Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority .
2 Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running .
3 Rather than speaking of the seeds of ideological doubt sown in Nizan 's mind , it is more appropriate to envisage 1934 as a necessary stage in Nizan 's deepening awareness of social reality ; the gradual abandonment , in other words , of a stylised and exaggerated picture of reality , and a progressive movement towards a recognition of the unpredictability and complexity of the social world .
4 Edward Stanley Baker , who died at Great Dunmow , Essex on March 15 at the age of 81 , played 32 matches for Worcestershire in 1933 and 1934 as an amateur wicket-keeper with 40 victims .
5 It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer .
6 Hussein was treated in hospital in Amman on June 11-13 for an irregular heartbeat .
7 Several quote 70 as the upper age limit for voluntary and statutory committees and the like .
8 Ian Woosnam fired a two-under-par 70 as the rain-hit Malaysian Open got underway in Kuala Lumpur yesterday .
9 Skipper Arjuna Ranatunga ( 76 ) and Hashan Tillakaratne ( 43 ) then steadied the ship , adding 92 for the fifth wicket .
10 Applied to problem P1 of Section 8.2 , it gives x 2 l = 7 , x 4 l = 1 , x 43 = 3 , x 45 = 1 and x 46 = 4 , which has a cost of 67 compared with 92 for the initial BFS given in that section .
11 A miner 's resting heart rate can be between 40 and 60 beats a minute , compared with about 70 for a typical male .
12 Beck had a final round of 70 for a 12-under par total of 276 , but it was a tight finish , particularly when he bunkered his second shot behind the 18th green .
13 The demand for places continued to grow : in 1952 there were 200 applicants for the 29 Senior places , 55 for the 10 in the Junior School ; in the following year 310 for 44 Senior places ( every so often , three forms were admitted instead of the usual two ) , 70 for the 10 Junior .
14 NICK FALDO was scotched on the rocks but toasted a scintillating 70 for the halfway lead in the £1.8 million Johnnie Walker World Championship here yesterday .
15 Joining Rhenania in 1971 as a Forwarding Manager in Heilbronn , he became Manager of Spendition Schneider in 1984 .
16 With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket .
17 Built in 1934 for the infamous 1936 Hitler Olympics , when the black hero of America , Jesse Owens , smashed the formidable sprint opposition of Germany , the stadium had withstood the Allied bombings during the war and became a symbol of a new Germany when Berlin was split in half by the Wall .
18 As it happens , the concrete evidence about marriage in the " 1910 sample " analysed in Chapter 6 ( those women in the trade in 1910 ) very largely relates to women who were aged about 18–28 during the Great War , and it could reasonably be argued that the war played such havoc with the marriage chances of this generation that it will have contained an unusually high proportion of women who never married .
19 whitewashed West Indies in the one-dayers and were then routed 4–0 during the main business of that summer .
20 But the show did give UK users a first chance to see Borland 's Paradox for Windows , Lotus 's Freelance Graphics 2 and its revolutionary new Windows spreadsheet , Improv ( see page 97 for a full review ) .
21 The award , worth £20,000 , is given to ‘ a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding June 1992 ’ and was granted by a jury consisting of Nicholas Serota , director of the Tate Gallery , Marie-Claude-Beaud , director of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain , Robert Hopper , director of the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Sarah Kent , art critic of Time Out magazine and Howard Karshan , representative of the patrons of New Art .
22 Six fifty for the top three then then down the scale to nine to twelve is four hundred and fifty .
23 Given his vision of the Church , it is easy to categorize Pius XII as a theological conservative .
24 More than any other landmark , the Brandenburg Gate , erected in 1794 as a triumphal arch , has come to symbolise the division between East and West .
25 Palmer , who has n't won since last season 's Asian Classic in Bangkok , came home in 32 for an impressive 68 , while Haeggman had five birdies and an eagle in his 67 .
26 The name of the Russian General Suworow keeps coming up in this region because of the marches made by the army he brought up from Italy into Switzerland in 1799 during the Napoleonic Wars , forcing the Gotthard Pass against bitter French resistance , but later driven to retreat back up the Muota valley when the French blocked his path at the passage of the Schlattli bridge .
27 Sheep entries set a new record , and topped 500 for the first time .
28 Without tailing his futures position , Roy must bear the additional cost of financing the payment of variation margin of ( 53 500 - — 53 000 ) × 1905 = £952 500 for the next three months , that is , £952 500 × 0.02411 = £22 965 .
29 Meanwhile disturbing evidence had begun to accumulate about the relatively poor performance of children of Afro-Caribbean and Asian origin in schools ( see Tomlinson , 1983 , pp. 27–59 for a useful review ) .
30 To accommodate the different types of housing required , the Committee recommended a range of densities : from 30 persons per acre for suburban development to 100 persons per acre for town centres , rising to a maximum of 120 for the largest cities .
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