Example sentences of "[num] and [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bourequat brothers — three French citizens who had been imprisoned without charge for over 17 years — were pardoned by King Hassan II on Dec. 30 and returned to France on Jan. 3 . |
| 2 | A package of reforms to the criminal code , designed to improve Turkey 's human rights record , was approved by the Grand National Assembly early on April 12 and signed into law by President Turgut Özal a few hours later . |
| 3 | The new arrangements will be monitored throughout 1993 and reviewed in detail in December 1993/January 1994 . |
| 4 | Teddies were first developed in Germany in the early 1900s and named in tribute to former American president Teddy Roosevelt who refused to shoot a defenceless small bear while out on a hunting trip . |
| 5 | Products of primer extension reactions were cleaved by I- Sce III and electrophoresed in parallel with enzymatic sequence reactions using the same radioactive primers and template . |
| 6 | The West German leader , far from seeking to slow down the process leading to monetary union , said the treaty revision should be agreed by the end of 1991 and put into force by the time the EC single market was completed at the end of 1992 . |
| 7 | The World Bank consultative group on aid to Sri Lanka met in Paris on Feb. 7 and ended with pledges of assistance worth US$825 million for 1992 ( three-quarters of this in project aid and the rest in balance-of-payments support ) . |
| 8 | This was built for United Air Lines as DC-3A-197B NC 18942 in April 1948 and served with series of US operators until it found itself in the Sudan ( as N8044 ) in 1976 , before going to South Africa and joining Caprivi Airways in 1978 as ZS-KEX . |
| 9 | McArthur 's Head at the south end of the Sound of Islay was built in 1861 and converted from oil to incandescent in 1907 . |
| 10 | The first international conference on aid to Mongolia , held in Tokyo on Sept. 5-6 and attended by delegations from 14 countries and five international organizations , agreed to grant $155,000,000 for emergency needs over the winter , which included food , medicines and spare parts . |
| 11 | Discovered by mining companies in 1971 and drilled by BGS in 1976 . |
| 12 | The latest edition of the JCT Agreement for Minor Building Works was issued in January 1980 and reprinted with changes in October 1981 . |
| 13 | Berwick was attacked by the Scots in 1312 , and regained in 1318 ; besieged by Edward II in 1319 ; taken by the English in 1333 ; burned by James Douglas in 1405 ; ceded to Scotland in 1461 and returned to England in 1482 — where it remains , wrongly in my opinion , to this day . |
| 14 | After negotiations with the administration the Senate approved on Sept. 27 anti-drugs funding of more than $3,000 million as part of the fiscal 1990 transportation appropriations bill , which was cleared by Congress on Oct. 31 and signed into law on Nov. 21 . |
| 15 | The rising intensity of immediatism began with Mrs Heyrick 's pamphlet of 1824 and developed in step with the conviction that amelioration was being blocked by slave-owners . |
| 16 | The hell of making a film out of anything was lovingly rehearsed in Ready When You Are , Mr McGill , a play by Jack Rosenthal , first shown in 1976 and repeated on Saturday in Channel 4 's TV Heaven slot . |
| 17 | The Privy Council , however , reconvened Parliament for an emergency session on Feb. 18 and pushed through amendments to the Nationality Act , the Passport Act and the Constitution itself , in order to provide a retroactive legal basis for the sale ; denied its legal foundation , the court case was dismissed . |
| 18 | After two weeks of intensive political manoeuvring , a compromise package of $1,100 million was passed by Congress on June 18 and signed by Bush on June 22 . |
| 19 | It was the great age of patriotic songs : ‘ Rule Britannia ’ was written in 1740 and ‘ God Save the King ’ was first published in 1742 and gained in popularity during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 . |
| 20 | David Nimley , had reportedly left the Liberian capital , Monrovia , on Nov. 5 and gone into exile in Lagos . ) |
| 21 | This chance is increased by 10% for each point of Strength the character has over 4 and reduced by 10% for each point of Strength the character has below 4 . |
| 22 | Predictably serious negotiations ensued , if not for peace then at least for the ransom of King John ; but several years of intermittent diplomacy and warfare passed before a treaty was concluded at Brétigny in 1360 and confirmed at Calais in 1361 . |
| 23 | She is a founder member of the Medau Society , qualifying as a Medau teacher in 1958 and taught for ILEA for 20 years and now greatly enjoys being a class member . |
| 24 | The design , roof beams , decorated columns , and funerary angels so much resembled a chapel that , after the station was closed , it was demolished in 1958 and removed to Canberra to be re-erected as a church . |
| 25 | The comment was reportedly prompted by conciliatory statements made by government ministers during an international oil conference held in Isfahan on May 27-29 and attended among others by representatives from US oil companies . |
| 26 | The membrane pellet was dissolved in 2.5%Triton X-100 and separated by electrophoresis on a 6% SDS-polyacrylamide gel . |
| 27 | It was also the case in the very unmilitary Dutch Republic ; and in the Habsburg territories the Kriegskommissariat set up in 1657 and reformed by Haugwitz in the 1740s was made up largely of civilians . |
| 28 | He was descended from a Flemish family , who came to London as merchants in the reign of Charles I and settled at Northwick in Gloucestershire . |
| 29 | The provision was part of the appropriations bill for the Commerce , State , Justice and Judiciary Departments which was then approved by the Senate on Nov. 8 and signed into law on Nov. 21 . |
| 30 | A British businessman , Roger Cooper , 55 , was released from prison on April 1 and returned to London on April 2 . |