Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time required to pass a barge up and or barge down in a 50 feet balance lift would be approximately say 15 minutes . |
| 2 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 3 | How many businesses that went up in the 1980s might now come down ? |
| 4 | Although the Poles participated in the Reichstag , in the Prussian Diet and in the North German Union Parliament , their main areas of activity lay in the co-operatives , culture clubs , in popular education societies , reading rooms , choirs , orchestras and libraries that grew up in the 1880s ; in Catholic social organisations , in the physical culture movement and in the popular Polish-language daily newspapers like the Grudziądz Codzienny . |
| 5 | The target far exceeds that set out in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , which requires local councils to recycle 25 per cent of waste by the turn of the century . |
| 6 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 7 | The collection begins in 1901 with Picasso 's ‘ Woman in Blue ’ and peters out in the 1960s , although there are some exceptions , such as Miró 's late works . |
| 8 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 9 | I closed the door and sat down in the one chair this side of his desk . |
| 10 | Much of what we saw related discouragingly to familiar bad habits , a thought that occurred , not for the first time , to George Cohen , who for the benefit of younger readers made a notable contribution to the history of English football when turning out in the 1966 World Cup final . |
| 11 | In addition , he confirmed that the previously scheduled municipal and regional elections would go ahead on Nov. 8 , that elections for a new Congress would be held on Feb. 23 , 1993 , and that he would not remain in office beyond his term of 1995 , as set down in the 1979 Constitution . |
| 12 | That settled upon by the Government , and as set out in the 1967 White Paper , Legislative and Constitutional Implications of United Kingdom Membership ( Cmnd 33021 ) , was to meet the problem by the adoption by Parliament of a self-denying ordinance . |
| 13 | How about the BMA really setting the government an example by ( a ) encouraging all its disabled staff to register as disabled with guarantees of no discrimination , and ( b ) taking prompt action to move from its current level of 1.5% of workforce disabled , towards the 3% target as laid out in the 1944 Disabled Persons Employment Act ? |