Example sentences of "[num] [coord] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is 30 and an optician as well as a professional National Hunt jockey . |
| 2 | Clare , who is 30 and an art tutor , attended the presentation ceremony at The Mall Galleries , London last week . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He obtained a BA in mathematics ( thirteenth wrangler ) in 1881 and an MA in 1885 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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) ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The British branch employs a fund raising team of eleven and an information staff of the same size . |
| 19 | Therefore , formal protests were made when Hitler announced compulsory military service in 1935 and an increase in military forces , in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles , and when Italy invaded Abyssinia . |
| 20 | Employed first by Edward III , he rose under Edward the Black Prince [ q.v. ] , and became his secretary in 1375 and an executor of his will in 1376 . |
| 21 | A member of the SPD in 1923-27 , and of the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ) in 1927-46 and an exile during the Nazi period , he rejoined the SPD in 1946 , and was prominent in drafting the reformist 1959 Godesberg Programme , which eventually brought the SPD to power . |
| 22 | The British Journal of Educational Psychology published an article on the negative correlation between fertility and intelligence by Gerald O'Hanlon in 1940 and an attack by Charlotte Fleming on the assumption that socio-economic level and intelligence were highly related in 1943 The Times Educational Supplement reviewed Maguiness 's book Environment and Heredity without querying the causal assumption that intelligence was mainly inherited . |
| 23 | The form of the book , written from the imagined perspective of the year 2034 , is a review of developments since 1870 and an analysis of the surprising troubles of 2033 provoked by the populist movement — a ‘ strange blend of women in the lead and men in the rank and file ’ . |
| 24 | Scott-Kilvert 's other interests included membership of the European-Atlantic Group , becoming a committee member in 1984 and an executive editor of its Journal . |
| 25 | Himself a minister from 1964 and an advocate of devaluation , Jenkins contends that " if they [ Wilson and Callaghan ] could get American support for what they wanted to do anyway this could be regarded as serving a British interest and , from the point of view of the 1966 election , even a Labour Party interest " . |
| 26 | The deposition of the king was followed by a reversal of the forfeitures of 1322 and an annulment of the grants that the victors of Boroughbridge had made to themselves and their supporters . |
| 27 | Official sources detailed an attack on a garrison at Bardai , followed by an attack on officials conveying military funds on Sept. 18 and an attack on the Zoumri garrison on Sept. 20 . |
| 28 | NWSF , the former 43–21709 and an A–20J–15–DO was owned by William Farah , but was rarely flown . |
| 29 | The oligonucleotide ML1 represents the first 48 nt of the coding strand of the 5' U3 region of HIV-1 with three nt altered ( underlined ) in order to introduce two restriction digestion sites such that the oligonucleotide contains an Hae III , an Ava II and an EcoRV site as indicated |
| 30 | Uganda became independent in October 1962 and an education commission report followed in 1963 . |