1936 . |
| 3 | No 87028 Lord President displays its InterCity livery while pausing at Carlisle with a southbound express on 27 August 1988 . |
| 4 | He was a papal chaplain by 1281 , and , following two disputed elections to the bishopric of Winchester , he was appointed by papal provision to this see on 9 June 1282 . |
| 5 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 6 | The most dramatic cloud of all occurred on 9 April 1984 somewhere between the Soviet Kuril islands and Sakhalin , a sensitive military area not far from where the Korean airliner was bombed from the sky . |
| 7 | It all began on 13 April 1898 with 37 miles of the Corporation 's very own tramway track and an extra four miles kindly leased by Govan . |
| 8 | But Henry II died on 6 July 1189 and Richard I succeeded nearly two months later on 3 September . |
| 9 | Prison sentences of between two and five years were on Feb. 25 imposed on 10 dissidents involved in the 1989 pro-democracy movement . |
| 10 | The light , which had twenty-four candles , was first shown on 28 July 1708 , and the lighthouse was completed in 1709 . |
| 11 | The opera , for which Mozart received a fee of 200 ducats , was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater , and had four more performances before the death of Joseph II put a temporary end to all theatrical events in Vienna . |
| 12 | In the minutes of 1847 , Mr Alfred D. Blott is described as the senior of the two ‘ Station Clerks ’ , he had been first appointed on 18 September 1838 , the day after the final section of the L & B Railway was opened . |
| 13 | As an example , consider 2% index-linked Treasury 2013 first issued on 21 February 1985 . |
| 14 | ‘ Durium ’ records came nearest to success ; the first appeared on 8 April 1932 . |
| 15 | , William ( c. 1580–1619 ) , portrait painter , is first recorded on 17 July 1606 when he was awarded the freedom of the City of London by redemption in the Company of Painter-Stainers . |
| 16 | ‘ The highest recorded weight for a piglet at weaning is 36.7 kg for a boar , one of a litter of nine farrowed on 6 July 1962 … at Kettle Lane Farm , West Ashton , Trowbridge , Wilts . ’ |
| 17 | 730 granted on 16 December 1991 from their decision on 7 November 1991 on a motion by the applicant , Wallace Duncan Smith , with leave of Hidden J. given on 25 June 1991 , for judicial review . |
| 18 | On completion of the final prototype , an order followed for 110 of these instruments , the first two despatched on 22 October 1943 . |
| 19 | The IAC reported for the last time in January this year and , under the terms of the 1990 continuation order , the 1987 Act is due to expire on 31 March 1992 . |
| 20 | This technique was last used on 5 October 1990 at the time of ERM entry in order to bring a 1% reduction in interest rates to 14% . |
| 21 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 22 | Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered . |