Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janet Rogers will become the acting Treasurer until the Annual General Meeting in March 1980 when a new Treasurer will be elected . |
| 2 | The round table held its 16th and final session on March 12 when a draft constitution was discussed . |
| 3 | This protracted crisis began on 17 March 1808 when a mob of soldiers , peasants , and palace grooms forced Charles IV to dismiss Godoy , found hiding in terror in a rolled-up carpet ; two days later another mob forced Charles IV to abdicate in favour of his son , the Prince of Asturias who became Ferdinand VII . |
| 4 | Preparations for unification of the two Yemens , which had received major impetus from the summit meeting in December 1989 following publication of a draft joint constitution [ see p. 37138 ] , moved forward with the opening of the border ( announced on Jan. 22 following a three-day meeting at Prime Ministerial level ) and a visit to Aden , capital of South Yemen ( the People 's Democratic Republic ) , by the President of North Yemen ( the Yemen Arab Republic ) , Col. Ali Abdullah Saleh , on Feb. 18 . |
| 5 | This will be looked at in Chapter 7 where a number of commercial DBMS are investigated . |
| 6 | We discussed in Chapter 7 how a camera might be used in the classroom to record student performance , and in Chapter 9 the recording of teacher performance as part of a teacher-training programme . |
| 7 | In the worst IRA attack on civilians for five years , eight Protestant workers were killed and five injured on Jan. 17 when a massive bomb destroyed their van at Teebane Cross . |
| 8 | A fuller discussion of the balance of effect is , therefore , deferred until chapter 5 when a greater range of consideration can be entertained . |
| 9 | We saw in Chapter 3 how a number of major morphological features , notably orogenic mountain belts and island arcs , coincide with convergent plate boundaries ; a superficial glance at the Earth 's morphology might even suggest that all significant sub-aerial topographic features are confined to such boundaries . |
| 10 | A new National Council of Ministers was sworn in on Jan. 13 ; its predecessor had been dissolved on Jan. 3 following a decision to reduce the number of ministries from 25 to 16 as part of a rationalization of the civil service . |
| 11 | Yes , yes I use the M four quite a bit and I suppose I 'm so used to that I do n't mind it . |
| 12 | The first clear evidence that the unrest in Kashmir had adversely affected bilateral relations came on Jan. 14 when a spokesman for the Pakistan Foreign Office expressed " deep concern over the deteriorating situation in the Indian-occupied Kashmir " . |
| 13 | Ipswich3 Newcastle2 IT IS still mathematically possible for Ipswich to miss out on a place in the Premier League next season , but with five games left against teams from the bottom eight only a fool would bet on it . |
| 14 | Things came to a head on 30 January 1971 when a NICRA march in Derry , rendered illegal by Faulkner 's blanket banning of all marches the previous August , found its exit from the ghetto blocked by British soldiers , including the Parachute Regiment . |
| 15 | ( See e.g. Condon v Basi [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 453 where a standard of reasonable care was applied to participants in a football match . ) |
| 16 | Joint communiqués were signed on the establishment of diplomatic relations ( i ) with China on Sept. 30 following a visit to Beijing by a Brunei delegation on Sept. 8-11 ; and ( ii ) with the Soviet Union on Oct. 1 in New York . |
| 17 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 18 | The grand alliance of OSI became public in May 1985 when a meeting of 20 computer companies , dominated by US rivals of IBM , met in conference and established the Corporation for Open Systems . |
| 19 | The United States space programme suffered a serious setback in May 1991 when a congressional committee voted to reduce to $100,000,000 in the current fiscal year the projected $2,000 million budget for the Freedom space station , the construction of which was crucial to further manned missions to the moon and one to Mars , which President George Bush stated should be achieved by 2019 , the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing . |
| 20 | CHINA : Huchin Togos , a schoolteacher , and Wang Manglai , a Mongolian-language specialist , have reportedly been detained without charge or trial since May 1991 following a crackdown by the regional authorities against two organisations accused of ‘ instigating ethnic division ’ . |
| 21 | The miners ' action , based on demands for higher wages , better conditions and changes in the national political leadership , only came to an end on May 10 when a decree was issued transferring the control of the mines in the Russian Federation to the RFSFR government [ see p. 38204 ] . |
| 22 | The resumption of trade with Ukraine , suspended since March 1 [ see p. 38828 ] in a dispute over the price of Turkmen gas , was announced on Sept. 26 following a meeting between Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Konstyantin Masik and Turkmenistan 's President Saparmurad Niyazov ; Ukrainian radio reported that Ukraine would pay transport costs for the gas in addition to the price of 3,000 roubles per cubic metre . |
| 23 | The fatal accident occurred on 5th December 1898 when a fall of earth trapped George Robinson against a tipping wagon , breaking his back . |
| 24 | The emerging feelings bubbled to the surface in the unlikely setting of the Route 66 pub in Darlington on Friday , February 7 just a few days after they met . |
| 25 | It was a pursuit which , with savage irony , took her across Lawrence Road , scene of her last attack in December 1991 when a youth punched her hard in the face . |
| 26 | Kurds in northern Iraq formed their first government on July 4 following a general election in May [ see p. 38934 ] . |
| 27 | And some have been blown off the face of the earth in massive bomb attacks such as Teebane in Co Tyrone where seven workmen perished in January 1992 when a land mine exploded under their bus . |
| 28 | Belgium announced a freeze on loans to Zaïre on May 25 , 1990 , following Belgian press reports that some 50 students died on May 11 when a unit of the presidential guard suppressed anti-government demonstrations at Lubumbashi University in the south of the country . |
| 29 | A total of 261 people were killed on July 11 when a Canadian McDonnell Douglas DC-8 carrying Nigerian Moslems back to Sokoto after their Haj pilgrimage , crashed near Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , shortly after take-off . |
| 30 | She won one victory in January 1981 when a palpable ‘ wet ’ , Norman St John-Stevas , was removed as Leader of the House ( where he had been a conspicuous success ) , while younger men like Leon Brittan and Kenneth Baker were promoted , the latter having been one of Heath 's campaign managers in 1975 . |