Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revised budget for 1989/90 showed a deficit of 1,367 million kyats , compared with the planned surplus of 7,000,000 kyats . |
| 2 | Consequently the period after 1979 witnessed a number of major developments with important repercussions for central-local relations . |
| 3 | The reforms introduced after 1905 promised a solution to the rural poverty and land hunger which had brought peasant unrest to the surface in that year . |
| 4 | And the tendency towards appointing natives rather than Iranians as satraps after 400 gave a chance to humbler men who could rise as their masters rose ; Mausolus M 9 shows the satrap appointing two Karians to office in Xanthos . |
| 5 | United States trade figures for the second quarter of 1971 showed a deficit for the first time . |
| 6 | The first such trips in the spring of 1980 represented a victory over the KGB . |
| 7 | There were 70 candidates for the post , and the shortlist of eight included a sergeant , an inspector , and a superintendent of police , and a sergeant-major of the 25th Regiment of Foot . |
| 8 | Whereas the 1832 Act helped ensure the dominance of the House of Commons within the formal political process , the passage of the Reform Act of 1867 began a process of the transfer of power from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 9 | Here German numerical superiority of 2:1 made a hole in the line that could be only inadequately plugged . |
| 10 | He then moved to London , and at the age of twenty-one got a job as attendant and bowler at the White Conduit Club in Islington . |
| 11 | Now , The Cheaper Sex had been out in the States for some weeks , and it seemed as if everyone under the age of twenty-one wanted a copy . |
| 12 | The Conservative government of 1979 represented a break with the post-war Keynesian consensus in economic management . |
| 13 | Max Pechstein 's painting ‘ Sunset ’ of 1929 provided a surprise success , selling to the USA for more than double its estimate at DM440,000 ( £176,000 ; $281,600 ) . |
| 14 | The treaty of 1259 transformed a Gascon allod into a fief , and extended the French kingdom , for the first time , as far as the Pyrenees . |
| 15 | Parkes ' Chemical Catechism of 1806 had a frontispiece of apparatus , engraved on glass with fluoric acid ; in the fourth edition ( 1810 ) this was replaced by a plate of the laboratory of the Surrey Institution , a less-successful version of the Royal Institution ; in later editions Parkes substituted a laboratory which a gentleman might copy for himself . |
| 16 | The Labour government of 1964–70 made a number of changes , therefore . |
| 17 | The Glengomley father of three transformed a wilderness beside his home at Mill Grange into a delightful flower bed . |
| 18 | Economic indicators from the RF State Statistics Committee reported in Ekonomika i zhizn issue 17 , April 1992 , showed that in all sectors the first quarter of 1992 showed a fall in output compared with the similar period in 1991 . |
| 19 | The third edition of 1740 contained a statement by nine residents of Petersfield that she was indeed the author . |
| 20 | It was in part to answer these questions that the California State Legislature in the Autumn of 1976 passed a law called the Natural Death Act . |
| 21 | The defendant did not pay , and on 30 May 1990 , more than six years after completion of the works but less than six years from the service of the demands , the local authority , pursuant to section 10(3) of the Act of 1957 issued a summons in the county court seeking payment . |
| 22 | And seven out of ten declared a willingness to pay higher electricity bills if necessary . |
| 23 | The Gascon campaign of 1242–3 proved a turning-point in his career . |
| 24 | Young men who had a maximum oral hygiene index of 6 had a risk of dying 3.4 times higher than those who had a hygiene index of 0 . |
| 25 | St George Jackson Mivart 's Genesis of Species of 1871 offered a cornucopia of anti-Darwinian arguments based on the claim that evolution must be something more than a haphazard process of adaptation . |
| 26 | On the broad front , the oil crisis of 1973 produced a climate far less favourable to wholesale redevelopment . |
| 27 | A BOY OF five survived a ferry tragedy which killed his brother and sister yesterday — because he cried . |
| 28 | For fifty years the precise form of the subsidies varied : that of 1513 combined a tax on rank for the nobles with an income or property tax for commoners ; that of 1514 taxed wages as well as landed incomes and property ; in 1540 only those with landed incomes or property above £20 had to pay . |
| 29 | The spring of 1951 saw a boycott of public transport and a general strike in Barcelona , and a strike in the mining , ship-building and steel sectors of the Basque Country . |
| 30 | The middle of 1989 witnessed a backlash by Israeli settlers in the West Bank , instigated mostly by radical settlers reacting against the continuing US-Palestinian dialogue . |