Example sentences of "[num] [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 If a future Parliament is " hung " with the centre parties holding the balance of power between Conservative and Labour then the Liberals and Social Democrats have made it clear that the price of their giving support to any minority government would be a binding agreement to introduce proportional representation . |
| 2 | 2 If a pre-operative shave is indicated the Patient may require assistance . |
| 3 | It was not until 1963 that a reformist element was able to make itself heard , with the election to the position of first secretary of the Slovak party of Alexander Dubček . |
| 4 | Does he control presentation , identify the item , sequence properly ? 10 If a certain item is dealt with , how far removed is it from an item with which it could easily be confused ? 11 Are the contexts situational , natural and not contrived ? 12 Compare dialogue and prose texts : how many new words are introduced , and in what proportion to running words ( words already used ) ? |
| 5 | The Fono was dissolved in February 1991 and a general election was held on April 5 , some weeks later than had originally been scheduled because of the difficulties involved in registering the 80,000 newly enfranchised electors . |
| 6 | They met on January 8th , 1929 and a new General was elected by mid-February . |
| 7 | It was destroyed by fire in 1045 and a new cathedral was begun soon after . |
| 8 | It was reported on May 31 that a Taiwanese businessman was to purchase the Goddess of Democracy and use it as " a classroom on democracy " . |
| 9 | A temporary replacement was hastily found , but it was not until the end of 1946 that a permanent appointment was made , that of Sgt. P. Merrey , recently retired from the Derbyshire Constabulary . |
| 10 | After a decline in interest in the mid-1970s the series was suspended in 1975 while a new formula was developed . |
| 11 | Even so it was not until July 1962 that a precarious agreement was finally worked out between the factions in Laos , and one which was undone in due course by the intensifying conflict in Vietnam . |
| 12 | Claims by FORD members at a press conference on Jan. 11 that a military coup was being prepared to stifle the democracy movement were dismissed by the government as " malicious rumours " . |
| 13 | A waste acid recycling plant was completed in Huelva , Spain , in 1992 and a similar project is near completion in Calais , France . |
| 14 | Instead , with only 10 minutes left , Dewsbury led 12-6 and a genuine upset was in the offing . |
| 15 | The first regulations were introduced only in January 1962 and a full policy was not effective until 1968 . |
| 16 | Riot police used tear gas against demonstrators in the market area of the capital on Oct. 4 and a dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed until Oct. 17 . |
| 17 | Then a reminder of the tragedy came during World War I when a Polish soldier was walking over the bridge one starlit night when he saw the wraith of a man dancing on the parapet . |
| 18 | The ANC had confirmed on Feb. 16 that a high-level delegation was expected to meet the government soon , in order to discuss the ANC 's preconditions for formal negotiations . |
| 19 | Minimum competencies testing has not been a feature of the UK experience , although the government 's announcement in 1987 that a national curriculum was to be established , with benchmarks for achievement at ages 7,11 and 14 , appeared at first to have similar implications . |
| 20 | It is apparent from section 13 that a basic valuation is necessary to the consideration of an application for a further advance . |
| 21 | A matrix is not a simple scalar quantity like 2 or 8 and a special technique is needed to carry out the operation of raising a matrix to the power n . |
| 22 | Costs for a five and a half-day week are therefore £37,125 or £1,930,500 per year . |
| 23 | World Aids Day will be marked on December 1 and a multi-disciplinary group is in the process of arranging a range of activities for the week November 30 to December 5 . |
| 24 | A floating stage to accommodate two steam vessels was opened in 1880 and a floating roadway was added in 1926 . |
| 25 | It was the year before war broke out in 1939 and a small sum was paid for a quarter 's lessons , thirteen in all , I think , but I did miss one or two . |
| 26 | Originally a mound but now no more than a group of rocks , it was excavated in 1837 and a circular stone was found at a depth of 4 feet . |
| 27 | Built in many variants , a total of 16,769 Yak–9s had been produced when production ceased in late August 1945 and a typical example is preserved in the Museum . |
| 28 | This latter figure was revised downwards to DM42,700 million when a supplementary budget was approved by the Cabinet on May 13 . |
| 29 | It was not until the 1860s that a determined effort was made to expand the police and to use it as an instrument to suppress crime . |
| 30 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is a disgrace that chief constables across the country have declared a policy of not invoking section 39 if a civil remedy is available to the landowner ? |