Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rev Tiit Salumäe , Director of the Information Department with the Church of Estonia , has received the 1991 information award of the Church of Finland . |
| 2 | The Radio Production Centre ( CEPRA ) in Cochabamba , Bolivia , has received the 1992 Silver Condor award from the Communication Commission of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference and the Bolivian Radio Education organisation in recognition of its outstanding work in the service of the Bolivian people . |
| 3 | Scottish stalwart Ann Packard has received the 1993 Chairman 's Award for services to BAIE . |
| 4 | The drama of the past few days in Kabul has highlighted the two central problems of modern Afghanistan : one is the difficulty of finding a balance between the dominant Pathans and the array of other ethnic groups , Tajiks , Uzbeks , Hazaras and others who occupy the northern and western parts of the country ; the other is the tension between modernising élites in Kabul and the largely tribal rural population . |
| 5 | During a recent promotion , the Great Central Railway has undertaken the 1992 visitors survey and questionnaires were given to visitors and passengers arrival with a closing date of August 7 . |
| 6 | " My heart has joined the Thousand , for my friend stopped running today , " he said to Blackberry , quoting a rabbit proverb . |
| 7 | NOW THAT China has joined the two international copyright conventions , it is worth looking at how the revolution in knowledge dissemination has affected the region . |
| 8 | Indeed , the magazine took the opportunity to address the whole post-1960 transformation : " The elections of 1960 and 1988 are brackets enclosing a period of astonishing transformation — change that has placed the two campaigns in different eras . |
| 9 | The persistence of this balance has placed the two sides in positions in which each is seeking something apparently unattainable . |
| 10 | NEC Corp has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which has placed the A-1 commercial paper rating of the NEC Industries Netherlands BV finance subsidiary on CreditWatch with negative implications , citing intensifying competition from local and international firms in Japan 's personal computer market , creating further pressure on profitability . |
| 11 | For the 16 valve GTi , Rover has given the 1.4 litre K-series engine multi-point fuel injection and , despite the addition of a standard catalyst , it delivers 104 bhp and 94lb of torque at 5,000 rpm . |
| 12 | Benedict , a Californian now based in Hertford , has given the 405 low-volume side-tanks to make the boat less likely to invert and easier to right . |
| 13 | Perhaps the last word should be given to Caroline Moorehead , who has edited the eight volumes of Dame Freya 's letters and deserves to be listened to . |
| 14 | A mystery explosion has trapped the four time-travellers inside the TARDIS . |
| 15 | This chapter has considered the two most natural methods of recognition used by humans — speech and writing . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Ruth Hollinger from Ballyclare High School has won the 1993 Ulster Schoolgirls Championship . |
| 17 | Patrick Taylor has visited the 400 places he describes in the pocket-sized The Gardener 's Guide to Britain ( Pavilion , £9.99 ) . |
| 18 | A turbulent day in the City has seen the hundred shares index closing down fifty-four point six at twenty-three eleven point one . |
| 19 | I feel would never wish to give up or reject feminism , which I see as an insistence on putting women first , an insistence on women 's autonomy and I think that the debates with National Liberation struggles , the debate in the Irish National Liberation struggle has seen the two things as going hand in hand . |
| 20 | Sir Denys said the two new companies would each pay a dividend of not less than 27.5p each in 1993 . |
| 21 | Perhaps the child has said the two syllables to herself — dance + ing — and written them down , rather than visualising the complete word . |
| 22 | In the period since his appointment , he has merged the two companies , their products and the sales force into the single organisation that is in operation today . |
| 23 | As Secretary of State for the Environment he has decided the three towered 19-storey building nicknamed the toast-rack which his department works out of should be demolished . |
| 24 | Bobby Robson has made the three expected alterations to the team that began the 0-0 draw in Sweden last month . |
| 25 | Prosecuting counsel John Nutting has alleged the two men , who were travelling in a red Sierra , were stopped in June last year on the A64 Leeds-York road , North Yorkshire , by Special Constable Glenn Goodman and Pc Alexander Kelly . |
| 26 | LEX Service , the vehicle dealer and automotive components group led by Sir Trevor Chinn , yesterday announced that it has bought the 62 Lucas Autocentres from Lucas Industries for £13 million . |
| 27 | Carl Lewis has called the 100 metres ‘ ten seconds going on ten years ’ . |
| 28 | Using eye-witness accounts , insurance documents and death records , Hughes has reconstructed the eight horrific days of the blitz in his new book , Port in a Storm . |
| 29 | No doubt we shall find out , but what seems to be true of this moment — 1989 , when photography has reached the 150 year point — is that many different kinds of photographic image-making co-exist and ore of equal validity . |
| 30 | It has integrated the two to work together . |