Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [num] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first verbal description we have of this scene of Wagnerian grandeur dates from 1481 when William of Worcester ( despite his name a Bristolian born and bred ) described the camp on the Clifton side as ‘ founded before the time of William the Conqueror by Saracens or Jews or by one Ghyst a giant in the land . ’ |
| 2 | Admittedly , the claim that things are better than in 1980–81 leaves a lot to be desired as a pre-election boast . |
| 3 | ‘ The casuals had dinner from 12.45 to 2.0 p.m. , worked from 2.0 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. , and from 3.30 had a make-and-mend and washed their shirts before tea . |
| 4 | America , already tied to markets in Britain , France and Scandinavia , saw the rising tide of German manufacture as a threat to its own burgeoning industries , and in 1897 raised a tariff barrier against German coal , steel , iron and textiles . |
| 5 | The balance of trade has been negative since 1982 , and in 1989 hit a record £24 billion |
| 6 | He was born in 1854 and in 1877 became a circuit minister in the United Methodist Free Church . |
| 7 | In 1931 he was awarded the Moulton medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and in 1954 became a vice-president of the Institution . |
| 8 | In 1842 he wrote a prologue for Westland Marston 's play , The Patrician 's Daughter , and in 1844 contributed a poem on religious intolerance , ‘ A Word in Season ’ , to an annual , The Keepsake , edited by Lady Blessington . |
| 9 | He was educated at Beaumont College , Berkshire , and in 1868 became a pupil of John Ramsbottom [ q.v. ] and later F. W. Webb [ q.v. ] in the locomotive works of the London and North Western Railway at Crewe . |
| 10 | It employs 600 people , and in 1992 made a profit of $140,000 . |
| 11 | In 1838 he accepted appointment as general superintendent of the new London and Birmingham Railway , and in 1837 became a director of the South Eastern , being its chairman from 1841 to 1845 and , as such , instrumental in the construction of the line to Paris via Folkestone and Boulogne . |
| 12 | George had a keen mathematical flair , and in 1873 became a pupil of John Wright , the locomotive , carriage , and wagon superintendent of the South Devon Railway . |
| 13 | In 1926 he was made a knight of Dannebrog ( Denmark ) and in 1929 made a knight of the Vasa ( Sweden ) . |
| 14 | After the war , in which he was gassed , he returned to Halifax and in 1920 married a typist , Ethel Waddington . |
| 15 | In 1832 Walter Henry built a Sunday School near the church , and in 1839 founded a day-school for boys while his wife began to teach young girls in the rectory . |
| 16 | He helped form Darlington 's first rambling club the Rucksack Club and in 1942 formed a branch of the Ramblers Association in the North-East . |
| 17 | Eventually Gould was to take Swainson 's point , and in 1865 published a Handbook to the Birds of Australia in two more manageable royal octavo volumes , with no illustrations and a revised text . |
| 18 | She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc . |
| 19 | Jaye flew the coop as soon as decently possible and in 1988 landed a job in London with the society couturiers , the Emmanuels . |
| 20 | At its height Baring Securities generated up to two-thirds of the privately-owned merchant bank 's profits and in 1988 won a Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 21 | Wyatt 's subsequent work was primarily as a country-house architect and ‘ improver ’ , although he competed unsuccessfully for a number of major public commissions and in 1816 published a Prospectus of a Design for Various Improvements in the Metropolis , in which he made radical proposals for replanning the West End . |
| 22 | He was educated at Chester Grammar School and in 1872 became a pupil of Joseph Armstrong , locomotive superintendent of the Great Western . |
| 23 | For a few years he was a lecturer in divinity at Hertford College and in 1911 published A Gospel Monogram . |
| 24 | Powell began work in the library of Brasenose College in 1893 , and in 1895 became a boy helper at the Bodleian Library under E. W. B. Nicholson [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | ANDES has criticized the way in which the mass media portray women and in 1975 staged a protest march against the Miss Universe beauty contest held in San Salvador that year . |
| 26 | He exploited the gravel deposits , built houses , and in 1818 added a chapel of ease . |
| 27 | At one moment he even seemed to have a small advantage , but after 44 moves a draw was agreed in a level position . |
| 28 | D'Arcy practised as a solicitor in Australia , but in 1882 formed a syndicate to exploit a vein of gold that had been discovered close to Rockhampton . |
| 29 | She might , as in 1986–7 , have to import 8 million tonnes of cereals , amounting to about 40 per cent of urban consumption , or , as in 1988/9 have a surplus of 3 million tonnes which could not be transported , and thus sold , to deficit countries . |