Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun sg] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 In contrast , shares in British & Commonwealth at one stage dropped 25 per cent to 82p after unfounded rumours that Department of Trade and Industry inspectors had raided the offices .
2 In inside out patches , channel activity increased fivefold during depolarisation , ion substitution experiments confirmed that the channels were highly selective for K , and channel activity was almost abolished by removal of Ca 2 or addition of 5 mM Ba .
3 He took his BA in 1728 and MA in 1734 .
4 W. Sidebotham had already taught Music since 1888 and S. Balston , French and German since 1897 , both Pemberton appointments .
5 This critic may have been thinking of a well-known passage in one of the Nativity sermons in which Andrewes keeps up a series of puns in Hebrew , Latin and English for three pages on the word Emmanuel : ‘ If it be not Immanu-el , it will be Immanu-hell … .
6 The latter had been described as a pewterer and metaller in 1666 ( see The Boke off Recorde of Kirkbie-Kendall , ed. by R. S. Fergusson ) later to become the well beloved " first and modern mayor of the Burgh " ( 1684 ) , and re-elected in 1708 .
7 Rey became assistant in 1776 and chief in 1781 .
8 Knott did his best with another fifty but it was all over with eighty minutes to spare ; all out 203 and victory by 231 runs .
9 The newspaper Nepszabadsag also claimed that Ulrike Meinhof , one of the leaders of the West German Red Army Faction group , had stayed in Budapest for a while prior to her arrest in 1972 and death in 1978 .
10 Docklands Express was also shortened by William Hill to 12-1 from 14-1 and Coral to 12-1 from 20-1 .
11 High density polyethylene sales rose from 2.2 to 2.4m tonnes in 1989–90 and polystyrene from 1.5 to 1.6m tonnes .
12 Charles was a cardinal at 22 and archbishop at 26 , a spectacular rise to prominence , ( although probably helped by his uncle being Pope Plus IV ) .
13 On Oct. 25 , 1989 , Japan had agreed to reschedule over $396,000,000 with Poland paying principal and interest in five years after a five-year period of grace .
14 After Coleman 's death , Sewell was appointed Principal and Professor on 23 July 1839 .
15 The meeting will , again , take place in our Riverside Headquarters in Keynsham and be preceded by drinks at 12.45 and lunch at 13 .
16 I have also lifted the catch , both on the outside and inside of one of the windows . ’
17 Would you tell them that I 'll be giving them a ring between half past six and quarter past seven .
18 He admitted theft of 320 kgs of feed on February 10 and theft of 1.79 tonnes of feed before his arrest .
19 Having lived in Deptford all his life , Albie knew every jabber , snorter , speed-freak and pot-head in sixteen square miles .
20 Frustrated at the persistent refusal of the MPs to listen to their grievances , at the end of 1648 and beginning of 1649 the army staged a military coup , ejecting the most prominent Presbyterians from parliament , publicly executing the king , and imposing a military regime upon the country .
21 They had two sons , Thomas , who died at Leghorn , and Edward ( c .1681–1734 ) , who carried on the family business , becoming free of the Masons ' Company in 1702 and master in 1719 .
22 These voltages are connected up in series along the length of the fish so that , in a strongly electric fish such as an electric eel , the whole battery generates as much as lamp at 650 volts .
23 He was appointed chevalier of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau in 1948 and CBE in 1951 .
24 Majorie gained B.Litt in 1948 and D.Phil in 1976 , and expresses gratitude to Somerville for enabling her to return to Oxford to work for this .
25 She once again showed a maturity way beyond her 16 years and put in a fantastic bike of 53.16 and run of 32.48 to win in a time of 1.39.13 .
26 Immunostains for ET-1 and big ET-1 and expression of ET-1 mRNA were most prominent in airway epithelium and type II pneumocytes , particularly those lining areas of young granulation tissue .
27 For thirty-one years he was a fellow of the Linnean Society , serving on the council in 1921–4 and 1927–32 , being vice-president in 1931–2 and president in 1927–31 .
28 ‘ It is obvious that responsibility for 100 years of decline of UK plc must be laid at the door of the Establishment which purported to guide the affairs of the nation , ’ Peter Morgan told them in a speech which commanded wide attention .
29 Fox was appointed OBE in 1920 and CB in 1938 , and was elected FRS in 1943 .
30 He entered Brasenose College , Oxford , on 16 May 1696 , graduating BA in 1700 and MA in 1704 .
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