Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The CARICOM heads of government meeting held at Kingston , Jamaica , on July 31-Aug. 2 granted associate CARICOM membership to the British Virgin Islands [ see p. 37648 ] . |
| 32 | On the other hand , a fish oil supplemented diet , rich in the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid , was shown to reduce the mucosal generation of prostaglandin E 2 while enhancing that of prostaglandin E 3 . |
| 33 | But only one out of 115 interviewed last year found work compared with one out of 52 the previous year . |
| 34 | According to a 1988 census about one-quarter of Brussels ' population of 9,927,000 comprised foreign nationals , including 135,000 from Maghreb countries ; many thousands more north Africans were known to have arrived illegally since then . |
| 35 | The floating of the pound in 1972 symbolized this turnaround in favour of sustaining expansion regardless of the inflationary cost . |
| 36 | Thirty-one showed positive results after four weeks and everyone reported that their skin felt smoother , more supple and better toned . |
| 37 | Other important achievements as a result of the mission programme included the confirmed appointment of 31 overseas agents and distributors with a further 39 under consideration and 2 confirmed joint ventures with a further 14 under consideration . |
| 38 | In September , 53 faced unfair trials before a military tribunal , held in camera . |
| 39 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Defence Ministers who met in the Scottish resort of Gleneagles on Oct. 20-21 approved fresh guidelines for " a reduced reliance on nuclear weapons " and agreed to draw up firm plans by December for international peacekeeping operations , first outlined in May and June [ see pp. 38937 ; 38986 ] . |
| 40 | In the southern outskirts of Khartoum government troops on Dec. 22 killed 13 inhabitants of a shanty-town who were resisting its demolition . |
| 41 | Leith in 1895 shipped 500,000 tons but was over 2.0m tons by 1911 . |
| 42 | Then 75069 returned light engine to Machynlleth . |
| 43 | SL2 , who got to No 2 with On A Raggatip ; and SUNSCREEM , who enjoyed a Top 30 hit last month with Love U More . |
| 44 | At energies between E 1 and E 2 bound elliptic orbits are possible . |
| 45 | If we take a large firm to be one employing more than 1000 and a small one less than 100 , the latter in 1985 employed 15 times as many people in the private sector as a whole and five times as many in manufacturing . |
| 46 | The narrower FT 30 lost 24 points on the day to 1,866.2 . |
| 47 | It would be possible to take the view that clause 12 covered all costs , charges and expenses whether or not improperly incurred . |
| 48 | Those released on March 2 included military officers and civil servants who had been accused of taking advantage of the campaign for the December 1990 municipal elections to organize an attempted coup against the regime of President Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya . |
| 49 | ( 1984 ) found that the cross-section benefit elasticities as estimated from the Family Expenditure Survey data for 1972–7 exhibited considerable variability depending on how the relevant income variables were constructed . |
| 50 | A meeting of the 16 Land ( state ) governments on March 12 demanded constitutional changes reinforcing their role in EC decision-making as a precondition for their approval . |
| 51 | More than a hundred kids were wounded and more than 30 died last year . ’ |
| 52 | More importantly , however , the remains overlay burnt material , while the make-up levels on Site 2 contained Antonine pottery , thus demonstrating that the building(s) were part of an overall design reshaping the town centre , which might also have included the first phase of the defences . |
| 53 | Article 22 contained similar provisions concerning financial assets . ] |
| 54 | A report produced by the investigating commission and published on May 12 contained strong criticisms of the company responsible for erecting the stand , Sud-Tribune of the Bastia soccer club , which owned the football team , and of local government officials . |
| 55 | Only six out of 21 case notes contained objective evidence of asthma and 12 contained clear evidence of an alternative cause of death ( myocardial infarcation ( 7 ) , epileptic fit ( 1 ) , lung cancer ( 1 ) , lobar pneumonia ( 1 ) , chronic obstructive airways disease/emphysema ( 2 ) ) . |
| 56 | April 20 and 22 brought two evening missions , with all aircraft airborne by 1620 and 1630 hours respectively . |
| 57 | The FT 30 eased 26.2 points to 1,796.7 . |
| 58 | Federal Prime Minister Ante Markovic ( a Croat ) on Sept. 30 accused Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic of using the JNA to advance Serbia 's aims . |
| 59 | By the end of the nineteenth century it was fairly obvious that the dialogue was not materializing , as the social and political events of the 1880s had made clear , and the employers ' counter-attack on trade unions in the 1890s gave little hope for any kind of reconciliation . |
| 60 | Antall on May 22 presented this team , and his outline " programme of national renewal " , to the Országgyülés , which on the following day approved both simultaneously , by 218 to 126 with eight abstentions , and the government was then duly sworn in . |