Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , these surpluses or PSDR ( Public Sector Debt Repayment ) shrank rapidly after 1989 as government revenue suffered in the wake of the most protracted period of recession since the Inter-War years . |
| 2 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |
| 3 | On this measure , in average terms , Britain was not at a disadvantage after 1967 since exchange rate adjustments compensated for higher costs [ National Institute , 1972 ] . |
| 4 | Thus , assuming that a single 65W tube costs £2 , the expected hourly depreciation cost over its expected lifetime is 0.027ph-1 ; this compares with the energy consumption of 0.21ph-1 if electricity is charged at 3.2pkWh-1 . |
| 5 | The Irishman will stay at the City Ground until the summer of 1995 unless Forest are relegated . |
| 6 | The National Health Insurance Act of 1911 provided access to a general practitioner for all insured workers , male and female , but not for their dependants , who were mainly women and children . |
| 7 | After an education in France , Wharton briefly sat as an MP in the Parliament of 1680 as member for East Grinstead , before a hotheaded pro-Exclusionist speech forced him to lie low . |
| 8 | Apart from the stray references to external events in the letters between Helen and Edward , the incomplete Fiction is a fuller guide to the decisions Thomas was making between Easter 1895 and the summer of 1896 than reinterpretation of the Morgans novel . |
| 9 | £444 Cost of two weeks in Majorca for a family of four as holiday firms slash their prices for summer '93 |
| 10 | He replaced Mike Stout at the end of 1988 after Stout began to suffer hearing difficulties . |
| 11 | The view across the Longdendale Valley in the summer of 1988 as No. 47102 waits to return to Manchester whilst in charge of the demolition train . |
| 12 | Ted captained the Palace through the first half of our 3rd Division championship season of 1920–21 before injury prevented him playing , and then in our opening games in Division Two . |
| 13 | Pressure on sterling continued into the first quarter of 1990 as inflation and interest rates increased , and on March 19 sterling hit a record low against the West German mark at DM2.71 . |
| 14 | Total personal income leapt by six per cent during 1992 while inflation averaged around four per cent . |
| 15 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 16 | Pretreatment with TCV-309 before caerulein infusion significantly reduced the increase in pancreatic weight ( Fig 2 ) , protein content ( Fig 3 ) and plasma concentration of amylase ( Fig 4 ) but all these parameters were significantly ( p<0.05 ) raised above the controls obtained from rats infused with saline . |
| 17 | After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid . |
| 18 | After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid . |
| 19 | She had gone to Moscow in 1943 as correspondent for the Observer and the Yorkshire Post , and from this experience wrote Soviet Ballet ( 1945 ) , which helped to introduce contemporary Russian dancing to the British public . |
| 20 | After 40 years ' service with the Wedgwood Group , Sir Arthur retired in 1986 as chairman and managing director , a post he held for nearly 20 years . |
| 21 | With J&J money up-front , T&L 's research budget rose from £175,000 in 1977 to £2.5 million in 1980 as sucralose proceeded . |
| 22 | The second part of the catalogue broadens out to encompass Beardsley , Burne-Jones , Henry Moore and a Gainsborough , purchased in 1925 while Meder was keeper of the collection . |
| 23 | It begins in 1933 as physicist Leo Szilard ( Michael Tucker ) escapes Berlin just before the Nazis seal off the city . |
| 24 | Platelet activating factor , first described in 1972 as platelet activating factor has been identified as 1–0-alyl-2–0-acetyl- sn -glycero-3-phosphocholine . |
| 25 | A downturn is expected in 1993 since activity is anticipated to be lower as the company does not expect these contracts to be repeated . |
| 26 | Of the non-participating countries ( i ) the Greek government announced on July 12 , 1990 , its intention to do so in 1993 if government fiscal measures were successfully implemented ; ( ii ) the Prime Minister of Portugal , Aníbal Cavaço Silva , was known to favour early participation in the ERM although there was division within the government as to the exact timing ; and ( iii ) the United Kingdom government had declared its intention to join the ERM but had not given any commitment as to when . |
| 27 | In Flanders , an area in which French and English interests clashed over issues which were strategic , economic and legal , Edward I intervened in 1294 as king of England in defence of the count , Guy , then in dispute with Philip IV of France . |
| 28 | Robert Passelewe was a Household clerk who after 1228 had been attached to the Poitevin party , shared in their downfall in 1234 , and was restored to favour in 1236 ; his appointment in 1246 as justice of the Forests south of Trent therefore brings the administrative history of the forest into line with that of the Household and the great Departments of State . |
| 29 | Clifford retired in 1975 as branch administrative officer at Southampton Branch , and his hobbies in retirement have included the composition of poems and aphorisms . |
| 30 | Later on , Bauthumley became a minor corporation official at Leicester , in 1658 as serjeant-at-mace , and in 1667 as library keeper . |