Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 2 | A recent ad for follow-on milk , quoting from an article in the British Medical Journal , stated that cow 's milk given at six months caused ‘ subclinical but appreciable gastro-intestinal bleeding in about a third of children . ’ |
| 3 | IF so many countries can pledge troops to help relieve the crisis in Somalia , why is Britain 's support limited to two planes ? |
| 4 | In his showmanlike way , Chapman wanted Highbury to become the greatest club ground in the world , a new kind of football mecca , with a big crowd capacity and as futuristic in design as the new West Stand , built at his suggestion to replace the old wooden stand erected in 1913 . |
| 5 | This book is a translation of a Russian text completed in 1986 which has been partially revised , rearranged and updated . |
| 6 | A thank you letter received from St. Clare 's Hospice for a cheque given for two hundred and eighty pounds . |
| 7 | One mile to the south of the village lies Sand Hall , a large brick building erected in 1774 . |
| 8 | Such thoughts dated from the support given in 1889 to the Danish seamen 's strike . |
| 9 | The kind of economic support given from one migrant to the next includes : assistance with the fare ; assistance in finding work ; a temporary home ; personal encouragement and moral support whilst the new migrant is adjusting to Britain . |
| 10 | N-plant leaked for five hours |
| 11 | Several of these bits may be set in an instruction , in which case all the specified functions are carried out ; the order in which functions are performed is fixed by having each function assigned to one of four timing points within the basic instruction cycle . |
| 12 | She kept the money hidden in 22 , Church Row so that her husband should not see it . ’ |
| 13 | Gregory and Lock were arrested at Bangkok 's Don Muang international airport on February 6 when police said they found a condom filled with 150 grams of heroin . |
| 14 | Lock and a companion , Sandra Gregory , 27 , from Aberdeenshire , were arrested at Bangkok 's Don Muang airport on 6 February after police found a condom filled with 150 grams of heroin in the woman 's body . |
| 15 | North-west of this , another large building examined in 1924–5 extended over at least 52 m ( 170 ft ) at an oblique angle to the prevailing internal morphology . |
| 16 | Had my own heart broken by one inquisitive straight lady , way back in my desperate youth . |
| 17 | Leonora thrust out a foot clad in one of the new rubber-soled shoes he 'd bought her . |
| 18 | The Pontormo , a Mannerist masterpiece painted in 1537 , belonged to the late Chauncey Stillman and had long been on loan to the Frick collection in New York . |
| 19 | He suffered a jaw broken in two places which had to be wired up for five weeks . |
| 20 | The principal methods of investigation are a desk study ( in part completed during 1983-84 ) and a series of semi-structured interviews with policy-makers in Britain , France and the Federal Republic of Germany . |
| 21 | The results of the Museum 's study of the Archaic statue undertaken in 1990 will be presented , comprising studies of the marble used , the weathering of its surface , the traces of tool marks and the remains of encrustation , together with analysis of the figure 's proportions and the indications of torsion in the head and feet . |
| 22 | I LEFT Ladislav near to the Staroměstské náměsti ( Old Town Square ) , to the north side of which stands the statue erected in 1915 on the five-hundredth anniversary of the burning for heresy of Jan Hus , one of the founders of the European radical tradition . |
| 23 | After the battering the Abadan refinery received in 1980 , Iran 's other refineries were attacked in the course of Iraq 's periodic operations against ‘ economic targets ’ , in an effort to create shortages within the country and accentuate the need for fuel rationing . |
| 24 | m of iodine-131 , and the NRPB Windscale accident report suggests a collective dose of 1.33 million man-rems from drinking milk contaminated with iodine-1.31 . |
| 25 | From the first Protestant Archbishop Thomas Cranmer under King Henry VIII , all the Protestant Archbishops were educated at Oxford or Cambridge and a majority taught at one of those universities . |
| 26 | In France the cabinet du ministre in the foreign ministry included from 1886 , under a number of slightly varying titles , a section which translated and analysed articles from the foreign press : by 1907 it was drawing on 175 newspapers for this purpose . |
| 27 | But in the very early 1970s the dangers of infantile obesity and dehydration were well publicized and the rate of tiny babies in Sheffield being fed unmodified milk powder dropped from 90 per cent to 0 per cent . |
| 28 | On April 21 the IAEA requested further details of stocks of weapons-grade uranium located at two research reactors south of Baghdad . |
| 29 | Research International says that the proportion of farmers under 35 dropped from 39 to 14 per cent between 1987 and 1991 and the number with under 10 years ' experience dropped from 10 per cent to four per cent . |
| 30 | ‘ As I got to the platform , there was the driver surrounded by three other BR staff watching him pluck the bird . |