Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johannitsa threatened the pope with accepting coronation from the patriarch of Constantinople : in 1203 Johannitsa submitted to the Holy See , the legate bestowed the pallium on the archbishop of Trnovo as primate and in November 1204 crowned Johannitsa king of the Bulgars and Wallachians . |
| 2 | For instance , restriction of the opportunity for reproduction in Drosophila to 3–6-day-old flies for 120 generations resulted in a fall in the late but not the early-life fecundity of females in these ’ r' lines relative to that of females of ’ K' lines where adults of any age could breed . |
| 3 | The first was in March , when eight bombs fell on the outskirts of the village , killing one person and wounding fourteen others , and damaging the convent in which the Dominican nuns lived . |
| 4 | Castleford rallied quickly however , and a third try in eight minutes arrived after a mistake under a high kick by Chris Bibb . |
| 5 | The 1980 pictures looked like a stacked combination of flat images . |
| 6 | In 1629 Hobbes returned to the Continent on a second tour , as tutor to the son of Sir Gervase Clinton . |
| 7 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 8 | On Aug. 2 Baker met with a Palestinian delegation in East Jerusalem led by Faisal al-Husseini , who was widely regarded as the unofficial PLO representative in Jerusalem . |
| 9 | Perfusion of the stomach with 25% ethanol for 30 minutes led to the formation of grossly visible injury , which covered 8.6 ( 1.9 ) % ( n=6 ) of the area of the glandular mucosa , as had been previously reported . |
| 10 | In his electoral address of February 1985 Gorbachev returned to the European theme , regretting the loss of impetus that had occurred since the signature of the Helsinki Final Act ten years earlier and expressing the hope that West Europeans would not allow ‘ our common home ’ to be converted into a testing-ground for American doctrines of ‘ limited ’ nuclear war . |
| 11 | In 1323–5 Ramsey worked as a mason at St Stephen 's chapel in Westminster Palace , but seems to have been identical with the Master William de Ramesseye in charge of works at Norwich Cathedral in 1326–31 . |
| 12 | In his first address to the nation as Prime Minister on June 22 Rao concentrated on the country 's economy , which he said was in a state of crisis . |
| 13 | Around 1560 Millbottom consisted of a corn mill under the control of a Stroud clothier , William Webb . |
| 14 | Lille 's mayor confirmed an agreement with Tour de France organisers for Lille to stage the prologue on 2 July followed by the first stage to Armentieres the next day . |
| 15 | In a triumph for the centre and right , the chief victors were the CEDA ( 117 seats ) and the Radicals ( 104 ) ; some forty seats went to the extreme right of Carlists and Alfonsists . |
| 16 | Wimbledon must have lost about 30 balls cannoned over the stand roof . |
| 17 | Defying the security cordon around the diplomatic area of Tirana , some 800 Albanians swarmed into the Italian mission and more than 500 into the French embassy ; smaller groups entered the Greek , Turkish , Hungarian and Czechoslovak missions . |
| 18 | The highest initial 187 Os/ 188 Os recorded in the picrite basalts are within the range recorded for OIB , and therefore consistent with a sub-lithospheric , plume-related , origin . |
| 19 | In September 1972 Kalb applied to the Forge Foundation for funds , and in his application described the geology of the Hadar region of Ethiopia . |
| 20 | Large anti-war demonstrations followed the outbreak of the land war on Feb. 24 , when a total of 50,000 protesters marched through the streets in Madrid and Barcelona demanding an immediate ceasefire . |
| 21 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 22 | On the allotted day , some forty people crowded into an upstairs office at Vernon Yard . |
| 23 | Fifty-three patients participated in the rehabilitation programme and 63 acted as controls . |
| 24 | An estimated 2,000,000 people participated in a referendum on Puerto Rico 's future relationship with the United States , held on Dec. 8 . |
| 25 | Another centrepiece of the government 's emergency legislation is the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1974 ( redrawn in 1976 and 1984 ) , passed in the wake of the Birmingham pub bombings of November 1974 , in which twenty-one people died as a result of two bomb blasts . |
| 26 | After his re-election in 1972 Nixon asked for the resignations of all non career employees in the executive branch and took steps to ensure that all those appointed or reappointed were loyal to him and his policies . |
| 27 | Reports from Tehran on 22 September told of an attack that day on the city 's Mehrabad airport , which , like a number of others around the world , was used partly for civil and partly for military purposes . |
| 28 | On July 19th 1821 Green dined at the Salutation Inn at Ambleside , drank the health of the newly-crowned George IV , and sang ‘ God Save the King ’ twice . |
| 29 | State banks , much to their chagrin , have been ordered to provide cheap insurance for pilgrims to Mecca : some 800 Indonesians died in the haj last year . |
| 30 | The 1980–1 and 1985 riots resulted in a wide variety of responsive measures , emanating from both central and local government , as well as other agencies . |