Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the sale of the 4 contracts the investor would have received a revenue of 1,400 less a sales brokerage of 12.50 .
2 The group fell apart in the spring of 1990 when the Balts began to stay away from the ‘ foreign ’ Soviet parliament , while Russia 's democrats squabbled among themselves .
3 There has not been such a bad outcome for the professionals since the American election of 1948 when the pollsters confidently predicted a clear victory for Dewey .
4 In the exercise of that right the landlord may exclude the tenant from occupation , but only for a reasonable time , and only if to do so is essential for the execution of the work ( McGreal v Wake ( 1984 ) 269 EG 1254 ) .
5 Pakistan were 699 for five in reply to India 's first innings score of 509 when the game was called off 10 overs into the final hour with Shoaib 203 not out .
6 The steady increase in the number of lifeboat launches continued during 1990 , standing at a new record of 4,935 when the figures were reported to the Annual Meetings in mid-May .
7 The cathedral was begun by Russian architects in 1471 but part of the building collapsed in the earthquake of 1472 so the work was handed over to an Italian architect and engineer , Aristotele Fioravanti from Bologna .
8 He was followed by Dr Marcello Caetano , a law professor , who remained in power until the popular Revolution of 1974 when the army overthrew the dictatorship .
9 The biggest example had been the General Strike of 1926 when a settlement was negotiated with Churchill .
10 The amount outstanding on bank credit cards increased by £0.13bn in the fourth quarter of 1991 following an increase of £0.21bn in the previous quarter .
11 Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 .
12 Hence the normality of 42 when the dogs referred to are of opposite sexes can not be used as evidence against the existence of two senses of dog , since it can be fully accounted for by claiming that only the general sense is operative .
13 In 1922 Mr Charles Hinks became articled to Mr Latimer and was given a partnership on qualifying five years later at the age of 21 quite a distinction as the custom was to buy a share in a practice .
14 All Home Improvement Loan borrowers who are resident in the UK , in employment and who will be under the age of 65 when the loan expires are eligible .
15 Bill Glazier was Palace 's aptly named and superb goalkeeper throughout most of our sojourn in Division Three , 1961–64 , and he was ever-present during our praiseworthy recovery under Dick Graham in the second half of 1962–63 , then in the magnificent promotion season of 1963–64 when the number of goals conceded was easily the lowest in our Division .
16 savings and the use of these quite a lot of priorities .
17 Hastings , like Dover , was to provide 20 ships out of a total of 55 when the king demanded .
18 It then moved to being paid so much per week , for an trainee , and we now have a mixture of such much a week , and so much for the output related fundings , the jobs , the N V Q's , the F E courses which I mentioned earlier .
19 The Department of Energy sprang a surprise in the autumn of 1989 when the paper it produced for the ‘ responses ’ group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested that , with more efficient use of energy , Britain could cut its consumption ( and hence carbon dioxide ) by 60 per cent by 2005 or 2020 .
20 Well as I say I mean we 're doing very well and all the money and , and you know , ninety percent of the money comes out of the the er the members ' pockets really I mean ev even the sub for the open show , we put out a lot of that even the stuff and things like this , so we do provide an awful lot of money .
21 He was given a rapturous reception by a flag-waving crowd of 5,000 when the result was announced shortly after midnight .
22 What is important is to explore these possibilities with the students and to use the example to illustrate the difficulty of the latter method if we try to apply it at the end of 1989 when the costs to completion are uncertain .
23 At the end of 1989 following a meeting with Lancashire County Council Transport Department it was agreed that the minibus bringing children to Scorton School should be able to take fare-paying passengers to the A6 to connect with the bus services to Lancaster and Preston .
24 From the summer of 1869 onwards the process was carried forward by a combination of the Emperor 's will and by its own momentum .
25 The next national issue to take the form of open public discontent was in the summer of 1987 when a group of about 700 Crimean Tatars staged an unprecedented demonstration in Red Square .
26 In Andrew Allan 's book of memoirs he relates how he was standing in the lobby of the New York Hotel Algonquin in the summer of 1947 when a man came up to him and said ‘ I 'm Robert Service and I think I recognise you .
27 It became the permanent home of the German race with the exception of 1959 when the race was staged at Avus , and 1970 when Hockenheim was used for the first time .
28 World-wide co-operation in the matter of the venereal diseases was first formalized by the Brussels agreement of 1924 when the signatories undertook to provide a free treatment service for seamen of all countries who were found to be suffering from infection .
29 A number of deaf people , including children , lost their lives during air raids by German warplanes on the British mainland , including a family of eight when a bomb scored a direct hit on their dug-out .
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