Example sentences of "[prep] [num] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , Sisson managed a ‘ Herr Issyvoo ’ sting of his own in the Nazified Berlin of 1934 and watched ideological street-squads slanging one another in Paris the next year . |
| 2 | Above all , a new review should build on the improvements we made but correct the mistake of 1985 and consider social security and tax together . |
| 3 | The shares , off 6 to 193p yesterday , trade on a multiple of 12 and yield 3.8 p.c . |
| 4 | When the Photographers ' Gallery opened in 1971 at number 8 Great Newport Street , it had a staff of three and staged 10 exhibitions in its first year . |
| 5 | William MacGillivray was born in Old Aberdeen , but went to Harris at the age of three and spent eight childhood years there . |
| 6 | The Single European Act provided for completion of much of the single-market process by the end of 1992 and introduced cautious moves towards political union . |
| 7 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |
| 8 | Push gently to a count of five and repeat other side . |
| 9 | A spokesman at the Brazilian Embassy in London said the ambassador himself was a father of five and had two grand-children and could identify with the family 's grief . |
| 10 | In other words , to obtain an initial fair comparison we would have to multiply the industrial related deaths by at least a factor of two and compare that figure with the number of recorded homicide cases . |
| 11 | To describe the experiences of 10 fundholding practices in the Northern region during 1991–2 and to elicit subjective assessments of the impact of their change in status on practice management and patient care . |
| 12 | In July 1990 , after lengthy legal proceedings , the House of Lords had ruled that the government had been within its rights in April in " charge-capping " 21 local authorities ( i.e. setting reduced limits on their expenditure for 1990/91 and fixing maximum levels for their community charge ) . |
| 13 | Divide into four and make each piece of dough into a circle approx 25cm/10in in diameter . |
| 14 | Webb played for Chelsea between 1967-73 and made 230 league appearances for the club . |
| 15 | He retired from the pub game in 1943 and died 11 months after his wife on April 3 , 1946 , at his home in Coniscliffe Road . |
| 16 | His reign , however , was short-lived , and his brother and successor , Theodoric II , cooperated rather more closely with the Empire , sending a third brother Frideric against the Spanish Bacaudae in 454 and appointing Avitus emperor in the following year . |
| 17 | Newmill-1 followed in 1971 and reached 6500 ft in the Lower Permian Sandstone , near the top of which it encountered traces of gas ; further traces were found in the Sherwood Sandstone . |
| 18 | Baragiola had previously been convicted of murder in Italy , but had escaped in 1980 and obtained Swiss citizenship . |
| 19 | This disendowment of a loyal servant is reminiscent of Edward 's shabby treatment of John Neville in 1470 and had similar consequences : Neville rebelled at the first real opportunity and the Howards backed Gloucester in 1483 . |
| 20 | This disendowment of a loyal servant is reminiscent of Edward 's shabby treatment of John Neville in 1470 and had similar consequences : Neville rebelled at the first real opportunity and the Howards backed Gloucester in 1483 . |
| 21 | She was appointed to the Foreign Office 's advisory committee on the Boxer indemnity fund in 1925 and made two visits to China ( 1926 and 1930–1 ) . |
| 22 | Its Report was published in 1867 and makes fascinating reading . |
| 23 | Albert Geldard , who gained an FA Cup-winners ' medal with Everton in 1933 and won four England caps , has died in a Bury hospital , aged 75 . |
| 24 | The Republic of El Salvador was ruled by Spain until 1821 and gained separate independence in 1839 , since which time the country 's history has been one of frequent coups and political violence . |
| 25 | El Salvador was ruled by Spain until 1821 and gained full independence in 1839 . |
| 26 | Meticulously edited , the volume sheds light on the activity of the Bassano shop from 1520–50 and furnishes new dating for many works . |
| 27 | Indeed Dearlove ( 1979 , p. 245 ) maintains that part of the case for reorganizing local government in 1972 and creating larger units was ‘ to make local government more functional for dominant interests ’ ( that is , less accessible to working-class representation ) . |
| 28 | She joined Nationwide in 1972 and spent 12 years in the studio . |
| 29 | Work on the Chiltern Line , linking London with Banbury , Bicester and Aylesbury , began in 1903 and took 3 years to complete . |
| 30 | In August ( immediately prior to Suharto 's National Day speech ) a group of prominent Indonesians , including many of the original " Petition of 50 " , had issued a public demand to Suharto to stand down in 1993 and to permit greater democracy . |