Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1939–44 he spent several years teaching in North America , at Hartford Seminary and at Fisk University , and he received an honorary DD from Wesley College , Winnipeg . |
| 2 | During 1876 he built new premises on the outskirts of Aberdeen , to cope with the increased demand . |
| 3 | Certainly there were new developments after 1660 which created new sources of political tension and which fed into the emergence of party , whilst over time the parties modified and adapted their positions to cope with new problems , issues and contingencies . |
| 4 | After 1917 he undertook diplomatic duties , including a goodwill mission to America and two visits to London in 1918 ; in 1919 he attended the Paris peace conference . |
| 5 | After 1988 it increased each year to 1526 in 1991 ( table II ) . |
| 6 | Respectable workers were rewarded with the vote , and in 1868 the Royal Commission on Trade Unions recommended the extension of legal protection for trade unions , which was achieved in the Trade Union Act of 1871 which for the first time gave legal protection to Trade Union funds and the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1875 which legalized peaceful picketing . |
| 7 | And it was indeed hope , education and reformation that dominated the sphere of juvenile justice in these years , most solidly embodied in the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 which consolidated these developments in the treatment of young offenders . |
| 8 | The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout . |
| 9 | Between 1986 and 1991 , 18 ( 18% ) patients out of a total of 100 who underwent restorative proctocolectomy were aged 50 years or over ( median 55 years , range 50 to 66 years ) . |
| 10 | In the close season of 1924 he signed outside-right John Williams from Rotherham at a ‘ dirt cheap ’ price of under £2,000 . |
| 11 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 12 | At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell : |
| 13 | By the end of 1981 we had 310 collections and reckoned to have covered about three-quarters of the region . |
| 14 | In the summer of 1981 I investigated this pattern of variation by surveying seven towns scattered throughout Britain : Bristol , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne and Sheffield . |
| 15 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 16 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 17 | At the age of 38 she suffered premature menopause , and her health then deteriorated very rapidly . |
| 18 | Twenty past twelve we finished last night . |
| 19 | One simply has to refer to the ILEA 's language census of 1987 which traced 172 languages spoken by children at home . |
| 20 | It lost much of its roof during the great storm of 1987 which devastated large parts of Kent and turned Sevenoaks into Oneoak . |
| 21 | Professor Keith Clayton of the University of East Anglia has warned that the odds of a disastrous storm surge , similar to that of 1953 which claimed many lives , have now narrowed from 1 in 100 to 1 in 25 . |
| 22 | In the winter of 1895–6 he built another machine , the Hawk , equipped with the world 's first sprung-wheeled undercarriage , in which , often with the assistance of a towed take-off , he made many ‘ flights ’ including his record glide of some 750 feet on 20 June 1897 . |
| 23 | His weight increased rapidly from an early age — the result of a natural physical disorder , not over-indulgence — and at the age of 23 he weighed 32 stone . |
| 24 | When Lord Addison was made Minister of Health he concentrated entirely on methods of financing council housing , and under the ill-conceived Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919 he guaranteed local authorities all losses over that covered by a penny rate . |
| 25 | Modigliani disliked writing letters , but during the winter of 1919 he wrote several times to Zborowski in Paris on practical matters , asking urgently for money and canvases , thanking Zbo for sending money and , rather touchingly , explaining his progress or the lack of it to his dealer . |
| 26 | To augment this kind of study , in the summer of 1989 we asked all Leeds primary heads to rate the overall effectiveness of the PNP INSET provision in relation to each of the four PNP aims . |
| 27 | Half past two I thought bloody clock 's stopped . |
| 28 | But it was not helped by such petty interferences with ordinary life as a decree of 1781 which forbade young men under the age of twenty-eight to travel abroad , or another of 1789 which forbade the granting of a marriage licence to peasant couples unless they could prove that they had already enriched the state by planting a number of fruit trees . |
| 29 | By the end of 1988 it had foreign debts of $100.4 billion , of which $70.6 billion came from 600 commercial banks . |
| 30 | The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union . |