Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [verb] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A majority of 10 EC Foreign Ministers rejected the Netherlands draft at a meeting in Brussels on Sept. 30 and demanded the reinstatement of the earlier Luxembourg text . |
| 2 | The Nazis polled over seventeen million votes on 5 March 1933 and began the transformation of Germany into a totalitarian state . |
| 3 | He was elected lord mayor of Liverpool for 1916–17 and became an alderman in 1921 . |
| 4 | In Goa the new Chief Minister , Ravi S. Naik [ see p. 37964 ] , expanded his ministry on Feb. 12 and won a vote of confidence in the state legislative assembly on Feb. 18 . |
| 5 | Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 and wrote The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405 ; the battle for women 's right to equal education took a long time to win . |
| 6 | Prices on the major US and UK commodity exchanges began to rise very rapidly in 1972 and maintained the pace through 1973 . |
| 7 | The reshuffle was effective from Oct. 2 and involved a total of 642 officers . |
| 8 | The secret is to divide the number of cylinders by 2 and double the number of heads . |
| 9 | He joined Comprehensive Financial Services , which later became Rathbone Brothers , in 1985 and became a director in 1990 . |
| 10 | Associated with Wood Group 's US development since 1985 and joined the Group as a director in 1986 . |
| 11 | Covenant politics has come to the forefront again with the Hillsborough agreement of 1985 and shows the extent to which the populist politics of the Democratic Unionists is rooted in protestant — loyalist tradition . |
| 12 | He left Aberystwyth in 1879 and spent a year in Oxford on a non-collegiate basis . |
| 13 | In an apparent attempt to placate the anti-reform groups in the Congress of People 's Deputies before it opened , Yegor Gaidar , responsible for the main thrust of the economic reforms , was dismissed by Yeltsin as Finance Minister on April 2 but retained the post of Deputy Premier . |
| 14 | She would be around forty but had the appearance of a heroine in a Victorian novel — tall , willowy , ethereal . |
| 15 | A working visit on Feb. 11 to Bonn , Germany , by UK Prime Minister John Major was described by The Times of Feb. 12 as marking the start of " a new era of close co-operation " . |
| 16 | Taxes Act 1988 , s66(3) states that if at any time a person acquires a new source of any income in respect of which he is chargeable under Case III or makes an addition to any source of any such income then in the year of assessment in which the income first arises from the source or addition and the two following years of assessment the charge shall be on an actual basis in accordance with TA 1988 , s66(1) . |
| 17 | Though the Khmers Rouges signed the agreement in Paris in 1991 that set the scene for the election campaign , they have not honoured their promise to stop fighting . |
| 18 | We also welcome the provision in part III that removes the use of the private Bill procedure to obtain powers that could be granted by orders for harbours . |
| 19 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
| 20 | These watches are from a range of six that includes a replica of the timeplace Dick uses to communicate with base , complete with speaking microchip . |
| 21 | There he opened a day-school in 1849 and built a parsonage in 1854 . |
| 22 | The hurricane struck in 1979 and blew the roof off Papillote . |
| 23 | The Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo — inaugurated in 1979 and continuing the aims of the Black Consciousness Movement ) on March 3-4 declared its total opposition to any dialogue with the South African government , undertaking to intensify armed opposition to the apartheid regime , and elected Itumeleng Mosala as its president . |
| 24 | Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million . |
| 25 | Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million . |
| 26 | County councils were established in 1888 and replaced the organisation of the lieutenants and the Justices of the Peace , which had operated since Tudor times . |
| 27 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 28 | Born in Oxford , Sadler lived from 1751 to 1828 and has the distinction of being the first English-born ‘ aeronaut ’ . |
| 29 | Li Peng paid a visit to North Korea in May 1991 and made a tour of South-East Asia in August 1990 and of the Middle East in July 1991 . |
| 30 | All entries must be received by 31 March 1991 and become the property of Emap Elan Ltd . |