Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By January of 1802 a fence of quick had been planted all round the site and John Wing reported that the foundations were dug out and in part laid . |
| 2 | In December of 1988 a Judge of the High Court surprisingly ruled that the simplified and common sense rule which protects the footpaths of the country did not protect waterways . |
| 3 | Exports were calculated based on an exchange rate of 123.77 yen in February against 125.59 a year ago . |
| 4 | In Glamorgan in 1965 a company responsible for the collapse of a bridge was acquitted of manslaughter but the defence apparently never questioned whether a company can be guilty of manslaughter . |
| 5 | At Cambrai in 1076 a Cathar who had been judged heretical but not sentenced was being held in the local jail . |
| 6 | In Germany in 1906 a department was set up in the foreign ministry to administer the Reichsschulfonds , money destined for the support of German schools abroad : there , as in Italy , there was a strong feeling that the national language must be kept alive among the large emigrant communities now established overseas . |
| 7 | At Middlesbrough in 1829 a syndicate of six Quakers bought a site of five hundred acres beside the Tees , and created their planned town upon the empty farmland , drawing their straight lines and making their rectangles without hindrance from any legal or physical obstacle . |
| 8 | She took up with Oz at 14 a week . |
| 9 | Figures show 13,891 crimes committed in Darlington in 1991 a rise of 150pc on the 5,536 in 1979 . |
| 10 | In April of 1925 a vacancy for the post of superintendent nurse was advertised and the appointment went to Miss May W. Hall , who was 32 years old , and had been the assistant tutor and deputy superintendent nurse at St.James ' Hospital , Chester . |
| 11 | With sales of TCP/IP at 2000 a month , Unipalm hopes to ship 200 Mail-it copies . |