Example sentences of "[num] [be] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Newham , there are 519 young people without a job ; 58 say that they are not interested , so that means that 451 are seeking a YT place . |
| 2 | Our priorities in 1993 are to establish a regional organisation in the Far East and to continue the identification and pursuit of major multi-discipline prospects . |
| 3 | The original purposes of the RSG system introduced in 1981 -82 were to provide a fairer and more objective method of grant distribution and to eliminate previous incentives to high spending . |
| 4 | Stage 2 is to mark a centreline , and in Stage 3 the kite is folded back on itself and a line of stitches is run 18mm or 3/4in either side of the centreline to form a pocket for the spine dowel . |
| 5 | The RSFSR , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic , on June 12 was declared a sovereign state by its Congress of People 's Deputies ( constituted in May — see pp. 37459-60 ) . |
| 6 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 7 | He came home from a night 's fishing with the news that King George V was having a review of the British fleet , and would sail through the Channel to Chatham at the head of his Navy , leading them in a dreadnought . |
| 8 | The Council of Legal Education Trinity Bar Examination 1989 Additional Pass List The following candidate has been awarded a III been awarded a III Class Pass in the Bar Examination 6017 Andrews , JR ( I ) The Council of Legal Education Michaelmas Bar Examination 1989 Overseas Pass List The following candidates have passed an Individual Section to complete the Bar Examination . |
| 9 | The first things Dipesh Shah did when he became managing director of BP Solar in March 1991 were to set a target for the next two years and to articulate it to everyone in the company . |
| 10 | Seven of the 26 subjects known to have non-insulin dependent diabetes were receiving insulin , 13 were taking sulphonylureas , and six were taking a specific diet . |
| 11 | One resort seizing the bull by the horns is little old Adelboden , which for 1991 is building a big new gondola to link two of its smaller ski areas to its major one . |
| 12 | Rolf Ricke , also in the Südstadt at Volksgartenstrasse 10 is presenting a ‘ social piece ’ by the young New York artist Ben Kinmont from 8 May until 10 June . |
| 13 | Already , one school leaver in 10 is offered a training voucher — a means to encourage a sharp improvement in the quality and quantity of training available to that age group while increasing the choice and opportunity open to young people . |
| 14 | The 14-month old MP-1 is reduced a further 32% in price to $75,000 . |
| 15 | The Statute of Quia Emptores 1290 gave free power of alienation inter vivos to all tenants in fee simple ; and the effect of the Statute of Wills 1540 and the Statute of Tenures 1660 was to give a free power of testamentary disposition . |
| 16 | In return Henry III was granted a peerage of France . |
| 17 | This story is continued in Chapter 13 , where 1991 was to see a close UN interest being taken in Iraq 's latter activities in this field . |
| 18 | The election of the Thatcher government in 1979 was to see a new approach to the management of the civil service . |
| 19 | Being on the dole in 1979 was becoming a very common occupation . |
| 20 | Talking of scary moments , Manc popsters THE AWESOME THREE are encountering a few of those since releasing their ‘ Possessed ’ single . |
| 21 | Indeed , two of the three are offering a consultancy service to local authorities to help them to retain control of the service . |
| 22 | All three were fined a total equivalent to US$25,000 million in compensation damages to the state and were to be held in solitary confinement at the naval base on San Lorenzo , an island off the port of Callao near the capital , Lima , where they had been tried . |
| 23 | The Three were negotiating a trilateral free-trade zone to be implemented over a 10-year period , which it was hoped could be signed on July 1 . |
| 24 | The policy behind Article 35 is to protect a third party from undesired obligations and to make that party 's consent the basis of any such obligations . |
| 25 | Just four days after completing a 30-hour journey from Edinburgh to Darwin they were expected to overcome a nine-hour time difference and temperatures in the 90 's to beat a Northern Territories Invitation XV . |
| 26 | Despite his earlier links with the parliamentary cause ( he was MP for Maidstone 1654–9 ) he pursued a moderate royalist line at the Restoration and in 1662 was made a baronet . |
| 27 | One of the first decisions of the reformed Parliament elected in 1833 was to appoint a Royal Commission staffed ‘ by eager young intellectuals of Whig opinions ’ to inquire into the municipal corporations ( Webb and Webb 1963 : 141 ) . |
| 28 | In 1303 he accompanied Edward I to Scotland and in 1305 and again in 1307 was appointed a justice of one of the trailbaston circuits . |
| 29 | FOUR couples who have lived in adjoining houses in Radcliffe on Trent , Notts since 1952 are throwing a champagne party to mark 30 years of being ‘ the best neighbours in Britain . ’ |
| 30 | BT , which has a 95% share of the British market , and MCI are investing a combined $1 billion to launch a new joint-venture company ; BT will hold a 75% stake in the new firm , MCI the remainder . |