Example sentences of "[num] and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The art nouveau artists who turned against the conventional gem-set ornaments of the 1890s and looked instead to nature for inspiration are represented by Lucien Gautrait . |
| 2 | From the early part of the nineteenth century , until absorbed in the new social purity movements of the 1880s , the Society for the Suppression of Vice ( founded in 1802 and known universally as the Vice Society ) remained the Victorian 's basic legal force against the obscene , and its work demonstrates the often close relationship between private vigilance and public authorities . |
| 3 | By a respondent 's notice the bank notified its intention of contending that the judge 's decision should be affirmed on the additional ground that he should in any event have exercised his discretion under rule 12.12 and set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that it was not a proper case for service of the originating application out of the jurisdiction ; and in particular because ( i ) the bank had at all relevant times no presence in , and/or sufficient connection with , England and Wales ; and/or ( ii ) the judge should have applied and/or had regard to the provisions of R.S.C. , Ord. 11 and , had he done so , should have concluded that the claims raised did not fall within the ambit of the order and that leave to serve out should thus be refused . |
| 4 | The Labour Party 's 1,300-member central committee convened in Tel Aviv on March 12 and voted overwhelmingly to give the party 's executive committee ( comprising its 39 Knesset members and a further 87 senior officials ) authority to take whatever action it thought necessary to advance the peace process . |
| 5 | I remembered the fatuous winter of 1939–40 and laughed too . |
| 6 | Yesterday he was favourite again at 2-1 and won impressively . |
| 7 | These changes , in the piecemeal fashion in which the Act is being implemented , will come into force in September 1993 and have already led to what Adrian Randall , finance director of the Cancer Research Campaign , calls , ‘ some howlers ’ . |
| 8 | The chief monument in the country is the Cathedral of Pécs ( Fünfkirchen ) , rebuilt about 1150 and restored mainly in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | He qualified with Price Waterhouse in 1972 and rose meteorically , becoming a partner just six years later . |
| 10 | The medieval bridge , built in 1392 and demolished c. 1856 , was a little distance south-west of the modern road bridge and is recorded as having been preceded by an earlier bridge on the same line ; it had ten waterways set between stone piers and a timber superstructure , a method of construction commonly used by Roman engineers . |
| 11 | Six to eight weeks after fitting Eradicators before sand filters , the pH dropped to 7.5 and stayed there , even when new consignments of Japanese Koi were introduced . |
| 12 | There are county players who average 35–40 and do exactly the same in Tests . |
| 13 | When you have finished row 1 , move the piece of paper down to reveal row 2 and knit accordingly . |
| 14 | The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds . |
| 15 | The LDDC decided last week to support the plan for a commuter airport that could be in operation by 1985 and handle more than 100 aircraft movements every day from the port by 1990 . |
| 16 | He hastily unfastened the shoulder holster , too , and laid it on the table , then crossed to the fridge , found a can of 7-Up and drank deeply . |
| 17 | None the less , when Simon returned to England in April 1263 and raised once more the standard of the Provisions of Oxford , Peter joined him . |
| 18 | Since Dawn had taken $7.38 million in 1979 and done well worldwide , United Film Distributors ( UFD ) was willing to put up a fairly large budget for Day of the Dead by Romero 's standards . |
| 19 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 20 | Miller moved into the flat in 1979 and remained there until the writ for possession in July 1989 , more than once offering to pay rent . |
| 21 | Alice , his sister , was born in 1695 and died apparently in 1708 . |
| 22 | As we leave 1991 and go forward into 1992 ‘ Duty of Care ’ is an expression you will hear more and more . |
| 23 | Nurse Geeson said she had been a staff nurse on the children 's ward for ten years up to 1991 and had only come across four or five occasions when children suffered heart or respiratory attacks . |
| 24 | He was arrested on 25 November 1991 and held overnight in a police cell in Urosevac . |
| 25 | The event has been brought forward a year from 1991 and moved also from France to West Germany . |
| 26 | The first change , the move to theism , happened in 1929 and coincided more or less directly with the death of his father . |
| 27 | The engine was built at Swindon in 1929 and worked all over the Great Western before withdrawal in 1964 . |
| 28 | The ‘ Countryman ’ undertakes a complete run departing Alresford at 13.10 and returning about 15.00 supplying mince pies and sherry along the way . |
| 29 | A general strike called by the UDF-affiliated Podkrepa trade union began on Nov. 26 and spread quickly as a result of sympathetic media coverage ( a strike and sit-ins by students protesting against the government had been under way since Nov. 5 ) . |
| 30 | I am 26 and have just lost my virginity after a year-long relationship . |