Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] be [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four hundred pounds , and four twenty , four forty at four hundred and forty I 'm offered at four hundred and forty pounds and selling for four hundred and forty pounds against you all . |
| 2 | Bankrupt former entrepreneur Alan Bond was found guilty on May 29 of acting dishonestly while attempting in 1987 to organize the rescue of the Perth merchant bank , Rothwells Ltd. ; on May 30 he was sentenced to 2 & 1/2 years in prison . |
| 3 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |
| 4 | In July 1991 he was transferred to 9 avril Prison in Tunis . |
| 5 | When I first applied for part time training in September 1984 I was interviewed within two weeks of the birth of my first child . |
| 6 | From 1940 they were joined by thousands of refugees who were keen to serve in some capacity , however lowly , and equally keen to escape internment . |
| 7 | In July 1662 he was appointed as one of seven commissioners to execute the Act for the Settlement of Ireland . |
| 8 | 11 I am walking at 4 km/h , how far will I travel in a ) 2 hrs b ) 7 hrs c ) t hours ? |
| 9 | Breeding may not be annual , but between 1965 and 1976 it was proved in eight years , involving a total of 10 pairs . |
| 10 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 11 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 12 | In February 1992 he was sentenced to four years in prison , which he is currently serving in Sindos Military Prison near Thessaloniki . |
| 13 | 3 It was selected by three established embroiderers , Polly Binns , Hannah Frew Patterson MBE , and Audrey Walker , ( with Linda Theophilus , from the Crafts Council ) , and included examples of 17th–19th century embroidery alongside a survey of key 20th century developments . |
| 14 | For his work at Horwich in World War I he was knighted in 1917 . |
| 15 | The Election of 1710 gave the Tories a majority of 151 in the Commons ; after the Election of 1713 it was increased to 213 . |
| 16 | Before the war they were split between two empires : Ottoman and Persian After 1925 they were split between four states : Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria ( there are also a few Kurds in the Soviet Union ) . |
| 17 | You mean five squared , you mean five times five equals twenty five you 're looking for five squared , so that 's the right thing to write ! |
| 18 | On his return to England he had hoped that Maisie and he would be able to marry , but on October 1 he was posted to 36 Squadron at Seletar on Singapore Island — and sadly , the plans for a wedding had to be deferred . |
| 19 | And it was in fifteen it was built in fifteen I think about fifteen sixty . |
| 20 | In January 1987 he was sentenced to five years and nine months ' imprisonment at Belfast Crown Court for possessing firearms in suspicious circumstances and for possessing petrol bombs . |
| 21 | On average workers ' pay in Belorussia had dropped by 1922 to 73.5 per cent of the 1913 level , but in 1923 it was to rise to 112.5 per cent . |
| 22 | Meanwhile on Jan. 23 he was sentenced to five years in prison , after a two-day trial , for forging the document allegedly signed by Papandreou which had featured prominently in the evidence presented against Papandreou . |
| 23 | In France the cabinet du ministre in the foreign ministry included from 1886 , under a number of slightly varying titles , a section which translated and analysed articles from the foreign press : by 1907 it was drawing on 175 newspapers for this purpose . |
| 24 | On 20 August 1584 he was apprenticed for eight years from 29 September to the distinguished printer Henry Denham [ q.v. ] ; |
| 25 | By 1782 he was paying for 16 boys and 7 girls aged 4 to 11 to attend the local school , and contributing money to build the local workhouse . |
| 26 | September , October , November , December erm we 're talking about sixteen , eighteen we 're talking about twenty twenty plus weeks twenty twenty one weeks . |
| 27 | By 1974 they were used in 56 per cent of guilty cases for adult males but subsequently their proportionate use declined and by 1988 the figure was 42 per cent . |
| 28 | In 1939 it was bought by two genteel but eccentric sisters , Caroline Lucas and Frances Byng-Stamper , who were closely associated with the Bloomsbury group . |
| 29 | On January 19 , 1989 he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of ‘ counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitations ’ . |
| 30 | In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ . |