Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OWNERS of De Loreans from abroad were arriving in Northern Ireland today for the start of a celebration to mark the 10th anniversary of the Ulster-built car 's official fan club . |
| 2 | The Mikado opened in Birmingham last week and will transfer to the company 's old London home , Sadler 's Wells , on April 28 as part of a season marking the 150th anniversary of Sir Arthur Sullivan 's birth . |
| 3 | The move coincided with the publication of a catalogue marking the fifth anniversary of their firm . |
| 4 | In one of those asides , Johnson with the eye of a painter gives the last glimpse of these high ways in 1773 : ‘ Once we saw a corn field , in which a lady was walking with some gentlemen … ’ |
| 5 | Okay , so it still takes the best part of an hour to move the next ten paces past passport control . |
| 6 | She would be well and truly mystified by the sight of an elderly king who needs to be helped into his chair one minute , but can swing his cane around like a golf stick the next , and even more flummoxed by the depiction of a world in which the porter has closed circuit television , but the method of killing has n't changed a jot . |
| 7 | School comes of age BISHOP GRAY joined parents , governors , staff and pupils for a mass to celebrate the 21st birthday of St Benedict 's School in Handforth . |
| 8 | It was commissioned by the BBC in 1957 for a programme celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the sovereign 's Christmas broadcasts , from King George V through to the present Queen . |
| 9 | It seems as though , when the need was felt again for a monument to adorn the last resting place of the rich and great , it was met by monumentalising the only existing art , that of painted pottery . |
| 10 | The offensive was begun on July 17 by Saddam Hussein during a speech to mark the 22nd anniversary of the " July 17-30 Revolution " . |
| 11 | During a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the group 's move to its new location , 300 people , including over 160 police officers , were injured in battles between 1,400 police and at least 7,000 demonstrators . |
| 12 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 13 | They see KIDLINK as a project to prepare the next generation in the use of the new technology . |
| 14 | Their parody of two drunken journalists provided the Royal couple with a chance to have the last laugh on Fleet Street . |
| 15 | Trade Unionists are planning to renew their camapign with a march marking the 10th anniversary of the ban in January next year . |
| 16 | Trade Unionists are planning to renew their camapign with a march marking the 10th anniversary of the ban in January next year . |
| 17 | It allows the beneficiary under a trust to sue a third party in possession of the object under trust so long as he is not a ‘ bona fide purchaser for value without notice ’ . |
| 18 | She always wanted him to tell her where he came from because she said , as she had said to Creggan on his first night , that for an eagle to survive the first thing he must know is where he comes from , and he must not forget his memories however distant they may be . |
| 19 | Two years later , in 1967 , ANDES was in a position to organize the first general strike by teachers to protest against cuts in the education budget in the name of rationalization . |
| 20 | We are now in a position to answer a third question : 3 . |
| 21 | In the heyday of Napoleon 's conquests he had access to fossils from all over Europe and was thus in a position to make the first comprehensive study . |
| 22 | We will , of course , move as quickly as possible , but it is most unlikely that my right hon. and learned Friend will be in a position to make the first pay and conditions order under the new Act immediately upon the expiry of the 1987 Act on 31 March 1992 . |
| 23 | The ANC on Jan. 8 , in a statement marking the 79th anniversary of its founding , proposed the convening of an all-party congress which would draft the broad principles of a new constitution . |
| 24 | The Fibonacci series is produced by adding together the last two numbers in a sequence to get the next number — 1 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 8 , 13 , 21 , 34 and so on . |
| 25 | These notes , if required , can be printed in a report showing the next month 's memoranda details or , if confidential , can be held but not printed . |
| 26 | REFORMED slow-coach Bernhard Langer is in a hurry to claim the second leg of golf 's elusive ‘ grand slam ’ in the U.S. Open . |
| 27 | The pre-head is composed of all the unstressed syllables in a tone-unit preceding the first stressed syllable . |
| 28 | In a speech to mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of former President Mohammed Siyad Barre , on Jan. 26 , Farah Aydid stated his readiness for a truce , but reiterated his implacable opposition both to Mahdi Mohammed and to the idea of an international peacekeeping force , which he said would serve only to protect the " self-appointed " interim President from the Somali people . |
| 29 | The decision was announced by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari in a speech to mark the 53rd anniversary of the nationalization of the Mexican oil industry . |
| 30 | ‘ We should not forget this and it should serve as a lesson , ’ he said in a speech to mark the 20th anniversary of Sino-Japanese diplomatic ties . |