Example sentences of "[num] and [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To book , call Ticketmaster on 01-379 4444 and mention The Independent offer before Thursday 12 October . |
| 2 | Add 256 to the figure on line 2 and enter the resulting figure at line 2 . |
| 3 | Companies must comply with the Companies Act 1985 and display the following information on their stationery : |
| 4 | Sam Torrance was promised a bonus of £20,000 had he emulated his feat in 1985 and holed the winning putt at the Ryder Cup . |
| 5 | The White Wizard ( one of Bash 's predecessors ) originally entered the text-adventure world of Fantasia way back in 1985 and found the well-presented environment a mite too dull for his liking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The inspector calculated the taxpayer 's gain on the basis that the receipt of the Lasmo shares amounted to a capital distribution under s 72(1) , CGTA 1979 and apportioned the allowable expenditure in accordance with the part-disposal provisions of s 35 , CGTA 1979 . |
| 8 | He was elected FRS in 1892 and gave the Croonian lecture in 1896 . |
| 9 | As he was only nineteen and failed the medical test for being colourblind this was impossible . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Belfast helped sink the German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway in 1943 and led the naval bombardment in support of the Normandy D Day landing at Juno Beach . |
| 12 | A conference of the North Korean People 's Council met in July 1948 and approved the proposed constitution . |
| 13 | Lamont now proposed a " substantial switch " from local to central taxation , amounting to about £4,250 million in 1991-92 and reducing the net yield of local taxation to around £7,000 million . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Wade will , of course , always be remembered for one special summer 's afternoon at the All England Club , but she was also world number two in 1975 and won the first-ever U.S. Open in 1968 . |
| 16 | Leeds were European Cup Winners ' Cup finalists in 1973 , European Cup finalists in 1975 and won the Old Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971 . |
| 17 | This compares with an inflow of £6.2 billion in 1990–91 and beats the previous record year of 1986–87 by £1.1 billion . |
| 18 | The frigate , an SKR 815 under the command of Ukrainian Sergei Nastenko and manned by a crew which had sworn loyalty to Ukraine in January , left Donuzla on the Crimean peninsula without permission on July 21 and hoisted the Ukrainian flag . |
| 19 | Leonard Cutts was born on Nov 27 1904 and joined the Kent-based Hodder & Stoughton in 1922 . |
| 20 | SURREY rallied in the final quarter to beat Essex Metropolitan 59–55 and retain the English Counties League title on Saturday . |
| 21 | Just ring before 14 December 1992 and answer the following questions : |
| 22 | Since August 1991 he has been a key member of the Planning Team preparing for the European Summit Meeting at the Palace on 11 – 12 December 1992 and organising the subsequent reinstatement works . |
| 23 | A sponsored walk to aid the preservation fund was held on 1st February 1992 and realised the excellent sum of £200 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Familiar with army ways , Curran served in the Indian Army in India , Cyprus , and Italy from 1941 to 1945 before completing his degree in history in 1946 with a first class in part ii and joining the British Broadcasting Corporation as a talks producer in 1947 . |
| 26 | The tour operator , Sir Henry Lunn , founded the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club in 1902 and began the British passion for speeding down the piste . |
| 27 | Bell acquired it in 1957 and undertook the two-seat conversion . |
| 28 | I like to knit my lace work with 2-ply brushed acrylic ( single stranded ) on tension 5 and follow the 4-ply pattern from the Toyota Pattern Book . |
| 29 | For example , will position the cursor at column 0 of line 5 and print the prompt Name ? . |
| 30 | This affected only a few thousand people , however , and on June 9 there were protests over the restrictions by Israeli employers whose businesses were threatened , forcing the authorities to lower the age limit to 25 and drop the 10-employee rule . |