Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abdelkader Moghni , the imam of the al-Sunna mosque in Bab al-Oued in Algiers and recently elected as a deputy , was arrested on Feb. 7 and replaced by a government-appointed imam . |
| 2 | Legislation which made official Jewish equality of citizenship rights was passed in the Norddeutschen Bund in 1869 and extended to a united Germany in 1871 . |
| 3 | Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) . |
| 4 | Aziz returned to Moscow on Feb. 21 and reported in a late-night meeting with Gorbachev that Iraq accepted the peace plan , although Saddam Hussein in a broadcast speech that same day had maintained an intransigent stance and urged on his forces in the " mother of battles " . |
| 5 | The station in Kowloon was demolished in the 1970s and replaced by a soulless concrete and glass structure on reclaimed land at Hung Hom , opened in 1973 . |
| 6 | Across the River Plate in Uruguay , the great Central Station in Montevideo , built in 1897 and designed by a Uruguayan architect , Luis Andreoni , virtually marked the coming-of-age of the country . |
| 7 | Founded in 1637 and rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1824 . |
| 8 | What you can not turn to with such pride is BR 's printed timetable , which changed format several times during the eighties and ended as a poor thing , well below continental standards . |
| 9 | Lindsay , a native Aberdonian , has worked in the offshore industry since 1978 and trained with a major hotel group before joining CCG in 1986 . |
| 10 | Chen Wan-chen , founder of the pro-independence Organization for Taiwan Nation-Building , who had spent four months in hiding , was arrested on Feb. 8 and charged under a controversial law with " preparing to commit sedition " , an offence carrying a maximum life sentence . |
| 11 | A room which served Coleridge in a different way stood at the back of the house on the first floor : this was Tom Poole 's vaulted bookroom , created by him early in 1795 and filled with a wide-ranging library which helped to reconcile Coleridge to the loss of his frequent visits to the City Library in Bristol . |
| 12 | Renault feel comfortable with the hatched style that they started with the 16 and developed into a smooth aerodynamic shape with the 25 . |
| 13 | The first car , initially 616 , was renumbered 1 and painted in a striking livery of crimson and sunshine-yellow , to distinguish it from crewed cars . |
| 14 | The 1966 Constitution was suspended in 1973 and replaced by a military dictatorship . |
| 15 | Martial law , which was imposed in 1949 and which greatly hindered the development of an effective opposition to the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT — Nationalist Party ) , was revoked in July 1987 and replaced by a National Security Law [ see pp. 35378-79 ] . |
| 16 | There are numerous picturesque villages , ruined abbeys , and historic houses within easy driving distance , including Sledmere House which was built in the 1750s and rebuilt after a devastating fire , using the original plans , in 1911 . |
| 17 | The Crick Committee , which had been appointed in 1961 and reported on A Higher Award in Business Studies in 1964 , had originally been looking for an equivalent of the DipTech , but had waited for the Robbins Report before issuing its recommendations . |
| 18 | But while Ride and TFC took the indie way out of obscurity , gaining success by giggling like hell while maintaining a strong position in Sounds ' indie charts , Five Thirty bit the big one and signed to a major , East West . |
| 19 | But while Ride and TFC took the indie way out of obscurity , gaining success by giggling like hell while maintaining a strong position in Sounds ' indie charts , Five Thirty bit the big one and signed to a major , East West . |
| 20 | The great anti-Establishment provocateur of the Sixties now reduced to a gibbering wreck ? |
| 21 | DALE EVANS was born in 1956 and reared on a small Welsh farm in Cwmbran , Tredegar , South Wales , where her father breeds black Aberdeen cattle . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) Soviet forces were to be withdrawn from the former East German territory by the end of 1994 and governed by a separate bilateral treaty [ see below ] . |
| 23 | The original stained glass window was destroyed by vandals in the 1960s and replaced by a plain glass one . |
| 24 | Dublin Castle , the venue for the main event , the European Council of Ministers meeting on June 25 and 26 , has been refurbished at a cost of £22 million and equipped with a new conference centre . |