Example sentences of "[noun] [num] a [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 30 a draft-dodger died in hospital from a gunshot wound sustained the previous day when paratroopers tried to detain him in Vilnius . |
| 2 | In Trollope & Colls v Atomic Power Construction [ 1962 ] 3 All ER 1035 a contractor commenced work , at the client 's request , before terms were finally agreed . |
| 3 | The government had already been damaged when on July 12 a judge ruled that the Army Commander-in-Chief and former Sandinista leader Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra could face court martial on charges that he had covered up the murder of a 16-year-old youth by his bodyguards in October 1990 . |
| 4 | On July 2 a strike broke out at the Markushegy unit of the Oroszlany coalmines , when miners demanded a wage rise of up to 50 per cent , the dismissal of incompetent managers and a halt to privatization of the mines ; the strike was settled on July 3 when the government acceded to most of the demands . |
| 5 | The arrival of the British had been impressive : on 24 December 1807 a squadron had anchored in Funchal under the command of Admiral Samuel Hood and consisted of four ships of the line , four frigates and sixteen ships for transporting troops , carrying two regiments of infantry and two companies of artillery . |
| 6 | By May 1946 a constitution had been drafted which suited the Communist-Socialist approach to politics , with a strong lower house of parliament . |
| 7 | In mid-February 1990 the Powers announced that German flights to Berlin would also be allowed and on Aug. 5 a plane made the first Lufthansa flight to a Berlin airport since 1945 landing at Schönefeld airport ( on the outskirts of East Berlin ) . |
| 8 | On Aug. 17 a gunman killed two off-duty civil guards in the Basque town of Oyarzun , bringing to 622 the total of apparent ETA victims in 1992 , 18 of them having been killed in the period January to March . |
| 9 | On 30 May 1952 a letter went from Churchill to Ramsey offering him the see of Durham . |
| 10 | Even in the secular legislation of Chlothar II a king had the right only of veto . |
| 11 | In Tropwood AG of Zug v Jade Enterprises [ 1982 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 232 a charterparty allowed the owners to withdraw the ship " failing punctual and regular payment of hire … or on any breach of this charterparty " . |
| 12 | In May 1847 a Deputation travelled from Stockport to London to request the addition of French , German , and the higher classes of Mathematics : " the most respectable branches of the inhabitants of the Town would willingly contribute towards the additional expenses this enlarged system of Education would create . " |
| 13 | On May 28 a bomb exploded in a crowded West Jerusalem market , killing one elderly Israeli and injuring nine other people . |
| 14 | In May 1951 a committee undertook to decorate the church with flags and bunting on the occasion of the visit to the town of Queen Elizabeth ( now the Queen-Mother ) and the Princess Margaret . |
| 15 | In January 1915 a shell struck the base of the dome , toppling the fifteen-foot-high statue which hung horizontally above the town until 1918 , becoming known as The Leaning Virgin . |
| 16 | After a meeting of EC Foreign Ministers and WEU Defence Ministers also on Sept. 19 a communiqué stated that " no military intervention is contemplated " but proposed that the WEU should explore ways of supporting the activities of EC monitors to make their contribution more effective . |
| 17 | However , on May 19 a judge had issued warrants for the arrest of the former guerrilla movement 's general staff in connection with the 1985 attack . |
| 18 | On July 24 a bomb exploded outside the offices of the Istanbul Chamber of Industry causing some damage but no casualties . |
| 19 | On Sept. 20 a meeting began between the SNC , the five permanent members of the UN Security Council , a representative of the UN Secretary-General and a representative of Indonesia , one of the co-chairs of the 19-country Paris International Conference on Cambodia ( PICC ) . |
| 20 | In November 1986 a referendum backed the establishment of a one-party state , the sole party being the Central African Democratic Rally ( RDC ) set up in February 1987 . |
| 21 | Adolf Hitler was at a military hospital in Pasewalk in Pomerania , recovering from burns to his eyes after a British gas attack at Ypres , when on 10 November 1918 a pastor brought him news of the armistice . |
| 22 | Second , Nicholas could hardly afford to send troops abroad unless he could be sure that all was well at home — but at the end of November 1830 a coup took place in Warsaw . |
| 23 | In October 1934 a letter appeared in the press appealing for men to send postcards to its author , the Revd Dick Sheppard , affirming the statement : ‘ we renounce war and never again , directly or indirectly , will we support or sanction another . ’ |
| 24 | On Oct. 18 a bomb exploded outside the Congress building in Bogotá ; another in Medellín on Oct. 24 killed five police officers and wounded 14 civilians . |
| 25 | In Tel Aviv on Oct. 11 a Palestinian drove a stolen van into a group of soldiers waiting at a road junction , killing two and wounding 11 others . |
| 26 | In Dew v. Parsons , 2 B. & Ald. 562 a sheriff demanded a fee for the issue of a warrant which was larger than that to which he was in law entitled , and received payment from an attorney who was in ignorance of the law . |
| 27 | Outside No 26 a crowd had gathered . |
| 28 | On Nov. 25 a programme agreed on by the coalition partners was announced in the National Assembly . |
| 29 | On Nov. 27 a warning had been issued to the government by France , the United Kingdom and the USA , to hand over two men suspected of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , in December 1988 , and to co-operate in bringing to trial suspects in the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 [ see p. 39215 ] . |
| 30 | Canon Selwyn ( 1872 ) 36 JP 54 a question arose regarding the validity of the Irish Church Act 1869 . |