Example sentences of "[prep] [num] and [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She taught English , mainly in teacher training colleges , becoming vice-principal of one and then Principal of Charlotte Mason College , Ambleside until 1970 . |
| 2 | He joined the bank as an accountant in 1881 , and rose to become managing director in 1898 and also chairman from 1908 to 1919 . |
| 3 | Some Conservatives , astonishingly enough , had even visualized the return to the Treasury of Roy Jenkins , a Labour minister until 1976 and now President of the European Commission in Brussels . |
| 4 | He joined William Jenkins , appointed chief organizing agent in 1911 and previously district agent for the Midlands Liberal Unionists . |
| 5 | The prosecution finally dropped its charges when Robert McFarlane , National Security Adviser in 1983-85 and thus North 's superior , who was brought before Gesell on Sept. 11 as a test case to decide whether proceedings should continue , declared that North 's congressional testimony had a " very powerful impact " on him and " coloured " evidence that he gave at the original trial . |
| 6 | His son of the first marriage , Thomas Bowen Kitchin , apprenticed to his father in 1754 and also hydrographer to the king , had already inherited the stock-in-trade . |
| 7 | Under Labour , the best example is Denis Healey who was Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and then Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 . |