Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cinema-going was also increasing , with 101 million tickets the highest figure since 1980 sold last year . |
| 2 | Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion . |
| 3 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 4 | On 21 January the Communists numbering up to 3000 made another assault on the Secretariat and were again repulsed . |
| 5 | The course of agricultural and industrial development between 1919 and 1935 produced abundant evidence that Japan was closely tied to the fluctuations of the world economy and highly constrained in the resources at her disposal during a period of growing protectionism . |
| 6 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 7 | Staining with ECCD-2 revealed several subpopulations of KC ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 8 | A potential failure of contraception had been recognised by 171 patients : 93 reported a split or leaking condom ; 13 reported a condom coming off during intercourse ; 32 admitted inconsistent use of condoms ; 32 reported forgetting to take contraceptive pills or taking antibiotics concurrently with the pill ; and one reported a late injection of medroxyprogesterone acetate . |
| 9 | 8.4 REPORTED SEXUAL ASSAULTS |
| 10 | Ten years ago , only one young person in eight entered higher education . |
| 11 | The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus . |
| 12 | Reacting to what the government claimed was an unsuccessful military coup against the regime of President Idris Déby on Feb. 21 , the Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Hamat on March 2 asked foreign diplomats to ensure that their staff did not " intervene in the internal political affairs of Chad " . |
| 13 | The men were close personal friends and after Disraeli 's resignation in 1880 , Salisbury , as he had then become , took over the leadership of the Conservative Party , and in 1885 became Prime Minister as well as Foreign Secretary . |
| 14 | Early in the 1950s , Richard Titmuss pointed out that the average working class woman marrying in her teens or early twenties during the 1890s experienced ten pregnancies and spent fifteen years in pregnancy and nursing compared with an average of four years so spent by her counterpart in the years following World War II . |
| 15 | Senior officials of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in Finland on May 12 agreed that consent from the FRY was not needed to approve decisions on Yugoslavia and its former republics [ for April CSCE meeting on FRY see p. 38848 ] . |
| 16 | The government on Dec. 22 announced further emergency measures to deal with the deepening energy crisis [ see also p. 38431 ] . |
| 17 | After victory over China in 1895 made territorial control a reality , the haphazard search for political and economic influence ( direct or indirect ) of earlier years became a systematic one , in which emulation of Western imperialism was seen as both practicable and desirable . |
| 18 | Mix with 90g of sweetcorn , 2 diced red peppers and 3 tablespoons of Weight Watchers from Heinz Mayonnaise . |
| 19 | ‘ the ATB does not promote itself well enough ’ ( 20 to 30 made this comment ) |
| 20 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 21 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 2 reported serious unrest in the strategic northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif . |
| 22 | 8.2 REPORTED PHYSICAL VIOLATIONS |
| 23 | Around 700 suffered serious injuries and 6,488 received minor cuts and bruises . |
| 24 | The Act of Parliament permitting the construction of Tramways Nos. 1 and 2 received Royal Assent on 11 August 1903 . |
| 25 | Group 2 comprised seven children with coeliac disease ( mean age 9.0 , range 4–15 years , girl:boy 1.2:1 ) in remission , on a gluten free diet for at least one year . |
| 26 | Protests on April 2 attracted 100,000 participants , the largest demonstrations since those in 1981 against the South African rugby tour ; in Auckland , effigies of Bolger and Richardson were burned . |
| 27 | In addition local authorities such as the LCC in the 1890s drove new roads through notorious slums in order to demolish them . |
| 28 | The Procurator General , Aristides Junqueira , on Nov. 12 filed criminal charges of " passive corruption and illegal association " against suspended President Fernando Collor de Mello , in connection with a multi-million dollar corruption scandal involving federal funds . |
| 29 | He leads a team of some 53 noted Russian computer scientists . |
| 30 | His complaint under Article 12 received short shrift . |