Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1971 and 1972 he surveyed four oil refineries — two each in France and Britain — interviewing a total of over 800 workers . |
| 2 | In 1892 she became senior lady assistant commissioner to the royal commission on labour , investigating women 's work in Ireland , in the Black Country iron industry , and in London public houses . |
| 3 | In 1991 it offered handsome tax incentives to encourage the creation of big trading companies that would do the job more efficiently than lots of little sellers . |
| 4 | In October 1522 he conveyed two freehold houses and 1 ½ virgates to a certain Thomas Hyll , but subsequently seems to have taken up residence at Hagley , for in October 1526 he was presented for operating a brothel in which his own daughter was the star attraction : prostitution , it has been suggested , was a concomitant of deferred marriage , widespread among the peasantry of the West Midlands . |
| 5 | ‘ With the advent of TV in the Fifties you got lots of kids ' badges , while in the Sixties they grew larger and more colourful , and in the Seventies you had weird punk badges . ’ |
| 6 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |
| 7 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 8 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 9 | In January 1884 he became senior mathematics master at Blairlodge School , Stirlingshire ; in January 1885 he was appointed mathematical master ( later head of mathematics ) at King Edward 's High School , Birmingham , where he remained until his retirement in March 1920 . |
| 10 | The need for " dialogue " nevertheless became the keynote in pronouncements by Prime Minister Sid-Ahmed Ghozali , and on July 11 he invited all opposition groups to attend a national conference at the end of the month " to define the framework and forms of dialogue " . |
| 11 | On Dec. 6 he introduced further austerity measures designed to increase revenue ( which was anyway significantly less than originally forecast ) by 200,000 drachmas . |
| 12 | It is not clear when his experiments began , but an affidavit made out by Sadler and his assistant Guy Green states that on 27 July 1756 they printed 1,200 earthenware tiles of different patterns in six hours , and that the process had taken upwards of seven years to perfect . |
| 13 | In 1966 she married German playboy Gunther Sachs , following a whirlwind romance . |
| 14 | In 1923 he obtained two consultant posts as children 's physician , one at the Queen 's Hospital for Children , where for ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic , and the other at Paddington Green Children 's Hospital , where he continued to work for nearly forty years . |
| 15 | In 1970 he suffered severe brain damage in a road accident which effectively ended his career . |
| 16 | In 1925 he received national press publicity for discoveries concerning malignant growths . |
| 17 | In putting through Parliament the Law Commissions Act 1965 he created separate Law Commissions for England and Wales , and for Scotland , each with a seconded High Court judge as chairman , and a staff of qualified lawyers and others with the obligation to investigate particular questions referred to it , or on its own initiative to conduct a regular programme of inquiry into the general state of the law or any particular question , civil or criminal , which they chose to select . |