Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artist for this year was Helen Chadwick whose exhibition Of Mutability held at the ICA in 1986 led to her nomination for the Turner Prize in 1987/ The critic selector was Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton , formerly editor of Artscribe International . |
| 2 | Local planning authorities ( county councils in this case ) are required by s.7(3) ( a ) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 to include in their structure plans , ‘ measures for the improvement of the physical environment ’ , whilst s.11(3) ( a ) of the above Act , a less demanding provision , states that they , ( usually district councils in this case ) shall include in a local plan such measures as the authority thinks fit for the improvement of the physical environment . |
| 3 | When a woman in her early thirties moved into her council flat she was still working , so she bought a fitted carpet and a freezer . |
| 4 | The reasons for this phenomenon are varied : the tightening bonds of serfdom and the greater degree of social regimentation introduced by Peter the Great meant that a number of previously innocent practices ( tree-felling , salt-gathering , trespass , begging , vagrancy , and so on ) were criminalized and punished with hard labour and exile ; popular protest against the proliferating powers of the state in the form of minor revolts , mass insurgencies ( for example , Bulavin , Pugachev ) , large-scale banditry and escalating rates of petty crime were similarly dealt with ; the abolition of capital punishment for criminal offences in 1753 led to its replacement with ‘ civil execution ’ ( public flogging and mutilation followed by perpetual katorga ) ; and laws passed in 1766 and 1769 changed the usual place of penal servitude from Rogervik and other locations in European Russia to the silver mines and factories around Nerchinsk . |
| 5 | Eventually Owen was appointed Superintendent of the natural history collections , and in 1881 presided over their move to the new building in South Kensington . |
| 6 | It was this solution which was incorporated into the working of the 1885 act in its final form , when the new Conservative government dropped the contentious clauses extending police powers of search and arrest . |
| 7 | 2 Look through your list for words that rhyme . |
| 8 | The current planning target for 1.4.94 is 7569 compared with our existing strength of 7900 . |
| 9 | Out of the eighty cases , thirty three have been dealt with in the following manner — 23 sent to Homes in Plymouth and London ; 1 sent to service in London , where she is doing well , 5 married and doing well ; 2 returned to their parents ; 1 provided with employment as a machinist and doing well ; 1 with children sent to the workhouse . |
| 10 | When their secondment did come to an end , 22 returned to their former jobs , 7 continued their secondments , 14 moved to another employer and 7 entered entirely new jobs . |
| 11 | The Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt had sent a crisp 10s note for her train fare and expenses , and that sum would adequately cover those . |
| 12 | ‘ To the 40,000 or so employees , the further 50,000 employed by their distributors , and some tens of thousands more employed by their suppliers I would say that I am delighted that Rover is part of British Aerospace . ’ |
| 13 | On 14 December 1542 , James V died in his splendid royal bedchamber at Falkland , the beauty he himself had created no longer enough to pierce the malaise of his profound melancholy . |
| 14 | When the mob of Hut 2 fell from their bed bunks and went out into the blackness for Exercise , Holly was with them . |
| 15 | Mel Gibson was born in America in 1956 , but at the age of 12 emigrated with his family to Australia . |
| 16 | Mel Gibson was born in America in 1956 , but at the age of 12 emigrated with his family to Australia . |
| 17 | 2 Think about your journey as you go through the tunnels and caves . |
| 18 | 2 Think about your role and how you will behave . |
| 19 | The Byelorussian Communist Party on Dec. 12 elected as its first secretary Anatoly Malofeyev , who succeeded Yefrem Sokolov . |
| 20 | A dose of 5 µmol/l prostaglandin E 2 tested in our laboratory induced secretion of water , Na + and Cl - similar to 25 µg cholera toxin , but without affecting HCO 3 - absorption . |
| 21 | Now here are the great eight selected by our judges to take part in the Grand Final at London 's swish Sheraton Park Tower on Friday , September 18 . |
| 22 | I think she is a size eight looking at her feet they look bigger than my fives . |
| 23 | After the previous year saw a fall in the number of cases involving disputes with members of the Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation handled by the Investment Ombudsman , the number increased by over 50 per cent in 1992/3 according to his annual report . |
| 24 | The London surgeons , however , had only 938 beds regularly available ( an average of 19.2 per team ) compared with 988 ( 32.4 per team ) outside London , but they treated 32.7 patients per bed compared with the 26.7 treated by their colleagues outside London ( 49% and 42% , respectively , were elective admissions ) . |
| 25 | You 've only got one six to go with your nine |
| 26 | It had Arnsat-1 painted on its side , which was a bit of a waste of paint since stars ca n't read . |
| 27 | This centralizing mission the bureaucrats of Charles III found beyond their strength and they bequeathed its fulfilment to their liberal successors . |
| 28 | On 18 November 1699 King William III dined at his house in Richmond and , on 23 June 1700 , in recognition of his services , the king knighted him at Hampton Court . |
| 29 | The most marked feature of Lewis 's own emotional and intellectual life as the autumn days grew shorter and the year 1929 drew to its close was the development of his friendship with J. R. R. Tolkien . |
| 30 | By contrast , two soldiers and a Timorese policeman had on June 1 received prison sentences ranging from eight to 17 months , while on June 6 two army officers , the last of 10 charged for their direct involvement in the massacre , had received sentences of one year and eight months respectively . |