Example sentences of "[num] [conj] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change became necessary when the Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Sept. 30 that an agreement reached in August 1990 [ see p. 37661 ] was unconstitutional . |
| 2 | Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo announced on July 22 that an agreement which the government had signed with the " Paris Club " group of creditor countries would allow Argentina to restructure part of its official debt . |
| 3 | Some earlier critics of the deprave-and-corrupt test had suggested a return to a test based on ‘ outrage ’ , with the Longford Report proposing in 1972 that an article might be deemed to be obscene ‘ if its effect , taken as a whole , is to outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large ’ . |
| 4 | Recall from Chapter 12 that an allowance has to be made for the fact that a given sum of money to be received in the future is worth less than the same sum received now . |
| 5 | It was reported on Feb. 2 that an emergency session of the Moldavian Supreme Soviet Presidium on Jan. 31 had declared a six-month moratorium on " all political events which are likely to cause interethnic strife " . |
| 6 | Chile had already signed an outline bilateral trade agreement with the USA in October , and the US administration had announced on Dec. 2 that an embargo on military arms sales to Chile was to be lifted , due to government 's decision to transfer the case of Orlando Letelier from the military to the civil court . |
| 7 | He is 30 and an optician as well as a professional National Hunt jockey . |
| 8 | Clare , who is 30 and an art tutor , attended the presentation ceremony at The Mall Galleries , London last week . |
| 9 | However , an improvement in the economic environment is still expected in 1993 and an end to the decline in total construction work available , so bringing about an expected modest growth in our workload towards the end of 1993 . |
| 10 | One thing is clear none of this OO stuff is imminent in Oracle as SQL 3 is pencilled in for 1995/6 and an object storage manager will most likely follow that . |
| 11 | He obtained a BA in mathematics ( thirteenth wrangler ) in 1881 and an MA in 1885 . |
| 12 | With a list of accolades under her no doubt stylish belt — including the prestigious British Designer of the Year Award in 1985 and an MBE in 1987 — she has certainly had an illustrious career . |
| 13 | Work done in 1881 included the addition of a gallery and the church was restored in 1879 and an addition to the churchyard was consecrated in 1901 . |
| 14 | It was however accepted by the Court of Appeal in 1980 that an injunction could properly be granted even if the defendant was based in England if in the circumstances there was a danger of the assets being removed , and this was put beyond doubt by section 37(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 which provides : |
| 15 | It is therefore for the domestic courts to decide whether , in any particular case , the agreement does so clearly infringe Article 85 that an exemption is very unlikely to be granted by the Commission , even if it has been notified to the Commission , or whether there is no infringement of Article 85 and therefore the question of an exemption under Article 85(3) does not come into play . |
| 16 | Their arrival had been delayed for a fortnight after Gen. Farah Aydid claimed on July 7 that an aircraft with UN markings bringing food aid had also carried from Nairobi military equipment and counterfeit money for his rival , Somalia 's transitional President , Ali Mahdi Mohammed . |
| 17 | But it is not until the 1840s that an awareness , not only of the gulf between rich and poor , but of its dangerous significance in the lurid light of revolution , comes into being . |
| 18 | An execution is deemed completed by the sale of the goods seized or by the making of a charging order under s 1 of the Charging Orders Act 1979 and an attachment of debt is completed by the payment of the debt ( s 346(5) ) . |
| 19 | Clough was educated at Rugby School and St John 's College , Cambridge , where he obtained a first class in the natural sciences tripos in 1874 and an MA in 1878 . |
| 20 | The tax increases included a surcharge of 5 percentage points on income tax payments from January 1991 and an increase of 2 per cent in VAT on all goods and services , raising the figure to 18 per cent , effective April 1991 . |
| 21 | A statutory meeting was convened on 26 November 1991 and an application for an interim care order under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 was brought before the justices on 29 November 1991 . |
| 22 | The Thai Army commander , Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon , visited in March 1991 and an agreement was reached to withdraw all troops of both countries from disputed border areas . |
| 23 | These complications are illustrated in Figure 5.1 and an example of variance spectra also conjectured by Church ( 1980 ) is also illustrated in Figure 5.1 and introduces a theme which will be resumed in chapter 8 ( p.161 ) . |
| 24 | It was planned in 1725 and an engraving by Sutton Nicholls shows it at the north side of the garden , 300 feet long with forty-one windows on the ground floor . |
| 25 | ( 1979 ) produced isopleths of precipitation acidity for selected periods which revealed increasing acidity between 1955–6 and 1975–6 and an enlargement of the area affected by acid precipitation in eastern North America . |
| 26 | AS SENIOR Civil Servants go , Nick Montagu , 45 and an Under-Secretary and principal establishments officer at the Department of Social Security , has one of the biggest burdens in the business on his shoulders . |
| 27 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , under pressure from the separatist Parti Québecois ( PQ ) , the Liberal provincial government of Robert Bourassa had already committed itself to a referendum on secession by Oct. 26 unless an agreement had been reached on a new constitutional structure . |
| 29 | Computer hardware , if it is sold , will be subject to the Sale of Goods Act 1979 whereas an agreement for specially written ( " bespoke " ) software will be within the scope of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 . |
| 30 | Laura 's life was saved by the 15-hour operation on June 10 after an appeal raised £350,000 , including £150,000 from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia . |