Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sex Discrimination Act 1986 made it unlawful for an employer to discriminate between men and women as regards retirement age . |
| 2 | Secondly , until 1926 , at law ( as opposed to equity ) no limited interests in chattels personal could be created — the notion of estates had no application to chattels personal till the Law of Property Act 1925 made it possible to create an entailed interest in them . |
| 3 | Yet Labour had a double advantage with the electors : its leaders had served with complete loyalty in the coalition , and had thereby secured valuable experience of government , mostly , to be sure , on the home front ; but the party in Parliament had also by its single rebellion in 1943 made it clear to all that it was dissatisfied with the coalition 's progress towards social reform . |
| 4 | The Bakufu 's inability to demonstrate military superiority over Choshú0 late in 1866 made it apparent to all that the Tokugawa no longer possessed the force majeure on which their power ultimately depended , and with their opponents allied with each other under the banner of imperial rule the Tokugawa 's fate was sealed . |
| 5 | A greater distance from the events of 1680s made it easier for people to develop a nostalgic longing for the return of the exiled Stuarts as the solution to the nation 's ills . |
| 6 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 7 | The long period of Conservative government from 1951–64 made it easier for Labour MPs , released from electoral inhibitions , to press for abolition . |
| 8 | However , the steadily increasing weight of express trains in the 1890s made it obvious that more powerful locomotives would be required . |
| 9 | The official results announced on Dec. 30 made it apparent that the second round of voting scheduled for Jan. 16 , 1992 , would almost certainly produce a FIS government . |
| 10 | 1972 gave him thirty starts : in FI , F2 , Touring and Endurance . |
| 11 | Still , 1972 left him bankrupt : financially and in terms of a drive for 1973 . |
| 12 | His third round of 67 left them all for dead , and with 11 holes to go for the Open he was ten shots ahead of the field . |
| 13 | That was unthinkable to the British generals , even though Napoleon III made it clear to Lord Palmerston that he did not intend to usurp the command and so the problem would not arise . |
| 14 | Faint light from the open doors of Five , Lower Six and Upper Six made it possible to see , shedding pale blurry patches on to the corridor floor . |
| 15 | I can tell my hon. Friend that four out of five of those elderly patients have accepted their check-ups and that nine out of 10 found them useful . |
| 16 | Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey . |
| 17 | Only in 1941 did he first hold significant office in the Orange Order , reaching the highest rank in 1949 on his election as imperial grand master of the Grand Orange council of the world . |
| 18 | Colin and Eamon Meehan claimed that they were not guilty of trying to buy weapons in the US for the Provisional IRA because their internment by the British in the 1970s drove them insane . |
| 19 | It is not surprising , therefore , that Edward II felt it necessary to deluge the pope and the cardinals with letters informing them of his circumstances , hopes and needs : in the course of his reign he sent nearly eighty letters a year to the cardinals ; in the first year of John XXII 's pontificate no fewer than 306 royal letters were addressed to members of the college of cardinals . |
| 20 | Well , my thirty pounds seventy gave me sixty , thirty pence or something . |
| 21 | Breaks of 106 , 68 and 55 put him 4–0 ahead before Murphy managed to claim his first frame . |
| 22 | The UK airshow season for 1992 gave us all the things we love : |
| 23 | As the 1970s progressed we all began to see the error of our ways . |
| 24 | THE spontaneous and knowledgeable applause which greeted Charlie Swan when he rode into the winners enclosure at Navan in December 1992 said it all . |
| 25 | The onset of World War I made him responsible for the design and erection of explosives plant for the Ministry of Munitions , as well as plants for heavy chemicals , dyestuffs , intermediates , and synthetic drugs which , until that time , had been imported from Germany . |
| 26 | Charles I made her this out of guilt at the wrong done to her husband , Robert Dudley , son of Elizabeth I 's Earl of Leicester , whom a conspiracy had robbed of legitimacy and titles . |
| 27 | To begin with I watched him all the time . |
| 28 | This committee was still to report when the Council in 1958 felt it necessary to reiterate its interest in a common market . |
| 29 | The Scots finished their 50 overs on 145 for five , with Donald Orr not out 32 , off 54 balls , and Jim Govan unbeaten on 31 , off 43 balls , figures which compare more than favourably with Alastair Storie , whose 25 took him 82 balls . |
| 30 | Ian Baker-Finch returned a 68 and jumped into the lead after a second round 66 put him three strokes ahead of Nick Faldo , Lee Trevino and Ballesteros . |