Example sentences of "[art] [num] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Existing NCR 3450 and 3550 server users will be able to upgrade from the 80486 via a board swap .
2 She was approached by talking book company chief Clive Stanhope who tells me : ‘ I met Julie when she was in rep in the 60s in a comedy called The City Madam — she was marvellous but the play has n't been performed since . ’
3 The distinctly old-fashioned romance is tweaked into the 90's by a spot of gratuitous nudity and a bizarre courting scene in which the lovers drop trousers and urinate together .
4 Lacking the elaborate Go-motion system of rods and computer control that Tippett had devised at ILM for the dragon in Dragonslayer ( 1981 ) , intended to create a slight blur as each single-frame shot was made ( since in real motion the subject moves fractionally in the one-fiftieth of a second for which one frame is exposed ) , they simply shook the puppet a bit each time .
5 With support for the 88000 as a system architecture dwindling to a few hardy companies , a core 88open unit will continue to service their requirements , testing and branding system software and applications .
6 They use the 80860 as a vector processor for complementary co-operative processing , explains Parsys 's commercial director Ian Coburn , who goes on to stress that the company has no plans to use the Intel processor as a replacement for the delayed T9000 .
7 This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary .
8 In the event , Gothic was succeeded in the 1890s by a variety of new styles .
9 Mark Moncrieff gave Gala a lifeline when he raced in from the 22 for a try which Jim Maitland converted .
10 The first thing to do is forget about the six for a minute .
11 By December 1961 the Fouchet committee , which met independently of EEC institutions , had devised a plan that aimed to build up cultural , defence and foreign policy co-operation among the Six in a Union of States .
12 All these bits are changed quite simply in the 44 with a spanner and locking pin , while the smaller 88 uses a C-spanner and fingers .
13 The graveyard of the modest little church at Chapel-le-Dale is the last resting place of the many men who died from illness and disease during the construction of the Ribblehead railway viaduct in the 1870s as a result of the privations they suffered .
14 This journey , which seems to involve a plan to deal in drugs , takes the three to a ghost town where the others become separated from Lockett .
15 I think we 're gon na struggle with the three in a day on the twenty foot .
16 It fell still more sharply from the mid-1870s as a result of severe agricultural depression due to a decline in demand for British produce , and increased imports of cheap food from abroad .
17 , US steam coal prices may rise by nearly 25 per cent from the mid-1990s as a result of the US Clean Air Act of 1990 .
18 Systems theory developed in the 1940s as a explanation of human behaviour which took account of the important impact other people have on the individual .
19 His efforts to stimulate industry in Portugal , largely by the setting-up in the 1760s of a number of privileged and mainly foreign-owned enterprises , owed more to the Colbertian attitudes of late-seventeenth century France than to any economic theories of his own day .
20 Small schemes were created in the 1970s as a result of an Inland Revenue concession but once these government proposals are enacted that concession will become history .
21 Rhino numbers have declined by 90 per cent since the 1970s as a result of being hunted for their horn .
22 The debate over mandatory fees continued throughout the 1970s with a report dealing with architects ' services from the Monopolies and Mergers Commission acting as a catalyst for eventual change .
23 The Conservatives have reversed the trends established in the 1970s of a narrowing of both income and wealth distribution .
24 A related analysis concentrates more narrowly on the decline in employment in the manufacturing sector over the 1970s against a background of low growth , inflation and rising unemployment [ Singh , 1977 ] .
25 At the Moscow Air Show in August CIS design house Roks Aero displayed a full-scale mock-up of the T-101 Gratch ( Raven ) , a radically redesigned monoplane version of the An-2 with a turboprop engine , clearly intended as a competitor for the Cessna Caravan I. A prototype of the twelve-seater is being built in a Moscow factory previously used for MiG-29 assembly .
26 And for the ninety-nine without a vocation ?
27 The trench warfare of the early 1980s was replaced by more subtle forms of guerrilla conflict , in which the guiding principles are no longer so straightforward , yet the consequences of change may be rather more significant , to the extent that the '80s as a whole might justifiably be seen as a period of structural change .
28 Bob Roberts himself is a monster never quite accessible to the cameras or us , vilifiable only by off-the-cuff remarks ( ‘ Do n't take crack , kids … it 's a ghetto drug ’ ) , and opposed only by Bugs Raplin ( Esposito ) , a wired outsider-hack linking him to every scandal of the '80s in a string of fact-filled rants .
29 He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer .
30 But Elgar 's pomposity and circumstance , and Galsworthy 's saga are still very much with us and the " Teddy Boy " style of dress reappeared in the fifties as a sort of atavistic flashback .
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