Example sentences of "[num] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ii ) has had a bankruptcy order made against him or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors or has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or is or has been a director of a company in respect of which an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 or a winding-up order has been made or in respect of which a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed or which has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 or in respect of which a person has been appointed receiver or administrative receiver ; or |
| 2 | Picks : either a Tortex 74 or a Clayton 74–77 . |
| 3 | So I mean you do n't want to go di di down to a size eight or a size ten , cos I think you 'd feel |
| 4 | It was announced on Feb. 22 that a government inquiry into the position of former East German Prime Minister Lothar De Maizière , who had been obliged to resign from the German Cabinet in December 1990 because of alleged connections with the Stasi [ see p. 37905 ] , had failed to prove that De Maizière had spied for the Stasi . |
| 5 | Uses and trusts the Common Law will not recognize ; wills of land , it has decided , are void ( unless established by local custom — it was not till 1540 that a statute was passed giving power to leave land by will ) . |
| 6 | Radio Australia reported on Nov. 12 that a director of China 's Public Security Bureau had informed a visiting Australian human rights delegation that there were 4,000 prisoners currently in prison in China for crimes of subversion and counter-revolution . |
| 7 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |
| 8 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 9 | There had been reports on April 2 that a meeting to discuss the formation of a more representative government had broken down in disagreement between Crown Prince Saad and representatives of a coalition of merchant groups , Islamic parties and former members of parliament . |
| 10 | Radio Bangladesh reported on April 2 that a number of the refugees were dying in their camps in Bangladesh as a result of " diarrhoea , acute respiratory problems , gastric and gynaecological diseases " . |
| 11 | Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years . |
| 12 | It is a hardy , thrifty , long-lived mountain breed which was first recognised in 1856 ; a breed society was formed in 1895 and a herdbook established in 1926 . |
| 13 | In addition the National Free Church Council supported a peace mission by W. R. Cremer , Radical MP for Haggerston from 1885 to 1895 and a Wesleyan . |
| 14 | Yuri Skokov , Secretary of the Security Council , was considered sympathetic to the nationalist cause ; Chernomyrdin , 54 , Soviet Minister of Gas in 1985-89 and a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1986-91 , was seen as representing the industrialists ' lobby , while Viktor Kadannikov , a relatively unknown figure , was manager of a large car plant ; deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko was a supporter of Gaidar . |
| 15 | 4.32 If a plaintiff 's loss of wages has resulted in his getting an income tax rebate , the amount of the rebate must be taken into account against his loss of wages ( Hartley v Sandholme Iron Co [ 1975 ] QB 600 ) . |
| 16 | they were married in December 1421 and a son was born at Windsor , but before the boy was nine months old , Henry V died in France . |
| 17 | A 170mm unit is used in the 415 and a 200mm in the 425 . |
| 18 | When he died in 1980 , the brothers decided to buy the landscaping division and concluded the deal almost four years later , when Waterers was losing money on a staff of 12 and a turnover of £400,000 . |
| 19 | Robert Hughes is 12 and a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 20 | ( 57 ) A laser , 8 , 12 and a modulating FET 9 , 10 , 11 are integrated . |
| 21 | A pH of around 7–7.5 and a temperature of 82–84°s ; should also be aimed for . |
| 22 | There was other evidence that , with a moderate ( 2 to 3 per cent ) rate of economic growth , the demographic trends would not impose pressures on the public purse until 2020 and a crisis would occur only if the economy failed to grow by 2 per cent or more . |
| 23 | Er one time the locksmiths had a rise from ni eighteen , twenty to twenty-one a man , it was a big rise but the locksmiths ' union they altered it from to twenty and a half , twenty-one , twenty-one and a half , three rises before you went from a lad to a man 's raise , you know . |
| 24 | The report by the National Association of Estate Agents follows the annual review by the Halifax Building Society , which predicts a 15 per cent increase in sales in 1993 and a rise in prices during the second half of the year . |
| 25 | Numbers are limited and requests for tickets have to be received by 31 July 1993 and a £10 deposit is required . |
| 26 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
| 27 | The Poor Law was the most comprehensive official source for the relief of poverty , administered in England and Wales as laid down by the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and a succession of later amendments , in Scotland and Ireland according to different statutes and rather different principles . |
| 28 | The calculated minimal sample size was eight subjects in each group , with an alpha risk of 0.05 and a beta risk of 0.10 . |
| 29 | Sarre ( 1981 ) points to the quite marked fluctuations in numbers throughout the 1970s ( although he recognizes the data limitations ) which reached a peak in 1972 and a low in 1975 , climbing back to about 155,000 in 1979 ( table 5.4 ) . |
| 30 | Lord Street in the Twenties , after the centre poles had been removed , with ex-Company rack 134 and a Blackpool bus on local route 11 . |