Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have raised the VAT threshold every year since 1979 and reduced the small companies rate of Corporation Tax from 42 per cent to 25 per cent . |
| 2 | Over 100 soldiers , supported by tanks , invaded the National Assembly on Oct. 7 and forced the 29 delegates present ( out of a total of 110 ) to elect the little-known Joseph Nerette , 67 , a Supreme Court judge , as interim President . |
| 3 | The government , anticipating the unrest , had declared a state of emergency in 11 provinces on Aug. 7 and placed the armed forces in direct control of Peru 's 11 main cities , including Lima and its port of Callao , suspending all constitutional guarantees . |
| 4 | Although the Law Society took the steps to establish a Professional and Public Relations Committee in 1971 and employed the public relations firm , Saatchi and Saatchi , to improve its tarnished image , it did not seek to present the profession on any sort of economic/productivity basis . |
| 5 | Leeds were European Cup Winners ' Cup finalists in 1973 , European Cup finalists in 1975 and won the Old Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971 . |
| 6 | SURREY rallied in the final quarter to beat Essex Metropolitan 59–55 and retain the English Counties League title on Saturday . |
| 7 | Just ring before 14 December 1992 and answer the following questions : |
| 8 | After her five Wimbledon singles wins , she retired from lawn tennis at the age of twenty-one , and , turning her talents to golf , she became a semi-finalist at the Open Championship in 1898 and 1899 and won the British Women 's Golf Championship in 1904 at Troon . |
| 9 | Okay , I expect everybody 's noticed seven and noticed the legal proceedings that followed that . |
| 10 | It is a 15 inch gauge railway opened in 1990 and connects the two towns of Wroxham and Aylesham over a distance of some nine miles . |