Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noades stormed out after eight clubs blocked the proposed £13million Bass sponsorship deal and six other club representatives followed him . |
| 2 | But in 1986 Virani sold the little beer-maker for £25 million — only to buy it back again in 1988 for £8 million less . |
| 3 | In September 1861 Valuev wrote a long paper on the progress of emancipation which concluded by acknowledging that " Sometimes the need arises to legitimize things which have not been and could not have been envisaged by a law " . |
| 4 | The 1980 WIRS contained an identical question on the use of fixed-term contract workers as did the 1984 survey ( the question on the use of agency workers was not consistent ) . |
| 5 | Only eight districts had a computerised information system that incorporated information from assessments . |
| 6 | Eight opposition partiescalled a general strike on Nov. 22 to protest against the government 's announcement on Nov. 5 that the country 's first democratic elections , originally set for the end of November , were being postponed until April 27 , 1993 |
| 7 | In 1971 Hick published a longer account of his own ideas in Arguments for the Existence of God . |
| 8 | In 1755 Bach made a decisive break with the inward-looking Lutheran traditions of his forebears by travelling to Italy , possibly in the company of an Italian lady singer , where he took counterpoint lessons with Padre Martini in Bologna , composed several Roman Catholic church works , and secured a Milanese patron , Count Agostino Litta , through whose efforts he became ‘ second organist ’ at Milan cathedral in 1760 . |
| 9 | In 1935 Humphrys left the public service and embarked on a career in the City . |
| 10 | In support of this suggestion the same workers ( Shattil et al , 1977 ) found that platelets from patients with Type 2 hyperlipoproteinaemia had a higher cholesterol/phospholipid ratio and other workers have found an elevated platelet-free cholesterol in patients with the same condition ( Miettinen , 1974 ) . |
| 11 | Alec also owns Mooney of Kerrville , Texas , and that is where the TBM 700 story started a few years ago . |
| 12 | He had cause to be ; a number of the clergy who compiled the 1801 Returns saw the improving larger farmer as a mixed blessing , likely to be more interested in maximising his profits than in keeping prices reasonable , ‘ the cause of the dearness of Butcher 's meat , cheese , etc. etc … . it destroys the comforts of the lower class of society ’ . |
| 13 | Measurement of B 1 2 values showed a high rate of abnormality . |
| 14 | In an address to foreign ambassadors at the end of 1985 Gorbachev underlined the Soviet readiness to search for ‘ just solutions jointly with other countries ’ to conflicts in various regions and ‘ to participate where necessary , in respective guarantees ’ . |
| 15 | In 1985 CND made the proposed new cruise missile base at Molesworth in Cambridgeshire the target for their Easter protests . |
| 16 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |
| 17 | In 1885 Balmer discovered a striking numerological relationship between the frequencies of the most prominent lines . |
| 18 | Some 700 religious leaders and parliamentarians from around 30 countries attended a Global Forum on Environment and Development for Survival in Moscow on Jan. 15-19 . |
| 19 | In their last financial years , only 39 FT-SE 100 companies ' audit fees increased above the rate of inflation ; 25 companies ' audit fees were cut from 1990 to 1991 ; 30 companies paid the same amount ; and the fees of six increased at a level below the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | The Foreign Affairs Committee statement on 2 December gave the initial response from the European Community . |
| 21 | More than 25000 visitors crammed the 500 plus stands on the first day of the show , in Ghent , to look at new developments in materials science , biotechnology , microelectronics and engineering . |
| 22 | On Sept. 12 Aquino ordered an indefinite ceasefire in Manila and the earthquake-hit northern areas — Baguio City and the provinces of Benguet , Mountain and Neuva Vizcaya — with a view to expanding it later . |
| 23 | The statement made by the right hon. Gentleman on 2 July included the following two sentences : ’ At present advice and assistance but not representation are available to those whose means qualify them under the legal aid green form scheme . |
| 24 | Banks were closed on Jan. 29-30 , but on Jan. 30 Cavallo ordered the financial markets to be reopened , with the austral to be restricted within a fixed fluctuation band of between 8,000 and 10,000 to the dollar , backed up by Central Bank reserves . |
| 25 | The 1972 reform strengthened the local professional bureaucracy and a bureaucracy that is made stronger is unlikely to resist any opportunity to grow . |
| 26 | Those adopted before the age of 2 years had an average IQ as high as 96 , while those adopted later scored around 80 . |
| 27 | At first this was forthcoming , social stability mattering for more than religious principle , but the next forty years saw a growing split in the ranks of the Sussex leaders as Puritanism spread and the remaining Catholics came under suspicion for their dual allegiances . |
| 28 | A team of 123 competitors and 22 officials made the long trip after much media criticism of the small size of the original allocation of places , particularly for athletics . |
| 29 | In the mid-1860s Dostoevsky developed a marked tendency to fuss about the relation between real life and fiction , between the goings-on in the newspapers and what he was saying or wanted to say in his novels . |
| 30 | So sixty-four dealers packed the cavernous 7th Regiment Armory on Park Avenue with the best of Soho and 57th Street , giving less experienced or timid buyers easy access to everything from Old Master drawings to contemporary sculpture . |