Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on [num] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 2 | On 9 January 1872 the Minute Book kept by the clerk now called Registrar , recorded the commitment of Richard Piper sued by Henry Pierpoint for 5s ( money lent on 14 November 1871 ) . |
| 3 | The Leith line had another branch added on 1 August 1903 to South Leith Docks from Newhaven via Bonnington , Leith Walk and Seafield . |
| 4 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
| 5 | The offer was accepted and the talk given on 25 April 1956 in the main Harwell lecture theatre ( now known as Cockroft Hall ) was attended by laboratory scientists and G. P. Thomson 's AEI team from Aldermaston . |
| 6 | The second full year of Council 's Doping Control Programme starts on 2 April 1990 . |
| 7 | Carey was invited to preach at the next Northamptonshire Baptist Association meeting on 30 May 1792 . |
| 8 | Their only child , Marie , was named in her mother 's testament written on 31 May 1719 . |
| 9 | The movie opened on 19 December 1973 to less-than-glowing reviews , although it made over $22.5 million , becoming one of the year 's top moneymakers . |
| 10 | This was an appeal by the Crown by leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ( Lord Lane C.J. , Hutchison and Mantell JJ. ) from its decision on 22 April 1991 allowing an appeal by the defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his conviction at Isleworth Crown Court ( Mr. Recorder Bassingthwaighte ) on two counts of theft , the defendant having on 20 April 1990 pleaded guilty on re-arraignment to one count and on 24 April 1990 been found guilty by verdict of a jury on a further count . |
| 11 | By agreement between the foster mother and the local authority the hearing of the substantive application for judicial review commenced on 11 December 1991 was to be treated as the hearing of the applications under section 10(9) of the Act of 1989 , and the foster mother agreed to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review if leave were granted . |
| 12 | Despite all the scheming and matchmaking that went on behind the scenes , when Charles and Diana took their wedding vows on 29 July 1981 , they were undoubtedly in love . |
| 13 | The programme continued on 5 January 1990 , when Mr G Vincent ( Society Member ) of Wolverhampton and a former Chairman of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway , gave a talk and slide show dealing with the minor railways of Shropshire , of which there were quite a number in the heyday of steam . |
| 14 | But the definitive change came on I August 1917 , when the Ministry of Shipping , which had been established by Lloyd George when he became Prime Minister in December 1916 , invited both the union and the Federation to confer with government representatives on the supply of seamen , wage difficulties and on other problems which were causing waste and delay to shipping . |
| 15 | Matters deteriorated , to the point that at a board meeting on 25 July 1984 , Fields felt obliged to bring his solicitor with him , to sit like a boxing second , while his record with the company was contested . |
| 16 | The idea for such a course came from Prof , member of the Christian Aid Board and Professor of Religious Studies at Leeds at a Board meeting on 2 Nov 1987 . |
| 17 | The second small raid of significance to the commando story came on 3–4 October 1942 , when a few of the Small Scale Raiding Force and some men of 12 Commando landed on Sark in the Channel Islands . |
| 18 | Your Committee met on 2 December 1991 , when the principal items discussed were the Balance Sheet and the future Museum ( see below ) , the Winter Programme and progress on Glenburrell Bridge . |
| 19 | Your Committee met on 9 April 1990 , the main business being arrangements for the Annual General Meeting to be held on Friday , 4 May 1990 at 7.30 pm at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle . |
| 20 | Philip James Cattlin ( ACA ) of 97 Judd Street , London having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in London between 17 March 1992 and 15 September 1992 being sole proprietor of a firm of Chartered Accountants , failed to cause that firm to comply with an order of the Disciplinary Committee made on 17 March 1992 that it pay costs in the sum of £500 and having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he in London between 14 August 1992 and 15 September 1992 failed to provide information required of him by the Investigation Committee on 14 August 1992 in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) and in that he in London between 19 May 1992 and 4 August 1992 failed to satisfy a judgment of the County Court that he pay a sum of £5,634 and having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he in London between 7 January 1992 and 4 August 1992 failed to provide information required of him by the Investigation Committee in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) concerning a judgment of the County Court was excluded from membership of the Institute and ordered to pay £1,000 by way of costs . |
| 21 | One of Lewis 's more ambitious poems , ‘ The Jungle ’ , ends with a question — ‘ does the will 's long struggle end / With the last kindness of a foe or friend ? ’ — a question answered on 5 March 1944 when , hours before the start of his first patrol against the Japanese on the north Burma coast , he did himself that kindness with a shot from his own revolver . |
| 22 | This is an appeal by special leave of Her Majesty in Council granted on 24 July 1990 from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Jamaica given on 10 November 1989 and dismissing the defendant 's appeal against his conviction on 22 March 1988 in the Home Circuit Court , Kingston , Jamaica for the murder of Paulette Zaidie ( ‘ Paulette ’ ) on 11 January 1987 . |
| 23 | In pending cases wardship ceases on 14 October 1992 and all applications prior to that date must therefore be made to the High Court whether or not they have the effect of varying an existing order ( see Appendix 5 ) . |
| 24 | Hollings J. This is an appeal against the order of the Croydon Family Proceedings Court made on 20 December 1991 in respect of two children of unmarried parents , D. , a boy born on 20 February 1990 , now aged two , and R. , a boy born on 12 October 1991 . |
| 25 | Hollings J. This is an appeal against the order of the Croydon Family Proceedings Court made on 20 December 1991 in respect of two children of unmarried parents , D. , a boy born on 20 February 1990 , now aged two , and R. , a boy born on 12 October 1991 . |
| 26 | Work began on 1 April 1940 . |
| 27 | The siege began on 7 March 1746 . |
| 28 | The full system will comprise a standard ProVision integrated Virtual Reality system , plus a next-generation scalable visualisation engine based on 16 Intel 80860 processors capable of 1.3 GFLOPS . |
| 29 | The local authority , Devon County Council , applied to Exeter Family Proceedings Court for a care order under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 in respect of a girl born on 26 November 1986 . |
| 30 | Since the judge died on 8 May 1726 , it is possible that his son John who inherited the house decided against maintaining a full-time gardener . |