Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Puddle was run out for 97 after figuring in a third wicket stand of 181 with opener Andrew Harris which provided the platform for Wales 's impressive success .
2 The absence of a different express definition of ‘ company ’ in Part III of the Act does not , in my view , prevent the definition of section 735(1) of the Act of 1985 from yielding to a contrary intention .
3 It is , however , difficult to account for properties 1 and 2 without appealing to the anthropic principle .
4 The influence had already rubbed off on former team-mate Ally McCoist , who was dropped from a vital old firm derby in 1991 for going on a prohibited trip to the Cheltenham Gold Cup .
5 Meanwhile , 300 women were arrested in Isfahan on July 26 after protesting against the Islamic dress code .
6 The Martin Hannett-produced ‘ Get Better ’ is their second 45 since singing to the Belgian label and the band set out on a European tour in March including a date at The Locomotive in Paris on March 20 .
7 Aberdeen 's Paul Lawrie had to thank a homeward 35 for his 73 after starting at the tenth with a 6 and taking another at the eighteenth where he three-putted .
8 Last term , he took the Quakers into Division Three by storming to the fourth division championship .
9 Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that rule 21 of the Family Proceedings ( Children Act 1989 ) Rules 1991 required justices to give reasons and state their findings of fact on making orders under the Children Act 1989 ; that where a party appealed their order , justices could not remedy their failure to comply with rule 21 by supplying to the appellate court a more detailed statement of reasons and findings of fact ; and that , accordingly , the appellate court could only consider the reasons given by the justices at the time of the decision ( post , p. 527A–C , E–G ) .
10 She brushed aside criticism at the Party Conference of 1946 by asserting of the different types of school : If the teachers get the same pay , if the holidays are the same and if , as far as possible , the buildings are as good in each case , then you get in practice the parity for which the teachers are quite rightly asking .
11 A Leading aircraftsman , he joined the RAF when it was formed in 1918 after transferring from the Royal Flying Corps .
12 It was briefly revived in 1957 until superseded by a new Promenade ‘ Circular ’ , which was circular only at each end !
13 In 1913 the Poor Law Institutions Order prohibited children between the ages of three and sixteen from remaining in a general mixed workhouse for more than six weeks .
14 Dawson made 46 before falling to a well-judged catch by David Hemp and Simon Hinks joined Hodgson to raise the 200 , but was caught behind for 19 off Watkin in the final over of the day .
15 Ensuring a stimulating caring environment where basic needs for warmth and cleanliness are matched by affection and concern ( see Chapter 6 for working in a residential setting ) .
16 With Andrew Woolley ( 40 ) and Phil Davis ( 39 ) at the wicket the champions had reached a promising 140–4 before slumping to the young spinner .
17 AI has received no new information about six members of the Islamic Liberation Party imprisoned in Libya since 1973 for belonging to an illegal organization .
18 Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party .
19 In some countries of Europe clearly the democratic institutions are stronger and more deeply rooted than in others ; but even where they are weak , the process of political development is conceived of as being one of moving towards a stronger form of democracy and dictatorship is seen as a deviation from the norm .
20 The action of Louis XIV in sending for the first time , in 1679 , an envoy extraordinary to the imperial court in Vienna probably helped to accelerate this process .
21 Scald and skin the tomatoes by placing them in a bowl , pouring boiling water over them , counting to fifteen before pouring off the hot water and replacing it with cold .
22 They would like to extract a declaration of intent , making it clear that , when the time comes , Israel will indeed implement Resolution 242 by withdrawing from the occupied lands .
23 Many respondents , especially those answering ‘ no ’ , interpreted question 1 by focusing on the traditional model of sole practice , and appear to have answered on the assumption that support for any enforced modification of the present model would give rise to a negative response .
24 José Napoleón Duarte , 64 , President of El Salvador in 1980-1982 and 1984-1989 , died on Feb. 23 after suffering for a long time from cancer .
25 He returned there in 1945 after serving with the Royal Artillery throughout the war .
26 In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years .
27 He denounced the arrests on Aug. 14 of opposition leaders , which , he noted , came on the same day as the release of Sgt. Venançio Mikó Obiang , who was convicted in July 1983 of participating in an attempted coup the previous May [ see pp. 32299-300 ] .
28 A lower Dutch court on July 12 acquitted all four of belonging to an illegal organization .
29 Required by the state constitution to produce a balanced budget , Republican Governor Pete Wilson recommended a record $7,700 million tax increase , $5,500 million in spending cuts and $1,600 million in borrowing from a public employee retirement fund .
30 Two down going into the seventh , the Scots were lying four but Ferland played two perfect draws round guards .
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