Example sentences of "[num] [noun prp] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in 1986 Virani sold the little beer-maker for £25 million — only to buy it back again in 1988 for £8 million less . |
| 2 | In September 1861 Valuev wrote a long paper on the progress of emancipation which concluded by acknowledging that " Sometimes the need arises to legitimize things which have not been and could not have been envisaged by a law " . |
| 3 | The 1980 WIRS contained an identical question on the use of fixed-term contract workers as did the 1984 survey ( the question on the use of agency workers was not consistent ) . |
| 4 | In 1755 Bach made a decisive break with the inward-looking Lutheran traditions of his forebears by travelling to Italy , possibly in the company of an Italian lady singer , where he took counterpoint lessons with Padre Martini in Bologna , composed several Roman Catholic church works , and secured a Milanese patron , Count Agostino Litta , through whose efforts he became ‘ second organist ’ at Milan cathedral in 1760 . |
| 5 | In 1935 Humphrys left the public service and embarked on a career in the City . |
| 6 | In an address to foreign ambassadors at the end of 1985 Gorbachev underlined the Soviet readiness to search for ‘ just solutions jointly with other countries ’ to conflicts in various regions and ‘ to participate where necessary , in respective guarantees ’ . |
| 7 | The Foreign Affairs Committee statement on 2 December gave the initial response from the European Community . |
| 8 | On Sept. 12 Aquino ordered an indefinite ceasefire in Manila and the earthquake-hit northern areas — Baguio City and the provinces of Benguet , Mountain and Neuva Vizcaya — with a view to expanding it later . |
| 9 | A fund-raising target of £3,000 initiated on 30 November to buy a specialised bed for the Douglas Macmillan Home was reached before the end of last year — and has since been significantly exceeded with money still coming in . |
| 10 | In the mid-1860s Dostoevsky developed a marked tendency to fuss about the relation between real life and fiction , between the goings-on in the newspapers and what he was saying or wanted to say in his novels . |
| 11 | In 1933 Read published an even-handed book called Art Now , eclectic in its selection , with discussions of Expressionism , Abstraction and Surrealism . |
| 12 | On June 2 Yeltsin announced an immediate strengthening of Russia 's borders with other Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) member states . |
| 13 | On Jan. 22 Mazowiecki paid an official visit to Prague where he held talks with his Czechoslovak counterpart Marian Calfa [ for Havel 's visit to Poland on January 25 see p. 37192 ] . |
| 14 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 15 | On Dec. 12 Australia proposed an overall reduction of at least one-third in trade barriers to natural resource products , Bangladesh called for special treatment of the natural resource-based exports of the least developed countries ( LDCs ) , while proposals relating to phosphates and fisheries products were submitted by Senegal and to aluminium by the USA . |
| 16 | When the veteran Lambert moved to Fulham in October 1933 Chapman launched a fresh offensive to sign Jimmy Dunne from Sheffield United . |
| 17 | However , in her speech at the Lord Mayor 's banquet in London on Nov. 12 Thatcher made a spirited defence of her own record and expressed her determination to defeat any opponents . |
| 18 | The 1993 Bill takes a cautious step , by proposing an amendment to the effect that a transfer may be found to have occurred ‘ whether or not any property is transferred to the transferee by the transferor ’ . |
| 19 | Beckford 's intentions are not known , but while living quietly there from 1766 or 1767 Clementi pursued a disciplined curriculum of self-study in music and practice on the harpsichord and published his Op. 1 , a set of six sonatas dedicated to Beckford , in 1771 . |
| 20 | In 1720 Boerhaave produced an impressive catalogue of plants in the Leyden Garden , Index alter Plantarum ( 2 vols ) , and under Protea in the Dictionary Miller refers to this work ( he also included it in the bibliography ) . |
| 21 | EXAMPLE The combustion of a 1.6 g sample of methanol in a flame calorimeter resulted in a temperature rise of 7.8 K. When a 12.0 V supply of electricity with a current of 2.0 A was passed through the contents of the calorimeter for 20 minutes , the temperature rose by 6.2 K. Calculate the molar enthalpy of combustion of methanol under the conditions of the experiment . |
| 22 | On May 26 Keating conducted a minor Cabinet reshuffle which saw Richardson 's portfolio filled by Bob Collins , hitherto Minister of Shipping and Aviation . |
| 23 | In Carnegie Hall on November 7th , 1991 Lin played a new concerto by the American composer George Walker , with the New Jersey Symphony conducted by Hugh Wolff . |
| 24 | On June 10 Zenawi criticized the previous regime for accepting a payment in connection with the migration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel [ see pp. 38174-75 , which , he said , " should have been handled as a humanitarian problem " . |
| 25 | In his message to the Havana Non-Aligned Summit in 1979 Brezhnev stressed the Soviet opposition to ‘ the division of the world into military-political blocs opposed to each other ’ . |
| 26 | Each of the 11 winners of our December 1991 Supercrozzle received a luxury Christmas Hamper , to the value of £70 , from the Achiltibuie and Alness Smokehouses of Summer Isles Foods . |
| 27 | On May 10 Kolingba told an extraordinary meeting of the RDC executive committee that multipartyism required a gradual preparation and education of the population and was in no way a guarantee of democracy . |
| 28 | In 1963 Hill defined the representative volume element ( RVE ) in a consideration of general properties of composite materials . |
| 29 | The latest figures presented to the regional flood defence committee on 26 July show a total scheme cost of £58 million and a total net present value of benefits of £56 million , producing a benefit-cost ratio of 0.97 . |
| 30 | At a four-day show trial in May 1963 Wynne received an eight-year prison sentence but in April 1964 was conveniently exchanged for Konon Molody , or ‘ Gordon Lonsdale ’ , the professional KGB spy and member of the Portland spy ring who had been in prison with George Blake . |